Artist Biography
Taiji Terasaki is a Japanese-American artist based in Honolulu whose work intersects contemporary art, science, and environmental advocacy. Working across photography, sculpture, mist projections, and immersive installations, his practice explores themes of memory, ritual, migration, and ecological restoration.
Recent projects include Wings Over Crystalline Landscapes (Kyoto, 2025), Gunjo: Celestial Butterflies (Paris, 2025), and On the Last Day of the World I Would Want to Plant a Tree (Honolulu, 2025), each reflecting his meditative, nature-centered approach. His 2023 installation On Rewilding, developed during a residency on Palmyra Atoll, invited audiences to engage with endangered ecosystems through interactive media. He also presented at the 2022 United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon on art’s role in ocean advocacy.
Terasaki’s work has been featured at Art Basel Miami and Art Basel Paris, as well as nonprofit and civic platforms like AltaSea’s Blue Hour. He has held solo exhibitions at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles and Kojin Kyoto Gallery, highlighting his ongoing engagement with identity, community, and environmental transformation. Earlier works such as REBIRTH and Feeding the Immortals (2017) examined loss and legacy through multimedia ritual, while TRANSCENDIENTS: Immigrant Stories of Place (2019) honored immigrant communities via large-scale public installation and oral histories.
Founder of MakeVisible, a nonprofit supporting experimental creative platforms, Terasaki also serves on the boards of the Honolulu Biennial Foundation and the Terasaki Family Foundation. He lives in Honolulu with his wife and two children.