Pasadena Art Center College of Design 1994-1998
Pasadena City College Pasadena, California Graphics Design / Fine Art 1992-1994
AWARDS & HONORS
2012 Research Fellow, Institute for Arts and Olfaction, Los Angeles, California
2007 Columbia University Medical Center, Community Relations, New York, NY
2006 2nd Annual International Artists Festival in Thailand, Bangkok
2006 28th Annual Wallworks Juried Competition LA Artcore, LA Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Public Art RFQ LAPD Headquarters, LA County Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Soft Machine: DNA, USC IGM Art Gallery, Los Angeles
2011 A Dream Deferred – The Intersection of Jewish, Latino, and Japanese-American Histories- Boyle Heights (circa 1940’s), Bleicher Gallery, La Brea
2009 One Piece, Bleicher / Golightly
2008 3000 Worlds in a Moment, LA Artcore, Brewery Annex. Los Angeles, CA
2008 Down By Law, Julie Rico Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 Corpus Xeroxysm 3, Tompkins Square Library, East Village, NYC
2005 Corpus Xeroxysm 2, INRI Studios, LA
2004 Corpus Xeroxysm 1, 611 Studio, LA
PUBLICATIONS
LInteriors. 2012
Angeleno Magazine, Arts Issue. 2012
Acorn Newspaper. 2011
Studio Guest Interview (A Dream Deferred), by Tony Valdez, Fox 11 News Television. March 27, 2011
Los Angeles Times, Thursday Pick of the Week. 2011
Sowing Dreams, Cultivating Lives. University of California Press, 2009
Los Angeles Times, Sunday Home Section. 2009
Rafu Shimpo Newspaper. October 2008
Shelter Magazine. 2007
Upper Manhattan Arts Stroll, by Mike Fitelson, Manhattan Times. 2007
Artists at Work, by Carla Zanoni, Westside The Spirit. August 30, 2007
In a Doorway, a Gentle Call to Arms (Pollack Equation), by Carla Zanoni, New York Times. August 19, 2007
The Mathematics of Jackson Pollock on a Street Corner in Inwood, by Rachel Wolff, New York Magazine. August 6, 2007
New York Magazine, Art Candy. July 2007
Manhattan Times, Inwood Edition, by Mike Fitelson. July 12, 2007
Cal State Fullerton Inside Magazine. May 2007
Sowing Dreams, Cultivating Lives: Nikkei Farmers in Pre-World War II Orange County, by Michiko Tamura, Rafu Shimpo. February 10, 2007
Los Angeles Magazine, Design Issue. 2007
Let Go Magazine, Issue #2. 2007
At Home Magazine. 2006
2nd Annual International Arts Festival in Thailand, Catalog. Summer 2006
Canvassing the Future, Lifescape Magazine. 2006
Art LA, Catalog. January 2006
Mike Saijo, by Mia Taylor, The Book LA. Spring 2005
Group Exhibitions
2012 Print x Print, Bleicher Gallery La Brea
2011 Flight Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2011 IG’NITE: A study from street level, Bangkok, Thailand
2011 Auction by the Bay, Bleicher/Golightly
2010 Anachronious Mind Tree, Bleicher Gallery, La Brea
2010 Vignettes, Bleicher / Golightly
2010 Interactive Art Exhibit, Hamilton Galleries
2010 Diversity in Development, The Loft at Liz’s
2010 It’s a Numbers Game, The Loft at Liz’s
2009 Diverted Destruction Part 2, The Loft at Liz’s
2009 A Long Long Summer, S1F Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 Fresh Silent Auction MOCA, Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles
2009 Human Botany, Julie Rico Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles
2008 Mike Saijo: Lost and Found + Kiyoshi Nakazawa, LA Artcore, Brewery Annex
2007 Cheap and Plentiful, curated by Mark Cousin, 207 Gallery, Inwood, NY
2007 History of Conspiracy, curated by Mike Saijo, 207 Gallery, Inwood, NY
2007 Gen Arts Biscuit Company Loft Building, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Micro Gestalt, curated by Airom Bleicher, 207 Gallery, Inwood, NY
2007 Sowing Dreams, Cultivating Lives: Nikkei Farmers in Pre-World War II Orange County, Orange County Museum of Agriculture and Nikkei Heritage, Cal State Fullerton, CA
2007 Micro Gestalt, Orphanage Gallery, Silverlake, CA
2006 Two Person Exhibition, Gallery A, Los Feliz, CA
2006 LA Artcore Annual Benefit Auction Union, Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Winter Show, 207 Gallery, Inwood, NY
2006 Lust for Life, 207 Gallery, Inwood, NY
2006 University of Technology Bangkok, Thailand
2006 Ramajangala University of Technology Rattanakosin Pho Chan Campus 2nd Annual International Arts Festival, Thanvaburi, Bangkok
2006 Best in Show, deSotoGallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Synthetic Zero, Bronx, NY
2006 Broken Art Long Shadow, 3 Person Show, Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 deSoto Gallery, Art LA, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Winter Salon, Java Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2005 deSoto Gallery, PhotoNY, Metropolitan Pavilion, NY
2005 LA Artcore Wallworks Competition, Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
2005 LA Artfest, Sci-Arc Campus, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Landscape Exhibition, MJ Higgins Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Exhibits Curated by Mike Saijo
2012 OddFellow Hall / Studio, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California
2012 Digital Divide Gallery, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California
2012 Soft Machine: DNA Travelling Installation, Digital Divide Gallery, Los Angeles
2012 Forum on the History of Medicine, USC Institute for Genetic Medicine, Los Angeles
2011 Soft Machine: DNA Travelling Installation, USC Institute for Genetic Medicine, Los Angeles
2011 Soft Machine: DNA Travelling Installation, Bleicher Gallery, Santa Monica
2011 Roots and Wings Project, Co-Curator with Angela Penaredondo, SPARC, Santa Monica
2007 Abstractions, 207 Gallery, Inwood, New York
2007 History of Conspiracy, 207 Gallery, Inwood, New York
Site-Specific Public Works
2012 Digital Divide Café, an internet cafe business art project in Lincoln Heights, LA
2010 Los Angeles Architectural Survey, in a real estate office in Silverlake / Los Feliz, LA
2007 Baudrillard Politics Anime, during an Obama Fundraiser at 207 Gallery, Inwood, NYC
2007 Pollock Equation, installed in front of school doorway in Inwood, NYC
2005 Splendor, founded an “unofficial public art site” where street artists post up their work in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District.
Performances
2012 Yoda’s Brain by Chromatists, TCL London / Los Angeles Exchange Exhibition, LA
2011 Psychic Driving – Sound Performance, Occupy Movement, LA
2011 Everything is Happening at Once – Sound Performance, Bleicher Gallery, LA
2010 History of Riots in Los Angeles – Sound Performance, Bleicher Gallery, LA
2006 D.E.A.D. – Sound Performance, Tompkins Square Library, New York
1997 Entropic Tailspin – Video/Performance, Rose Bowl Parking Lot, Pasadena