Devon Tsuno

Devon Tsuno is an artist and fourth generation Angeleno. His recent spray paint and acrylic paintings, artist’s books, community projects and print installations focus on Japanese American history. Tsuno’s recent solo exhibition Shikata Ga Nai is a yonsei story, a Los Angeles story, indissociable from the complexities of intergenerational and collective trauma, fences and cages, gentrification, displacement, water and labor politics, and how and where we choose to live. Tsuno’s interests have been central to his work with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Topaz Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Hammer Museum, Candlewood Arts Festival and Gallery Lara in Japan. He is a 2017 Santa Fe Art Institute Water Rights Artist-In-Residence, is the 2016 SPArt Community Grantee and was awarded a 2014 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Art. Tsuno is a member of J-TOWN Action と Solidarity and currently is an Assistant Professor of Art at California State University Dominguez Hills. Tsuno is represented by, Residency Art Gallery in Inglewood, CA.

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