Meet our June 2025 AiR/Newport artist:
June AiR: Taro Takizawa
Taro Takizawa is an artist who focuses on printmaking, wall vinyl installations, drawings and 2D designs.
Born in Japan, he has been making images connecting what he has experienced in Japan where he grew up and, and in the U.S. His works contain both western and eastern aesthetics with appreciation of traditional printmaking processes and mark making. He is fascinated with blending the boundaries of contemporary studio practice and traditional processes, printmaking and installations, influenced by traditional Japanese patterns from textile designs, architecture and crafts.
He received with his BFA with a printmaking emphasis from Central Michigan University in 2011, and MFA in printmaking from Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts in 2017. Takizawa has exhibited nationally and internationally such as at Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, PARADOX European Fine Art Forum and its exhibition at CK Zamek in Poznan, Poland; and ArtPrize 10 at Grand Rapids Public Museum, LUX Center for the Arts, Ty Pawb in Wales and China Printmaking Museum. And recently went to artist residencies at Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in Ithaca, NY, Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland, OH, and GoggleWorks in Reading, PA. He currently teaches at University of Wilmington in North Carolina.