The RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce River Kenji Fujimoto as the recipient of the Open Studio Contemporary Printmaking Studio Residency 2023 Career Launcher.
River Kenji Fujimoto is a Japanese-Sicilian, yonsei, emerging multidisciplinary artist and printmaker. Their work combs through the complexities of being mixed race, queer, trans, disabled and a descendant of Japanese Canadian internment camp survivors. Their practice primarily uses relief printmaking techniques and text to explore their relationship as being part of a diaspora and their positionality as a settler for many generations. When not at the studio, they can be found baking, snacking with friends, collecting found objects and spending time with their pet rats.
Website www.riverkenji.format.com
Instagram: @river_makes
River will be awarded a Full Membership with Open Studio ($125 value), a three month access pass to the facilities ($630) to be used in the summer of 2023, $300 in credits to go towards materials, and a flat file rental (value: $54). They will work towards a self-directed final project during their time with Open Studio and give an artist talk at OCAD U in Fall 2023. An artist fee of $300 will be given for the talk.
Open Studio is an Artist-Run Centre dedicated to contemporary print. Open Studio offers accessible, inclusive and affordable printmaking facilities, programs and services for artists and the public from across Canada and abroad. They support artists in the creation and exhibition of contemporary print in an open-minded, safe and collaborative environment. Their vision is to shape the exploration of print as essential, dynamic, and relevant to contemporary culture and creative thought.
Learn more about our Career Launchers at: https://careerlaunchers.format.com