Living Here

Maya Fuji was born in Kanazawa, Japan. She is a self-taught artist who shifted careers midway through her MBA program to pursue her passion for visual arts and painting. She immigrated to Berkeley, California at an early age, and spent time moving back and forth between Kanazawa and the United States. She currently lives and works out of San Francisco. Fuji has had solo exhibitions in both Japan and America. She received the Innovate Grant, was nominated for the SFMoMA SECA Award, and was a finalist for the Foundwork Artist Prize in 2023. In 2024 she received a San Francisco Arts Commission Artist Grant and was an artist-in-residence at Wassaic Projects.