Taiko Chandler is a Colorado-based artist whose work spans printmaking, installation, and sculpture. Born in Nagano, Japan, she trained and worked as a nurse in Japan and the UK before moving to the United States. Chandler’s professional artistic practice began in 2011 at the Art Students League of Denver.
Drawing on lived experience, multicultural influences, and the natural world, her practice engages hands-on process to explore how memory, time, and perception are carried in physical form. Working with paper, fabric, Tyvek, bamboo, and salvaged objects, pressing, stitching, bending, pinning, and binding elements into tactile forms that reveal impermanence, transformation, and material memory across the passage of time.
Chandler has exhibited widely in Colorado, including a solo show at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the Denver Botanic Gardens, and the Littleton Museum. Nationally, her work has appeared in group exhibitions and print fairs across the U.S., and internationally in a group exhibition in Japan. In 2023, her installation Blue Surge, created on site from 150 monotype prints on Tyvek, was featured in Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has held residencies at RedLine Contemporary Art Center (2020–2022) and Anderson Ranch Arts Center (2024), and her work has been featured in Hyperallergic (reviewed by Kealey Boyd), Printmaking Today, and A Tale of Two Balconies (Smithsonian Institution & Giles Ltd., 2024).