Taiko is a Denver-based artist who works in printmaking, installation, and more recently sculpture. Taiko was born and raised in Nagano, Japan, and first worked as a nurse, both in Japan and the UK; she has lived in several U.S. cities. Ever since taking her first printmaking class at the Art Students League of Denver in 2011, Taiko has thought of art as a vehicle to express her emotions directly, without the complicating filter of language.
Taiko’s work has been exhibited at galleries, museums, and nonprofit organizations throughout Colorado (including solo show at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver Botanic Gardens), as well as at numerous shows and print fairs across the U.S. Her installation, created on-site from 150 Monotype prints on Tyvek, was part of the “Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence” exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, in 2023.
Taiko has been awarded residencies at RedLine Contemporary Art Center (2020 - 2022) and Anderson Ranch Arts Center (2024).
Her work is part of private and public collections in the U.S. and Japan, including the Cleveland Clinic Art Program, University of Colorado Denver Business School, and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (NY).