Lexi Fujita

Lexi Fujita (She/Her), is a 4th generation Japanese-American interdisciplinary artist born and raised on the island of Oahu, Hawai’i currently based between New York and Hawai’i. Her recent works deal with assemblage, textile, wearable art, and printmaking. Combining traditional processes and challenging certain techniques. Experimentation through lei making and lauhala weaving practices in textiles and translating personal archival material into wearable works. Drawing deeply on personal narratives, Fujita explores the Hawai’i culture that raised her and the Japanese culture that is inherently part of her, prioritizing discovery of self and development of cultural respect and understanding for both places. As an artist that works in the area of both fashion and art, she emphasizes the intersection of the two not being a part of two separate worlds, but within both. Building together a community and implementing the practice of including a diverse set of voices to influence and be incorporated within her work. She is currently studying for her BFA in studio art at New York University and has been a young designer-in-residence at Materials for the Arts.