Devon Tsuno is a Los Angeles-native. His spray paint and acrylic paintings, installations, and community projects focus on water, native vs. non-native plants, agriculture and Japanese American history.
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Devon Tsuno’s long-term interest in issues of access to public space, fishing and bodies of water in the LA area has been central to his work with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, The Music Center, Theodore Payne Foundation, and the grant love Project.
Tsuno is a 2017 Santa Fe Art Institute Water Rights Artist-In-Residence, is the 2016 SPArt Community Grantee and was awarded a 2014 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Art. Tsuno has exhibited extensively in the US and abroad at the Hammer Museum Venice Beach Biennial, Current: LA Water Public Art Biennial, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Denk Gallery, U.S. Embassy in New Zealand, and Gallery Lara in Tokyo.
His work has been featured in Artillery Magazine, X-TRA Journal and Notes on Looking. He received an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2005 and a BFA from California State University Long Beach in 2003. Tsuno is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at California State University Dominguez Hills where he is also founder/director of the PRAXIS art engagement program.