DRUE KATAOKA STUDIOS
The work is alive.
Reflective art that responds to the light, the weather, and whoever stands before it.
Reflective art that responds to the light, the weather, and whoever stands before it.
Sculptures designed to think like neural networks — signal moving through weighted layers of mirror, light, color, imagery.
Each Ambrosia is unique and made to order. Every reflective layer can carry text or imagery of personal or philosophical significance. Commissioned and shipped worldwide, each piece begins with consultations between artist and collector to uncover and shape a message of profound artistic and personal meaning.
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Revelation and concealment, in mirror.
Look inside, look around: a hidden world of imagery and meaning opens to those who come close. Each Magic Box rewards curiosity, exploration, and proximity, revealing what lies beyond the obvious.
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Cut cloud-forms drift across mirrored surfaces, holding the environment, playing with light, and composing living cubist portraits of whoever stands before the work.
LEARN MOREDrue Kataoka Studios has been at the forefront of digital technologies in art for years.
A recognized leader in A.I., Drue is a recipient of the Women in GENAI Innovator Award. Her A.I. artworks have been featured globally, including in recent high-profile initiatives by OpenAI and Mastercard. She serves on the World Economic Forum taskforce on agentic A.I.
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One-of-a-kind works in mirror-polished stainless steel, commissioned by some of the world's most prominent art collectors. Works at this scale are always architected in close correspondence with their patrons.
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An audio-visual artwork made with Lucasfilm's immersive studio — and sold at auction by Phillips.
Drawing on the 3,500-year-old Weighing of the Heart rite from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the work weighs the heart against a feather — a call for introspection among today's technologists, leaders, and opinion-makers. Technically and artistically, it remains unparalleled.
A rocket at take-off that is also a single sumi-e brushstroke — the hinge between the studio's Zen roots and its work at the edge of technology.
Created for the first zero-gravity art exhibit in space, the painting was separated from itself: one part flew to the International Space Station, one remained on Earth as mission control. Thanks to relativistic time dilation, the traveling piece is a fraction of a second younger and the reunited work is two different ages at once: a conceptual portrait of a father and son who were both astronauts.
The practice begins generations back — a Samurai lineage, and a lifetime of sumi-e ink painting, a 3,000-year art form originally practiced by Zen monks and the Samurai. That discipline of the brush and the openness of the negative space between the brush strokes are the origin of every reflective artwork today.
Begin with a conversation — place, light, and meaning. The studio undertakes a limited number of commissions each year.
BEGIN A COMMISSIONNew works, exhibitions, and studio notes — a few times a year. No noise.