eryn kimura (she, they) is a mixed media artist, cultural producer, community builder based on the unceded territory of the ramaytush ohlone people (san francisco).

using fragments from print media and found ephemera, eryn composes cacophonous yet fractal visual symphonies - collage - that recontextualize the asian american body and experience in popular culture/memory, turning hegemony on its head. simultaneously, eryn uses collage as play and alchemy, reimagining and archiving ancestral pasts and futures.

in 2023, eryn produced their first short documentary BENKYODO: the last manju shop in j-town (directed by tadashi nakamura and akira boch), which captures the last 6 months of san francisco japantown’s first and last traditional japanese-american confectionery after 115 years of service. the documentary premiered at CAAMFest, and has screened across 50 locales around the country including at the Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF), Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) in New York, and at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in LA.

eryn’s place-based social practice is rooted in the sucka free (san francisco), cross-pollinating intergenerational care, community archiving, afro-asian solidarity, diasporic food ways, and joy.

eryn kimura is a fifth-generation san franciscan and fifth-generation japanese- and chinese-american.

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