Drue Kataoka
Drue Kataoka is an artist & technologist & CEO of Drue Kataoka Art Studios, serving some of the world's top collectors in 5 continents and over 30 countries. She is globally known for her highly interactive mirror sculptures transforming the viewer's perception of space-time. The modular artworks in her new Ambrosia series have staggering 84 billion permutations of possible configurations, each creating a slightly different visual experience. Her artwork Up! was featured in the first zero-gravity art exhibit at the International Space Station. She is Artist in Residence for Google VR (Tilt Brush).
Named a Young Global Leader & Cultural Leader of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Drue presented a solo exhibition at the WEF in Davos and has presented at the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos multiple times. She is on the WEF’s Steering Committee on VR/AR/AI for the Creative Economy and is a contributing author to the book Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Drue has been invited to speak in Tokyo, New York, St. Petersburg, Buenos Aires, Oslo, Ulaanbaatar, Abu Dhabi, Yangon, Beijing, Geneva, Puerto Vallarta and more for multiple organizations, corporations and governments.
Passionate about the power of art as a social force, her works have also spear-headed a breadth of social impact initiatives tackling a range of issues from infant mortality, to the rape-kit backlog, to women's empowerment and social justice. After September 11, she endowed the Rotary Foundation Drue Kataoka Art Scholarship, given annually, which has since benefitted 24 students from diverse backgrounds to pursue a career in the arts.
Drue's art has been featured on CNN, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Deutsche Welle, CNBC, CBS, ABC, FoxNews, NY1, Telemundo, Barrons, Wired, Blackbook, Gentry and others. Graduate of Stanford University. She is a recipient of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute Award for her extensive community service.