KAY SEKIMACHI

Kay Sekimachi lives and works in Berkeley. Her work has been exhibited widely, and often draws comparisons to her friend and contemporary, Ruth Asawa. In 2024, a comprehensive survey of her work titled Kay Sekimachi: Weaving Traditions was presented at the SFO Museum. In 2021, BAMPFA, Berkeley presented Kay Sekimachi: Geometries, and in 2016, the exhibition Kay Sekimachi: Student, Teacher, Artist, was presented at the de Young Museum, San Francisco. Her work is held in the permanent collections of Smithsonian America Art Museum, Washington D.C., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, de Young Museum, San Francisco, SFMoMA, San Francisco, Musée Des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota; Oakland Museum, California, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, Detroit Art Institute, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, among others.