Portrait of Our Future Selves: Drue Kataoka| GP Interview #27

This is the twenty-seventh in a series of interviews with explorers, thinkers, artists, activists and other luminaries around the world, people whose life’s work resonates with our founding principles.

Based in Silicon Valley, our friend Drue Kataoka is an artist-technologist-activist & CEO of Drue Kataoka Art Studios LLC (www.Drue.Net), serving collectors on five continents and in over thirty countries.

Drue creates commissioned artworks in both material art genres such as steel sculpture and Ambrosias as well as in virtual reality. She is known for her signature interactive and reflective visual mazes and experiences, which distort the perception of space-time.

Her artwork Up! was featured in the first zero gravity art exhibit at the International Space Station. Named a Young Global Leader & Cultural Leader of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Drue and I discuss her art and art as political commentary, the unique ways she created and runs her studio, and the problems and opportunities around how art functions in society and who it serves today.

GP: What sent you down the path of dedicating your life to art?

DK: As a kid I loved to create, modify and, often — break things. I spent my early childhood in Tokyo. The…