Stephanie Inagaki 'Eternity' Print Available

Artist: Stephanie Inagaki
Title: Eternity
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 24 x 13 Inches
Edition: 20
Price: $95

Stephanie Inagaki is a Japanese-American artist and metalsmith based in Los Angeles who weaves personal memory, folklore and the female form into haunting charcoal drawings and sculptural wearables. Born in Los Angeles to a Japanese mother and Mexican-American father, she earned a BFA from Boston University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, training that grounded her technical skill yet left room for cultural excavation. Her monochrome portraits depict women, often self-portraits, whose flowing hair transforms into crows, snakes, feathers or kimono silk, symbols she chooses for their layered meaning: crows suggest loyalty, hair stands in for emotional bonds, and foxes echo the trickster spirit Kitsune of her heritage.

By collaging delicate Japanese washi paper onto velvety charcoal passages she creates depth that feels both antique and immediate, a visual equivalent to the way identity accretes over time. Inagaki also founded Miyu Decay, a line of hand-crafted jewelry that extends her mythic vocabulary into brass, silver and gold adornments shaped like tiny talons, vertebrae or crow skulls, allowing wearers to carry her narrative world on the body. Her first solo exhibition Metamorphosis at Century Guild, Los Angeles, sold out, and she continues to show internationally while contributing to the collaborative Temple of Art documentary project alongside peers like David Mack and Bill Sienkiewicz. Through every drawing, necklace or large-scale mixed-media piece, Inagaki invites viewers to confront dualities of life and death, creation and destruction, crafting a personal mythology where strength and vulnerability coexist in elegant, macabre harmony.