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Mai Ryuno
Socially Engaged Artist & Educator

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Artworks

Works across studio practice, participatory actions, and community-based projects that explore connection, learning, and shared experience across place and time.

Invitation card for the Picnic participatory performance, featuring playful upside-down text referencing the indoor/outdoor reversal.

Invitation card for the Picnic participatory performance, featuring playful upside-down text referencing the indoor/outdoor reversal.

Artist Emily Underwood and a collaborator painting the Monterey Bay mural at Play Full Ground, showing the early stages of the interactive artwork.

Artist Emily Underwood and a collaborator painting the Monterey Bay mural at Play Full Ground, showing the early stages of the interactive artwork.

Guests entering the Play Full Ground studio for Color Full Play, exploring the colorful installation and interacting with artworks and each other.

Guests entering the Play Full Ground studio for Color Full Play, exploring the colorful installation and interacting with artworks and each other.

Guests interacting with the International Market table outside the studio, with the entrance of Play Full Ground visible in the background, showing the neighborhood context of the event.

Guests interacting with the International Market table outside the studio, with the entrance of Play Full Ground visible in the background, showing the neighborhood context of the event.

A wide view of Play Full Ground filled with people of different ages engaging in hands-on art making at multiple stations during the P(Art)Y community event.

A wide view of Play Full Ground filled with people of different ages engaging in hands-on art making at multiple stations during the P(Art)Y community event.

Guests at Play Full Ground interacting with artworks and each other in the studio space during the Welcome! exhibit.

Guests at Play Full Ground interacting with artworks and each other in the studio space during the Welcome! exhibit.

Play Full Ground - Exhibit

Play Full Ground - Exhibit

The artist eating a kiwifruit at home, marking the first performance of the Kiwifruit project and the origin of its title.

The artist eating a kiwifruit at home, marking the first performance of the Kiwifruit project and the origin of its title.

Two artists wearing garments they created for one another, standing together as part of the RfCC collaborative fashion project.

Two artists wearing garments they created for one another, standing together as part of the RfCC collaborative fashion project.

The artist sitting on blue indoor turf surrounded by plush Happy Monterey Sardines, relaxing as if at a beach, colorful and playful scene.

The artist sitting on blue indoor turf surrounded by plush Happy Monterey Sardines, relaxing as if at a beach, colorful and playful scene.

Participants sitting and eating together at the cardboard dining table, engaging in conversation during the interactive installation.

Participants sitting and eating together at the cardboard dining table, engaging in conversation during the interactive installation.

Visitors lying on the Bubble Lounge bubble wrap installation in the courtyard during the day, interacting and relaxing.

Visitors lying on the Bubble Lounge bubble wrap installation in the courtyard during the day, interacting and relaxing.

Participants enjoying a three-course meal collaboratively created in Table for One, part of I Lost My Friend project, 2009–2010, San Francisco.

Participants enjoying a three-course meal collaboratively created in Table for One, part of I Lost My Friend project, 2009–2010, San Francisco.

The artist seated at a table in the Diego Rivera Gallery talking with a visitor as part of the Hello! participatory project, 2010, San Francisco.

The artist seated at a table in the Diego Rivera Gallery talking with a visitor as part of the Hello! participatory project, 2010, San Francisco.

Mai Ryuno interacting with gallery visitors during c-o-n-n-e-c-t, exchanging cards and engaging in conversation.

Mai Ryuno interacting with gallery visitors during c-o-n-n-e-c-t, exchanging cards and engaging in conversation.

Participants interacting and sharing ideas during a weekly Apple Pie Meeting in Fukuoka, Japan.

Participants interacting and sharing ideas during a weekly Apple Pie Meeting in Fukuoka, Japan.

Visitors looking at hanging vertical watercolor paintings at the exhibition Earth — the Boundless Sky and Sea, capturing the scale and arrangement of the works.

Visitors looking at hanging vertical watercolor paintings at the exhibition Earth — the Boundless Sky and Sea, capturing the scale and arrangement of the works.

Overcast gray sky with clouds, photographed in Fukuoka, Japan, exactly one month after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake as a quiet act of remembrance.

Overcast gray sky with clouds, photographed in Fukuoka, Japan, exactly one month after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake as a quiet act of remembrance.

Participants of the 2020 Monterey Bay Women’s March writing names of inspirational women on the suffragette-inspired sash worn by Mai Ryuno.

Participants of the 2020 Monterey Bay Women’s March writing names of inspirational women on the suffragette-inspired sash worn by Mai Ryuno.

Three students gathered in a studio, discussing ideas and smiling, sharing thoughts during a Speak Not So Easy session.

Three students gathered in a studio, discussing ideas and smiling, sharing thoughts during a Speak Not So Easy session.

A participant using water bottles to paint on the artist’s white dress during the Color Me Rainbow performance, transforming it into a colorful collaborative artwork.

A participant using water bottles to paint on the artist’s white dress during the Color Me Rainbow performance, transforming it into a colorful collaborative artwork.

Participatory performance of Untitled (Self Portrait), 2008, guests seated at long table interacting with artist, communal dining in progress, San Francisco.

Participatory performance of Untitled (Self Portrait), 2008, guests seated at long table interacting with artist, communal dining in progress, San Francisco.

Artist Mai Ryuno shaking hands with a gallery visitor, activating the LED lights on her dress during Mode of Interactions performance.

Artist Mai Ryuno shaking hands with a gallery visitor, activating the LED lights on her dress during Mode of Interactions performance.

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