KATSU is a Japanese – American new media artist based in San Francisco. His works involve technology, public interventions, commentary on commercialism, privacy, and digital culture. As a result, his practice includes drone painting, sculpture, digital media, conceptual works, NFTs, and video games.  His visual and digital projects question notions of reality, fiction, and futurism by conceptually integrating ideas of vandalism with commercialism and technology to comment on identity and authorship. KATSU was an Eyebeam research fellow with Free Art and Technology Lab, a collective of creative technologists and hackers (2007-2015).  In 2016 he was a Google creative technologist working on VR and machine learning projects. In 2021 KATSU launched a series of high visibility, multidisciplinary collaborations with Virgil Abloh including a video game, fashion line, and site-specific installations.

Select solo exhibitions include; BITS at Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco (2021); DOT at The Hole, New York City (2020); DRONE at Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles (2018), Memory Foam at The Hole, New York City (2018); AI Criminals at an unknown location, San Francisco (2017); and Remember the Future at The Hole, New York City (2015).

KATSU’s work has been written about in Wired, New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, Artforum, Artnet, Wallstreet Journal, CNN, Verge, and Tech Crunch.   He holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design, NY (2005).