Orange County based artist Lily Tsutsumida is both a multidisciplinary artist and a professional art therapist who specializes in art-based methods of meaning-making and personal growth. Lily’s work as an artist is driven by two distinct passions. The first is her love of exploring new materials and fabrication processes, which lends a distinct diversity to her portfolio. The second is her fascination with the joys and pains of the human experience, a focus that is interconnected with her work as a therapist. Lily uses a broad palette of media in her articulations of memory, loss and personal narrative, incorporating woodwork, assemblage, casting, drawing, photo transfer and mixed media techniques into a synthesis that speaks to the layered, gritty and rich nature of the human condition.

Lily has exhibited in group shows at Los Angeles Makery, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Chemers Gallery, Acme 62, Greenly Art Space, Location 1980, World Gallery and Studio 18. Solo installations of her work have been featured in local businesses including Escape Salon and Moongoat Coffee.

She holds an MA in Marital & Family Therapy and Art Therapy from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California and a BA in Art from Pomona College in Claremont, California.