Tamiko Potts
My name is Tamiko Potts (she/they) and I'm a Toronto-based, queer Japanese Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans film, visual art, photography, and poetry. My art explores identity, resilience, and memory, often through the lens of nature’s cycles and transformation.
Enclosed are four paintings from my visual art series, "Between Emotion and Stillness", that explores the abstract expression of acrylic pouring with the deliberate minimalism of Japanese brush painting.
Recently my documentary, "When the Blossoms Fade" about my mother’s experience in the Japanese Canadian internment camps—won Best Canadian Documentary Short at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival and the companion poem was featured in the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s exhibit "Shifting Skies, Changing Forms".
I'm currently studying art psychotherapy at the Canadian International Institute of Art Therapy and was selected for the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s 2026 Digital Arts Residency.
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