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Coming of Age, Toru Fujibayashi

Exhibit Dates: May 16th - July 18th, 2025

Toru Fujibayashi was born in Vancouver February 23, 1942, an enemy alien destined for internment in the Slocan Valley. He would go on to brief stays in Popoff, Bay Farm, then settling in Slocan City.

In 1963 Toru enrolled at the Alberta College of Art, then in the late 60’s, in a time of incredible life altering changes, obtained a Masters in Fine Arts from East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas. 

Once back in the West Kootenays in Nelson working at Kootenay Forest Mill and substitute teaching, he secured a position at Okanagan College, Kelowna, where he became a co-founder of the Fine Arts Dept. Toru also taught classes at the Penticton First Nations Band with other teaching stints with Cariboo College, University of Victoria, Kootenay School of Arts, Arctic College, Nunavut. 

After much soul searching and encouragement, he began devoting his life to art. Over the years Toru has participated in numerous individual and group shows and sculptors’ symposiums in Loveland, Colorado, New Zealand, the Okanagan, and two in China. He was an Artist in Residence , Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, N.M. Toru’s sculptures, drawings, paintings are represented in private and public collections in Canada and internationally.

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