Jimi Suzuki (James Hiroshi Suzuki, 1933–2022) was a Japanese American artist whose wide-ranging practice encompassed painting, sculpture, collage, assemblage and ceramics. Born in Yokohama, Japan, he studied privately with artist Yoshio Markino before moving to the United States in the early 1950s. He attended the Portland School of Fine Arts and, on scholarship, the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. In 1958, Suzuki received a Whitney Opportunity Fellowship and exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Suzuki’s early paintings combine Abstract Expressionism with calligraphic forms and qualities associated with traditional Japanese art. Later, his increasingly experimental work incorporated text, found materials, collage, assemblage and ceramics, often engaging social and political concerns. Suzuki taught at University of California, Davis, and other institutions in Northern California, including UC Berkeley, California College of Arts and Crafts and Sacramento State. His work is held in collections including Crocker Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, Corcoran Gallery of Art and National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.