Esther Shimazu

Esther Shimazu is an American sculptor who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1957.

[1] She is best known for her stoneware sculptures of bald, nude chunky Asian women constructed with hand building techniques.

She received a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Purchase Award, 2001, and an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, 1995.

[2] In 2020, Shimazu participated in a Zoom webinar offered by the John Natsoulas Center for the Arts called "Learn how to build a dog" where she interacted with viewers while constructing a ceramic dog.

[3] Shimazu's work was included in the 2021 Hawai‘i Craftsmen Annual Statewide Exhibition at the Downtown Art Center.