[3] Fujimura graduated cum laude from Bucknell University in 1983 with a double major in animal behavior and art and a minor in creative writing.

[4] Fujimura went on to study traditional Japanese painting at the Tokyo University of the Arts under a Nihonga Master Kazuho Hieda.

[2] Fujimura's works has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, including the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, Israel, the U.K., China, and Hong Kong.

[2] His work includes "Ki-seki", "Water Flames", "Walking on Water", "Silence", "Columbines", "Golden Sea", "Four Holy Gospels", "Rhapsody", and "Sea Beyond", a collection of paintings using pulverized precious minerals, including gold, platinum, silver, azurite, malachite and cinnabar.

[6] In October 2023, Fujimura opened an exhibit of his paintings titled "My Bright Abyss: Paintings and Prints" at the Bradford Gallery at St. George's Episcopal Church in Nashville, TN in partnership with Covenant Presbyterian Church (Nashville) and Liturgy Collective.

[16] He also appeared at the inaugural Alliance for Responsible Citizenship in London in late 2023, speaking on kintsugi, abstract art, and his cultural vision for the world.

[18] In 2023, upon request by Christopher Rothko, Fujimura wrote the afterword for republication of The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art (Yale U.

His mid-career retrospective catalogue Golden Sea (Dillon Gallery Press) was released in 2013 with essays by Daniel Siedell, Roberta Ahmanson, Nicolas Wolterstorff, and others.

[21] He has co-hosted several major conferences for the International Arts Movement, including Culture Care Summit (February 8–12, 2017, at Fuller Theological Seminary).

[citation needed] Fujimura received 2016 Aldersgate Prize, which "celebrates the outstanding achievement of an author whose scholarly inquiry challenges reductionistic trends in academia by yielding a broad, integrative analysis of life's complexities and shedding fresh light on ultimate questions that enliven Christian conceptions of human flourishing", for his Silence and Beauty book on Shūsaku Endō.

[citation needed] Fujimura Institute brought a collaborative exhibit to Shusaku Endo Literature Museum in Sotome, Nagasaki, in August 2017.

[29] At the completion of his term in 2009, then-Chair Dana Gioia awarded him the Chairman's Medal for his service and contribution to arts advocacy in the United States.

When he was in Japan studying traditional methods in Japanese art, Fujimura was searching for a deeper meaning and purpose in life, but he did not find satisfaction, thinking the Bible's teachings were not applicable for the modern world.

It was not until he read the poems of William Blake, where he found new meaning in Christianity and began his journey of his newfound faith.

She is the managing partner of Shim & Associates, P.C., co-founder and CEO of Embers International, Inc., and President of Academy Kintsugi.