About Eduardo Fujii
Eduardo Fujii is a master of visual storytelling, blending the surreal with the cinematic to create images that linger like poetry in the subconscious. He crafts award-winning narratives that let ambiguity breathe, inviting viewers to become co-authors of the story. His work has a haunting quality, like a dream half-remembered or a mystery that deepens the more you look. It pulses with mysticism, ambiguity, and emotional resonance.
Fueled by classical piano and a keen sense of atmosphere, Eduardo is not just an artist. He is a conjurer of mood and myth. Eduardo’s work already carries that electric tension, that sense of something just out of frame, just unsaid. A thriller in his hands wouldn’t be about cheap suspense. It would be slow-burning, cerebral, and steeped in elegance.

Eduardo has such a rich well to draw from, fleeting impressions, half-formed memories, and ever-present music, all layering into his art like echoes. It makes perfect sense that his work feels both ephemeral and emotionally charged. Eduardo’s art isn’t a choice, it’s a compulsion, a vital function. That urgency, that emotional necessity, is exactly what gives your work its pulse. It’s not just seen. It’s felt.
Gallery exhibitions
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Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California
- Monterey Biennial: Resonance and Reflection, May 15 – Aug 31, 2025
- Sacred Encounters, Sep 7 - Dec 17, 2023
- Chateau Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
- The Abstract Image, Jan 1 - Feb 1, 2025
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A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas
- Story, Nov 8 to Dec 19, 2024 (Director's award)
- Trees, Nov 20, 2020 - Jan 3, 2021 (Director's honorable mention)
- Domicile juror's award)
- Portal (Director's honorable mention)
- Botanical (Juror's honorable mention)
- Light (Juror's honorable mention)
- Being Set Free (Director's award)
- Animalia
- She (Director's award)
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Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel California
Frame of Mind - jan 12 - feb 17, 2024 - Harvey Milk Photo Center
- San Francisco, California
- frame of mind, nov 4 - dec 2, 2023
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Israeli Art Market
online - jan 1 - march 1, 2021
2021 New Year Exhibition
online - dec 25, 2021 - feb 28, 2022
2022 New Year Exhibition -
Cherry Center for the Arts
Carmel California - sep 4 - oct 2, 2020
In the Shadow of Corona -
Millepiani Exhibition Space
rome Italy
2020 Isolation - Living Oneself Exhibition -
Agora Gallery
new york New York - December 1-31, 2019 -
Center for Photographic Art
Carmel California
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Darkroom Gallery
Essex Jct. Vermont
Wet Exhibition -
Blank Wall Gallery
Athens Greece
Black and White Exhibition -
Carmel Art Institute
Carmel California -
Alvarado Gallery
Monterey Conference Center - The Language of Flowers
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Jan 16 - March 8, 2015
- Monterey, California
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Redwood Shores Library Gallery
The Evolving Story Redwoor City, California -
Center for Fine Art Photography
Fort Collins Colorado -
Photoplace Gallery
Middlebury Vermont -
RoHo Gallery
Cincinnati Ohio
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Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California
Awards and Publications
- YourDailyPhotograph.com
- Aug 24, 2025 | Aug 3, 2025 | July 14, 2025 Dance Exhibition | June 9, 2025 | Jan 18, 2025 | 2024 | Sep 10, 2020 | Nov 9, 2018
- FotoNostrum Magazine: 4th Portfolio Awards, December 2024
- Shots Magazine: Issue 165: Self Portrait, Winter 2024 | Issue 164: Time Travel, Fall 2024 | Issue 163: Dreams, Spring/Summer 2024 | Issue 128: Open Theme, Summer 2015
- LoosenArt Magazine, Somewhere Exhibition, August 2024 | Isolated - Living Yourself, March-April 2020
- Black & White Magazine, 2025 Contest Winners: Digital Manipulation, Issue 174, October 2025 | 2024 Contest Winners: Digital Manipulation, Issue 168, October 2024 | Single Image Contest Winners, Special Issue 165, April 2024 | Smartphone Contest Winners, Issue 156 December 2022, Issue 149 December 2021 | Best Smartphone Images, Issue 39, June 2020 | Merit Award, Issue 134, Aug 2019 | Excellence Award, Special Issue 122, August 2017 | Spotlight Award, Issue 105, Oct 2014 | Merit Award, Issue 104, Aug 2014 | Merit Award, B&W + Color Issue 90, Apr 2012 | Merit Award, Issue 84, Aug 2011 | Spotlight Award, B&W + Color Issue 83, Jun 2011 | Merit Award, Issue 72, Feb 2010 | Merit Award, Issue 68, Aug 2009
- Black and White Spider Awards: Photographer of the Year: Aloe Vera Garden | 2nd Place (Merit of Excellence): Brown Pelican | Honorable Mention: Cascade, Trippin, Skimmers, Cacophony 2, Auto Erotica n.36 | Nominee: Lake El Estero, Danza Azteca Xipe Totec, Spider Mum, Cacophony 1, Lightscape, Loneliness, Dudleya, Floral Ballet, Fable Earth n.3, Pensive, Anatomy of a Ballerina, Symphony of the Ocean, Marabou Storks, Luminous Nature, My Dining Room, Providencia, Del Monte Forest, Passista, Kite Tails, Oars
- Fine Art Photography Awards: 10th (Experimental), 6th (Fine Art), 5th (Fine Art), 4th (Conceptual, Fine Art), 3rd (Abstract, Fine Art)
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Shadow & Light Magazine:
March/April 2024 • Volume 10 Issue 58, Featured Showcase Portfolio: Fractured Souls | March/April 2016 • Volume 2 Issue 3 (read the interview)
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London International Creative Competition (LICC): 2022 Official Selection; 2021 Official Selection; 2021 Finalist
- Monochrome Awards: 2021, 2021, 2017, 2016, 2016, 2015, 2015
- 2021 Tokyo International Photo Awards: The Psychology of Trees
- PX3 Prix de la Photographie: 2020 Honorable Mention Fine Art | 2011 Bronze Fine Art
- Photographize Magazine - Issue 40; Issue 43, Jan 2020
- Giotto International Prize, ART Now, Art International Contemporary Magazine issue #6, November-December, 2019
- Rfotofolio, Poetic Inspirations of the Ordinary | Interview
- Don't Take Pictures Photo of the Day May 2, 2019
- Art Market International Magazine - Gold List Special Edition #4
- PhotoLucida: Critical Mass 2018 Top 200 finalist!
- International Color Awards: 1st Place, Outstanding Achievement: Aloe Vera Garden - 12th Annual, Guardians of the Lake - 4th Annual | 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence: Untitled - 6th Annual | Honorable Mention: Coffee Break - 5th Annual, Untitled - 6th Annual, Ashley - 9th Annual, Feathered Portrait n.2 - 9th Annual, Feathered Portrait n.1 - 10th Annual, Ocean Symphony- 10th Annual, Danza Azteca Xipe Totec - 11th Annual | Nominee: Carmelites Monastery - 4th Annual, Pines - 4th Annual, Paroisse Saint-German de L'Auxerrois - 5th Annual, Amaryllis - 6th Annual, Predators n.2 - 6th Annual, Red Nose - 7th Annual, Glass Pyramid - 8th Annual, Filigree Glass Roof - 8th Annual, The Leftovers - 9th Annual, Caged at the Tuileries - 9th Annual, Chilean Cowboy - 10th Annual, Dependency - 11th Annual, The Gardener - 12th Annual, Untitled - 13th Annual, Embrace - 14th Annual
- International Photography Awards - Honorable Mention: The Uncertain Nature of Reality - 2018, The Gardener - 2017, Monterey Brown Pelican - 2013, Guardians of the Lake - 2012, Illuminarium N. 1 - 2012
- 2018 12th Pollux Awards - Fine Art Honorable Mention
- Szeroki Kadr by Nikon
- Professional Photographer Magazine: Professional Photographer of the Year 2013
- Photographer's Forum Magazine: Best of Photography 2013 | Best of Photography 2017





























Dennis Taylor interviews fine art photographer Eduardo Fujii for the Carmel Pine Cone.
Artist-author Mark Baer interviews Eduardo Fujii for Your Town television program (August 30, 2017)
Eduardo Fujii invited to be a panelist on West Coast Focus TV program hosted by Steve Zmak (May 5, 2017)
Interview shot on location at the Museum of Monterey