Joe Suzuki is a visual artist working in Los Angeles. He was born in Tokyo and immigrated to the United States in 1988. His artworks often recontextualize cultural icons in a new way, becoming icons themselves. "I think of my work as artifacts of my own particular mixed culture, which developed as a result of being an immigrant to the US during the late 80's in my early teens. I view my culture as a confluence of multiple vectors with no hierarchy or order. I am interested, both visually and conceptually, in melding and mending such notions as East vs. West, high vs. low, commodity vs. craft, tradition vs. fads, and icon vs. iconoclasm".