Baker Artist Portfolios

Kei Ito is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist whose practice bridges experimental photography, performance, sculpture, and large-scale installation. Working primarily with cameraless photographic processes, Ito uses light, breadth, and material experimentation to visualize invisible forces such as memory, trauma, and environmental impact. His work excavates hidden histories–particularly those connected to nuclear violence–through ritualistic image making and immersive environments that draw on the language of monuments and memorials.

As a third-generation hibakusha living in the United States, Ito employs his inherited history as a framework for examining contemporary and future social realities. His projects transform photography into an embodied, performative act, merging gesture with material process to create contemplative spaces for reflection and collective healing. 

Ito’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art and MoCA Arlington. His work is held in institutional collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Norton Museum of Art, the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Light Work, Johns Hopkins University, and the Georgia Museum of Art.