Big Boy by Jocelyn Suzuka Figueroa
Polyester and acrylic fibers, 2025
2 x 4”
 
Born in Kyoto and based in Minnesota, Jocelyn Suzuka Figueroa is a hafū fiber artist and painter. She creates plush animal dolls and ghost scroll paintings as a means to examine generational family traditions that have been altered by immigration, loss, and war. Her work, rooted in the maintenance of inherited artistic practices, stems from the belief that foundational legacies of the past must be investigated before a home can be built for the present. She received her MFA from MCAD in 2021 and is currently re-emerging from a multi-year postpartum haze.