Nikiko Masumoto

Nikiko Masumoto first learned to love food as a young child slurping the nectar of overripe organic peaches on the Masumoto Family Farm. Since then, she has never missed a harvest. A farmer, artist, and leader, Masumoto works alongside her father to raise organic peaches, nectarines, and grapes. She calls herself an “agrarian artist,” cultivating the richness of life in the Central Valley through farming, food, stories, art, and community. Her artistic work currently is focused on Yonsei Memory Project, which she co-founded with Brynn Saito to awaken the archives of Japanese American history through site-specific creative and public pedagogy. Masumoto has a bachelor’s degree in gender and women’s studies from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree in performance as public practice from the University of Texas, Austin.