A.I.
Drue Kataoka Studios has been at the forefront of digital technologies in art for years. A recognized leader in A.I. and a recipient of the Women in GenAI Innovator Award, Drue serves on the World Economic Forum taskforce on agentic A.I. Her A.I. artworks have been featured globally, including in recent high-profile initiatives by OpenAI and Mastercard.
Living Ink — sumi ink, alive under your hand. Twenty years of sumi-e discipline carried into real ink physics: thirteen modes, each born from one of Drue’s paintings, running live in the browser on the phone in your pocket. Built in a long conversation with Anthropic’s Claude. Paint with it at ink.drue.net · Explore Living Ink →
Women in GenAI National Leadership Council awarded Drue Kataoka the 2025 Artificial Intelligence Innovator Award at the inaugural Women in GenAI summit and awards, hosted by Fenwick & West in Silicon Valley. Watch the video.
GoalFlow — a painting instrument for football fans, built for the 2026 World Cup Final. Choose your country and paint with its colors: the ink is a real-time fluid simulation that blooms, swirls, and drifts like pigment in water, live in the browser, even on a phone. Every flag is a palette — and when you’re done, you decide: save your painting, or release it and watch it dissolve back into the water. Creation over consumption. Built with OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT Sites.
Sky Peel — look again. From a distance it belongs to the Miami skyline; up close, the city peels back like paper to reveal the sky underneath. A trompe-l’oeil billboard commissioned by OpenAI for its Reimagined with ChatGPT Images campaign, displayed beside Pérez Art Museum Miami — with ChatGPT Images as a visual collaborator, iterating the illusion while holding on to the architecture’s realism and its billboard-scale read. Explore Sky Peel →
With Mastercard — Drue Kataoka Studios was commissioned to feature Mastercard’s Center for Inclusive Growth CEO in the global campaign launching its ASEAN initiative. The studio created a multilingual A.I. avatar film, bringing together custom workflows, artistry, and a suite of A.I. tools — including voice models built for ten ASEAN languages, from Khmer to Lao to Burmese, where training data is often scarce. The campaign celebrated that a billion people will enter the middle class in the coming decade — most of them in Asia.
A Sunny Day in the Distant Future — what do you see? How does it make you feel? Over the years, Drue Kataoka Studios has worked in both atoms and bits — pouring molten steel and bringing it to a mirror-polish finish, and bending pixels to a new purpose. Reflective fragments are woven through much of the art: mirror-polished stainless steel, glass mirror, steel mirror, acrylic-substrate mirror — and, of course, digital mirrors on multiple levels.
Ambrosia: Heart Fractal Echoes — mothers carry their children’s cells decades after a pregnancy; fetal stem cells can migrate to an injured heart and reprogram themselves as beating heart cells to aid its repair. As a mother of two, Drue imagined what those cells might feel and perceive — an invisible bond made visible, expressed in the language of Ambrosia. Watch the video.
Creating A.I. Ambrosias — a custom LoRA trained on a curated dataset of the studio’s physical Ambrosia works, tuned to retain their intricate textures and color dynamics. The sculptures — conceptually inspired by neural networks, with over 169 billion physical configurations — are encoded into a digital model and extended through it: physical and digital in an endless feedback loop of creation. Watch the video.