SEIKO TACHIBANA was born in Japan and completed her Masters of Art Education at Kobe University, Japan. She received an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute, and has since received many awards including Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award. She has been living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her distinctive work balances Asian tradition with minimalist modernity. Tachibana’s work has shown internationally also can be found in the Los Angeles County Museum, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco the Legion of the Honor, Portland Art Museum as well as a number of other museums, institutios and individual collections throughout USA, Europe and Japan.
The Piano Connection
In descending chronological order
| Description | Generation to Steinway 338662 | Date | Place | People |
| Art on Piano Unveiling | 1st | 5/16/2022 | Treasure Island Museum | Seiko Tachibana, Kendall Ross Bean, Karen Earle Lile |
| “Complementary Skills” Decal installed on Steinway 338662 | 1st | ?/?/2022 | Treasure Island Museum | Seiko Tachibana |
| 4 Art concepts, colored pencil on paper | n/a | 03/21/2021 | Berkeley | Seiko Tachibana |
| “Complementary Skills” art commissioned by Karen Earle Lile | n/a | 02/01/2020 | Piano Finders West & Berkeley | Karen Earle Lile |
| Piano rebuilt through “Hands Preserving History Project” | 1st | 1/10/2017 to 9/18/2018 | Piano Finders East | Kendall Ross Bean |
| Piano entrusted with Karen Lile Productions for Provenance Development | 1st | 1/9/2017 | Piano Finders East | Karen Earle Lile |
| Piano purchased by private family trust. | 1st | 1/9/2017 | Piano Finders East | Undisclosed |
| Piano donated to Building Bridges | 1st | 1/1/2017 | San Francisco | Sally and Michael Cahill |
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