Drue Kataoka is a globally renowned artist, technologist and the CEO of the eponymous Drue Kataoka Art Studios in Silicon Valley. Drue Kataoka Studios has grown under her leadership to clients in over 30 countries and 5 continents (and two artworks sent to Space).

Drue's works are rooted in Zen philosophy and span a breadth of material art forms including mirror-polished steel sculpture and painting, and technological art such as virtual reality, EEG, NFTs, and art-science collaborations. Prominent works include her collaboration with Industrial Light & Magic Immersive entitled Will Your Heart Pass the Test? (auctioned by Phillips for $252,000), her time dilation artwork Up!, featured in the first zero gravity art exhibit at the International Space Station, her Ambrosia series inspired by neural networks, and her Celestial Lace mirror-polished stainless steel sculptures. She is an Advisory Board Member of Space for Humanity, sending diverse humans into space.

Drue's art has been featured on CNN, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Deutsche Welle, CNBC, CBS, ABC, FoxNews, NY1, Telemundo, Barrons, Wired, Blackbook, Gentry and others.

Graduate of Stanford University. Recipient of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute Award for her extensive community service. Exec education: Global Leadership & Public Policy for the 21st Century at the Harvard Kennedy School & Foundations for Leadership in the 21st Century at Yale University.