____Selected exhibitions

• The Scented Garden: Mixed-Media Work by Renee Iijima, Catharine E.B. Cox Award Exhibition, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2000
• Japanese American Contemporary Artists, Japanese Cultural Center, Honolulu, 1998
• The Human Experience: 20th Century Photography, Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Colorado, 1998
• The Contemporary Museum Biennial of Hawai‘i Artists, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, 1997
• 1996 International Book Arts Exhibition, Academy Arts Center, Honolulu

In her work Renee Iijima addresses the issue of man’s relation to the infinite. Born in Honolulu, 1956, Iijima has a BA from Pitzer College, Claremont, California, 1980. She studied photography at San Francisco Art Institute, 1995, and Asian studies and printmaking at Waseda University, Tokyo, 1978–1979. Iijima received a State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in Photography, 1996.