Deborah Masuoka is well known for her large-scale rabbit heads — dynamic and powerfully reductive sculptures that are conceptually complex and visually compelling. She has been a visiting artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT as well as at the legendary Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Israel. Her work is in numerous private and public art collections, including the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Arizona State University. In 2005 the Art in State Buildings program in Iowa purchased three of her cast bronze rabbit head sculptures for the Stafford Arboretum in Iowa State University's Reiman Gardens. The Iowa West Foundation commissioned Masuoka to create a series of three large-scale bronze sculptures for it's public art program. She earned a BFA from Wayne State University and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. *BC Artist–in–Residence, 1989
