Jamie Okuma is a multidisciplinary Artist and Designer who’s career has spanned over 30 years.
She is an enrolled member of the La Jolla Band of Luiseno (Mission) Indians who is tribally Luiseno, Shoshone-Bannock, and Wailaki from her mothers side and and Okinawan from her fathers side. She runs her thriving clothing and accessories e-commerce shop where she resides on the La Jolla Indian Reservation located in southern California with her husband and two young sons.

Her path and a life long love with her culturally embedded art practice began as a child while attending the Ft. Hall Festival on the Ft. Hall Indian Reservation, ID. This is where her grandmother hails from and where her career began by entering her first art show at the age of six and began sewing creating outfits to dance in.

Once out high school she went on to attend a graphic art class at Palomar Community Collage and then moved to Santa Fe, NM to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). During that short period demand for her work was rapidly increasing to continue to stay in school with the goal of a degree.
Since that time, the art school drop-out has been published and exhibited around the world, won multiple awards from The Southwestern Association of Indian Arts, The Heard Museum Art Market, was the recipient of the 2019 Knudsen Prize. She was also one of the inaugural awardees of craft from The Maxwell Hanrahan Foundation.

In 2022 Jamie was one of the first Native Americans to have work chosen for the the Metropolitan Museums Costume Institute’s Exhibition. The Met’s Costume Institute has since purchased two of her pieces for their permeant collection including a dress that was in their exhibition “ In America: A Lexicon of Fashion”.