Erika Tada is a Japan-based glass artist working primarily with kiln casting and hollow-cast sculpture. Her work explores memory, impermanence and the natural world through layered imagery, transparency and inner space in glass. Combining geometric structures with organic forms, she creates works that merge technical precision with poetic and sculptural depth. Erika received her M.F.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology and a P.h.D. from Tokyo University of the Arts. She has taught internationally at institutions including Pilchuck Glass School, the Corning Museum of Glass and Tokyo University of the Arts. She received the John H. Hauberg Fellowship from Pilchuck in 2022.