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Nobuho Nagasawa, Associate Professor, M.F.A. Hochschule der Künste Berlin. Nobuho Nagasawa was raised in Europe and Japan, and received her MFA in Berlin. Her invitation to the US came from California Institute of the Arts, where she studied art, critical theory, and music. She is an interdisciplinary artist whose site-specific works explore the places, politics, ecology, and psychological dimensions of space and people. Her work involves in-depth research into the cultural history and memory, and extensive community participation. Nagasawa was an Associate Professor at US Santa Cruz prior to joining the faculty at Stony Brook in 2001. Nagasawa’s exhibition record includes; the Royal Garden of the Prague Castle (Czech Republic), Ludwig Museums (Germany and Hungary), Rufino Tamayo Museum (Mexico), Alexandria Library (Egypt), the Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities (US) and several museums in Japan. She has been a representative of international venues: Asian Art Biennial (Bangladesh, 2002), International Art Biennial (Egypt, 2002, 2004, 2005), Sharjah Biennial (United Arab Emirates, 2003), Echigo-Tsumari Triennial (Japan, 2003) and Sinop Biennial (Turkey, 2006), as well as nominated for the Venice Biennale. She is a recipient of numerous grants including DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Berlin State Grant, Rockefeller Grant, California Arts Council Fellowships Award, Brody Arts Fund, and several Japan Foundation Grants. In New York, she was a recipient of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation’s Space Program, and Established Artist Fellowships. In the field of public art, Nagasawa has been commissioned for more than twenty public art, and received nine awards including Design Excellence Award for Architecture and Public Art (Los Angeles, 1997), Art Commission Awards for Excellence in Design presented by Mayor Bloomberg (New York, 2007), Design category Merit Award, and Design Excellence Award (San Francisco, 2008 and 2009) Her Austin City Hall and Public Plaza project with architect Antoine Predock was featured as one of the best projects nationwide in the Public Art Review in 2005. Her works has been published in books including: Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Japanese Against the Sky (Alexandra Munroe, 1994), Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society (Lucy Lippard, 1997), Epicenter: San Francisco Bay Area Art Now (Mark Johnstone, Leslie Aboud Holzman, 2002), and Art after the Bomb: Iconographies of Trauma in Late Modern Art (Darrell Davisson, 2008), and cited in The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Artweek, Art in America, Art Asia Pacific, Sculpture magazine, and The New York Times by Holland Cotter.
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