NOBI NAGASAWA, Associate Professor, Director M.F.A., M.F.A. Hochschule der Künste Berlin.
n.nagasawa@gmail.com
Room 4207 - 631.632.7305

A native of Japan, and based in New York City, Nobuho Nagasawa received her art education in the Netherlands and Germany. After receiving a Masters degree from Hochschule der Künste in (West) Berlin, an invitation from California Institute of the Arts brought her to the United States in 1986, where she studied visual art, critical theory and music.

Her professional work ranges from site-specific projects, gallery and museum installations and public art. Her works involves in depth research into the cultural history and memory, and extensive community participation. She has exhibited extensively in Europe, Asia, Middle East and the United States in numerous international venues, which includes projects in Italy, Denmark, the Royal Garden of the Prague Castle in the Czech Republic, Ludwig Museum in Hungry and Germany, Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, and the new Alexandria library in Egypt.

Most recently, she was a Japanese representative for the Asian Art Biennial in Bangladesh (2002), Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates (2003), and Echigo-Tsumari Triennial in Japan (2003). She received several international awards including the DAAD Fellowship from Germany, Rockefeller Grant, California Arts Council and Brody Arts Fund Awards and several Japan Foundation Grants. She exhibited at the Ace Gallery in New York as a recipient of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program after she moved to New York in 2001.

Recipient of the 1997 Design Excellence Award for Architecture and Public Art, through the Cultural Affairs Office in Los Angeles, she has been commissioned more than 20 public art projects, including the 42.000 -square foot government plaza for the Urban Government Center in Japan, commissioned by the Ministry of Construction though the Tokyo Metropolitan government (2000). Her current public art projects include projects in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Stockton, and Seattle. The public art for the new Austin City Hall with an internationally renowned architect Antoine Predock will be completed in 2004. Her work has been published in several books including, “Lure of the Local-Senses of Place in Multicentered Society” by Lucy Lippard (New Press), and most recently in New York Times and Art in America.