TOM NAKASHIMA

EDUCATION
BA Loras College. Dubuque, IA.
MA University of Notre Dame, IN.
MFA University of Notre Dame, IN.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Tom Nakashima, Walter Gropius Master Artist Award Exhibition and Workshop, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV.
Tom Nakashima: Nature Morte, The Dubuque Museum of Art, IA.

2012
Cycle of Change: Tom Nakashima, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
Tom Nakashima,: Treepiles, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, GA.
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA.

2010
The Hudgens Center for The Arts, Duluth, GA.

2009
Tom Nakashima:  Switzer Distuingished Artist Exhibition, The Anna Lamar Switzer Center
for Art, Pensacola, FL.

2021
Retrospective, Terzo Piano, Washington, DC.

2013
Walter Gropius Master Artist Award Exhibition and Workshop, Huntington Museum of Art, WV.

The Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA.

2012
The Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL (2/1- 6/2012).

2011
Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, GA.
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA.

2010
The Hudgens Center for The Arts, Duluth, GA.

2009
Switzer Distinguished Artist Exhibition, The Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Art, Pensacola, FL.

2008
Berryville Treepiles, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL.
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC.

2007
Tom Nakashima: Two Decades, The Morris Museum of Art.
Oregon State U, Fairbanks Gallery, Corvallis, OR

2004
Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, GA.

2003
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA.

2001
Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.

1999
Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY.

Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.  

1996
Teplitzky & Scott Fine Arts, Cincinnati, OH.
Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.

1995
Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY.
Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY.
Horwitch LewAllen, Santa Fe, NM.
Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.

1994
Pilgrimage- Foldng Screens, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Washington, DC; curated by Jane Addams Allen.
Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.
Waiting for Shishin, Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC; curated by Alan Prokop.

1993
Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.

1991
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY.
Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.

1990
Tom Nakashima 1984- 1900, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC; curated by Lynn Schmidt.
Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.

1988
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, Japan.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Shadows from the Past; Sansei Artists and the American Concentration Camps,
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA; curated by Gail Enns, catalog available.
Shadows from the Past; Sansei Artists and the American Concentration Camps,
San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA; curated by Gail Enns, catalog available.

2019
Party for Democracy, The Hawthorne Mansion, Monterey, CA.
The Art Party, The Hawthorne Mansion, Monterey, CA.

2018- 2019
Selections from the permanent collection, Lincoln Gallery  SAAM (The Smithsonian American
Art Museum. Sanctuary with Western Sunset, 1991, 96” x 108”, o/c.
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/tom-nakashima-5852

​2018
Aurborial,The Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA; curated by Margo Ann Crutchfield
Selections from The Artery Collection, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC.
The Crow Flies Backwards, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA.

​2017
Awakening, Carmel Plaza, Carmel, CA. 

2016
Shah Alam Biennale 2016, Malaysia, featured artist representing US.

2015
Gandingan: Tom Nakashima,  Awang Damit Ahmad & Yusof Ghani, Tapak Gallery, ShahAlam,  Selangorr,  Malaysia.
Brilliant Art Show, Green Chalk Contemporary, Monterey, CA.

2014
Fresh Fish, Green Chalk Contemporary, Monterey, CA.
Gallery Group Show, Green Chalk Contemporary, Monterey, CA.

2013
Joseph Campbell: The Artist’s Way, collaboration with The Joseph Campbell Foundation,
Opus Archives, Celadon Arts, the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA; curated by Gail Enns.

2010
Transcendental Vision: Japanese Culture and Contemporary Art, The Independent, Sand City, CA. Sponsored by Celadon Arts, Sand City, The Japanese American Citizens League, curated by Gail Enns.

2009
Assemblage+ Collage+Construction, The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA.

The Painter’s Reel, The Museum of Art & History, Macon GA, Telfair Museum, Savannah, and The Morris Museum of Art,
Augusta, GA.
Within State Lines, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA-GA).

2005
Contemporary Landscape: Crossing Boundaries, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC.

2003
Off the Press, Southeast Museum of Photography, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

2002
Faculty Show, FAC Gallery, Augusta State University.

2001
Prints and Prints, Denise Bibro Fine Arts, New York, NY.

2000
In Praise of Paper, The Hanoi Fine Arts College, Hanoi, Vietnam.
No Boundaries, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.
Print Odyssey 2000, Towson University’s Union Gallery, Towson, MD.

1999
Inheritors of a Legacy: Charles Lang Freer and the Washington Avant  Garde, In collaboration with the Smithsonian Freer Gallery, The Japan Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan, Washington, DC; curated by Gail F. Enns.
Sans Trite, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO.

1998
Structures, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH.

1997
Assimilations,.The Nippon Gallery, Japanese National Chamber of Commerce, New York, NY; curated by Gail F. Enns, catologue introdution by Janet Koplos.
Crossing Over, Changing Places, Corcoran Gallery of American Art, Hemicycle Gallery, Washington DC, tour through 1997.

1996
Carriers and Enclosures, Artspace, New Haven, CT.

1995
Slovenian Print Biennial, Lubliana, Slovenia.
WPA’s 20 Chairs, Invitational, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC.
Japan’s Influence on Western Art, Japan Ambassador’s Residence, Washington, DC; curated by Gail Enns.
47th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY.
Relocation & Revisions: The Japanese Internment Reconsidered, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA;
curated by Noriko Gamblin.
Floored Art, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY, travel tour through 1994.

1994
Memories of Childhood, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY, US travel tour through 1997.
Japan: The Nature of Now, Spirit Square Center for the Arts and Education, Charlotte, NC; curated by Alan Propkof.
Evolution of the Print: Fourteen Years of Collaboration, Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC.
Sustainable Earth; A Greenpeace Fund Benefit, Remba Gallery, West Hollywood, CA and Deson-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL.

1993
Continuum: Culture and Consciousness, Embassy of Japan, Japan Information and Culture Center, Washington, DC,
Confluence: Art at the Intersection of Japanese and American Esthetics, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD.
Narratives of Loss: The Displaced Body, Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. 

1992
Crossing Over, Changing Place, Arts America Exhibition for the American Embassies in Europe, via USA toured Embassies of Eastern Europe, Spain, Italy, and Greece, travel tour through 1995. 

1991
Collage Unglued, North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL.
Washington- Moscow Art Exchange, State Tretyakov Museum, USSR.
Object d’Art, Contemporary Folding Screens, The Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA.
Tom Nakashima, Featured Acquisition, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC.
Pyramid Atlantic, A Decade of Paper, Sylvia Cordish Fine Art, Baltimore, MD.

1990
The Decade Show, Frameworks of Identity in the 1980’s, Collaborative effort between the The New Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem; a multidisciplinary exhibition of the art and issues of the 1980’s bringing together more than 200 works by ninety-four artists of Hispanic, Asian, African-American, Native American, and European heritage. The exhibition was issues oriented, focusing on the important concerns of the 1980s as they relate to the idea of identity.
Reinvestigating Myth, University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, PA.
Objects d’ Art: Contemporary Folding Screens, Center for Crafts, Richmond, VA; Piedmont Arts Association, Martinsville, VA; Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Frederick, MD.

SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2013
Walter Gropius Master Artist Award, Huntington Museum of Art, WV.

2009
Anna Lamar Switzer Distinguished Artist Award, Anna  Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Pensacola, FL.

2006
Louis K. Bell Research Award for Outstanding Research, Augusta State University, Augusta, GA.

2004
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award.

2002
Individual Arts Fellowship, Virginia Commission for the Arts.

2001
PMCNJ Printmaking Residency, Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Sommerset, NJ.

2000
Printmaking Fellow, Celadon Arts., Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

1996
Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, Mid-Atlantic NEA.
Residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY.

1993
National Printmaking Fellowship, Prints co-published by an NEA Special Projects Grant, and
the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking.

1992
Award in the Visual Arts (AVA).
Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, Mid-Atlantic NEA.

1991
Nominated for The Awards in the Visual Arts (AVA); (Also nominated 1987, 1986,1985,1983).
The Mayor’s Award for Excellence in an Artistic Discipline, Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly, Washington, DC.

1989
Artist Residency, Pyramid Atlantic, Washington, DC.
Individual Artist Award, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities.

1988
Individual Artist Award, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

1986
Southeast 7-SECCA/RJR Individual Artist Fellowship, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art

1985
Nomination, The Howard Foundation Fellowship.

1984
Individual Artist Award, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC.

SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
2021
Jenkins, Mark, In the galleries: Face to face with a world both beatuiful and horrific. THE WASHINGTON POST, 4/16/21. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/art-gallery-shows-dc-area/2021/04/15/467959b0-9bbc-11eb-8005-bffc3a39f6d3_story.html
Video interview with Tom Nakashima, Terzo Piano, Washington, DC, 4/21. https://tomnakashima.art/2021/04/19/interview-with-tom-nakashima-terzo-piano/
Online studio tour, San Joaquin Delta College, Shadows from the Past, Sansei Artists and the American Concentration Camps.
1/28/21; https://tomnakashima.art/2021/02/06/studio-tour-january-28-2021/

2006
Cullum, Jerry , Beyond boundaries, ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION, 5/14/06.

2002
Howard Risatti, Tom Nakashima at Anton Gallery, ARTFORUM, 3/2.

2001
Jessica Dawson, Tom Nakashima at Anton Gallery, THE WASHINGTON POST, 12/01.

1999
Protzman, Ferdinand, Rob Barnard, Tom Nakashima at Anton Gallery, THE WASHINGTON POST, 12/23/99.
O’Sullivan, Michael, Freer, to the Fourth Power, THE WASHINGTON POST, 5/14/99, p. N 66, color reproduction.

1996 ELLE, Spring Fashion Special, 3/96, p. 273, Vol. XI, No. 127 (illus, Big Orange).
Birke, Judy, Artspace puts up a few formidable ‘Barriers’ in show, THE NEW HAVEN REGISTER, 10/27/96.
Zimmer, William, Sculptural Installation of Large Intention, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 11/396.

1995
Hemp, Christine, Tom Nakashima, Paintings, Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, THE, 11/95.

1994
Illustration for Table of Contents pages, THE PARIS REVIEW, Summer/94.
Fleming, Lee, East Meets West, Tom Nakashima, THE WASHINGTON POST, 11/20/94.
Prokop, Alan, The Nature of Now, THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 7/29/94.
McCoy, Mary, Nakashima’s Asian Fascination Unfolds, THE WASHINGTON POST, 10/27/94.

1993
Auer, James, UWM Show Targets White Males, THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL, 4/25/93.
Dorsey, John, Goucher Exhibit Shows Draw of Japanese and American Aesthetic, The BALTMORE SUN, 3/19- 3/25/93.

1992
Littlefield, Kinney, Searing Statements from Sansei, LONG BEACH PRESS TELEGRAM, 5/10/92.
Knight, Christopher, Relocations in Long Beach, LOS ANGELES TIMES, 5/21/92.

1991
Gowen, Anne, Artist, Patrons Honored by Mayor, THE WASHINGTON POST, 11/1/91.
Koplos, Janet, Tom Nakashima at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, ART IN AMERICA, 10/91.
Moran, Edward, Tom Nakashima finds sanctuary in a vital East-West aesthetic, THE NEW YORK NICHIBEI, 2/7’91.
Suito, Makita, Tom Nakashima, TOKYO TIMES, Tokyo, Japan.

1990
Welzenbach, Michael, Nakashima Melding Cultures, THE WASHINGTON POST, 5/26/90.
Gibson, Eric, Skilled Technician Blooms with Imagery, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 5/26/90.
Risatti, Howard, Tom Nakashima, Washington Project for the Arts, ARTFORUM, 10/90.
Guthrie, Derek, Old Symbols, New Myths, an Interview with DC Artist Tom Nakashima, THE NEW ART EXAMINER, 9/90.
Swift, Mary, Interview with Tom Nakashima, THE WASHINGTON REVIEW, 4- 5/90.

SELECTED MUSEUM, PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
The Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA.
Nelson Fine Art Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA.
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Western Development Corporation, Washington, DC.
Eric Colbert & Assoc, Architects, Washington DC.
AT&T, Washington, DC.
Merrill Lynch, Washington, DC.
The New DC Convention Center, Washington, DC.
The Anna Lamar Switzer Art Center, Pensacola Junior College, FL.
John and Mable Ringling Museum. of Art, Sarasota, FL.
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA.
Georgia Museum. of Art, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA.
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Ft Wayne, IN.
The Snite Museum, Univ. of Notre Dame, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN.
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA.
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Peat Marwick Mitchel, Chicago, IL.
Shiff/Hardin and Waite, Chicago, IL.
Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Chicago, IL.
Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC.
Rutger’s University, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ.
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ.
The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH.
The Hyatt Regency, Arlington, VA.
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI.
Huntington Museum. of Art, Huntington, WV.
The Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV.
UNITAS, Kofu, Japan.
YES Corp, Kofu, Japan.
L’Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.