Naomi Nakazato is a Japanese-American, multidisciplinary artist whose predominately materials-based practice surveys the conglomerate landscape of memory, language, and the artificial authenticity of the biracial experience. Her work utilizes the semiotics and syntactic intervention of natural objects to examine the weight of authenticity and the yearning to articulate a simultaneously close and unfamiliar self.
Nakazato holds a BA in Painting and Drawing from the South Carolina School of the Arts (2014) and an MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art (2018).Selected exhibitions include: Zona Maco, presented by Olympia (Mexico City, Mexico, 2023); Charles Moffett (New York, NY, 2023); LVL3 (Chicago, Illinois, 2022); Below Grand (New York, NY, 2022); Olympia (New York, NY, 2022); Galerie Tracanelli (Grenoble, France, 2021) among others. She is the recent recipient of grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2020); FST Studio Projects Funds (2019), and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (2017, 2016). Nakazato lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Naomi Nakazato, Zona Maco, presented by Olympia, 2023.
Exhibitions:
Dodecagon, 2021
MAIL, Curated by Anna Berlin, 2021
American Earthquake, Curated by Madeleine Bialke, 2019
Fairs:
News:
Print Center New York, New Voices: Ritual, 2024
Ilaria Sponda, Coeval Magazine, Interview: Naomi Nakazato, 2023
e-flux, Rising and Sinking Again, Boundary Monuments Dissolve, 2023
LVL3, Artist of the Week, Naomi Nakazato, 2023
The Hopper Prize, Naomi Nakazato Interview, 2020
Artforum, Wayfinding, 2020
