Naomi Nakazato is a Japanese-American multidisciplinary artist whose predominantly materials-based practice surveys the complex 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).

Solo and two-person exhibitions include: Olympia (Solo, New York, NY, 2024), Zona Maco (Solo, Mexico City, Mexico, 2023), LVL3 (Two-person, Chicago, IL, 2023), and Below Grand (Solo, New York, NY, 2022). Selected group exhibitions include Make Room (Los Angeles, CA, 2024), Island (New York, NY, 2023), The Print Center (New York, NY, 2024), Charles Moffett (New York, NY, 2023), and Galerie Tracanelli (Grenoble, France, 2021), among others.

Nakazato has held residencies at The University of Texas (Austin, TX, 2023), PADA (Barreiro, Portugal, 2022), Tiger Strikes Asteroids (Brooklyn, NY, 2020), and the Lower East Side Print Shop (New York, NY, 2019). She is the recipient of awards from The Print Center (2024), 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.

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Naomi Nakazato, Spirit Duplicator, Olympia, 2024.