TOM NAKASHIMA
1941 Born in Seattle, WA
EDUCATION
B.A. Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa
M.A. University of Notre Dame, Indiana
M.F. A. University of Notre Dame, Indiana
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Terzo Piano, Washington, DC
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 (catalog)
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 Distinguished Artist Exhibition, The Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Art, Pensacola, FL
2008
Tom Nakashima: Berryville Treepiles & Structures, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL (catalog)
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2007
Tom Nakashima: Two Decades, The Morris Museum of Art, New Jersey, (catalog)
2004
Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, GA
2003
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA
2001
Tom Nakashima: Berryville Treepiles, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
1999
Tom Nakashima: Berryville Treepiles, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NYC
Tom Nakashima: New Work, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
1996
Teplitzky & Scott Fine Arts, Cincinnati, OH
Tom Nakashima: New Work, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
1995
Tom Nakashima: New Work, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NYC
Tom Nakashima: New Work, Horwitch LewAllen, Santa Fe, NM
Tom Nakashima: New Work, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY
1994
Pilgrimage-Folding Screens by Tom Nakashima, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Washington, DC (catalog essay by Jane Addams Allen)
Tom Nakashima: New Work, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
Waiting for Shishin, Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC, curator Alan Porkop
1993
Tom Nakashima: New Work, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
1991
Tom Nakashima, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NYC
Tom Nakashima: New Work, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
1990
Tom Nakashima: 1984-1990, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC, curator, Lynn Schmidt (catalog)
Tom Nakashima: New Work, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
1988
Tom Nakashima, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, Japan
Tom Nakashima: New Work, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
1987
Tom Nakashima: New Work, Anton Gallery, Wahington, DC
1986
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Tom Nakashima: New Work, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
1984
Tom Nakashima: Standing on Ground Zero, Henri Gallery, Washington, DC
1982
Tom Nakashima: New Work, Barbara Balkan Fine Art, Chicago, IL
1980
Tom Nakashima: New Work, Henri Gallery, Washinton, DC
1979
Tom Nakashima, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
WHERE WE ARE NOT, SEIZAN Gallery, New York
Resilience- A Sansei Sense of Legacy, Mid-America Arts Alliance Touring Continental United States from 2022- 2027
2021
Shadows from the Past: Sansei Artists and the American Concentration Camps, Monterey Museum, San Joaquin Delta College, CA
2019
Arboreal Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech
2016
Shah Alam International Art Biennale, Malaysia (wrote “Thoughts” an intro to catalog)
2014
Art of the Print, Board of Governors of The Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC
2013
Joseph Cambell: The Artist’s Way, a collaboration btw The Joseph Cambell Foundation, Opus Archives, Celadon Arts and The Carl Cherry Center for The Arts, Carmel, CA, curated by Gail Enns (catalog)
Washington Art Matters, The Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington, DC
Anarchistic Abstraction, University of VA at Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
2012
Artists Choose Artists nominated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Flomenhaft Gallery, NY
Cycle of Change: Tom Nakashima’s Treepile Paintings, Vero Beach Museum of Art
2010
Transcendental Vision: Japanese Culture and Contemporary Art, The Independent, Sand City, CA, curated by Gail Enns, essay by Patrick Frank (catalog)
2009
Assemblage + Collage + Construction, The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, curated by Susan Hillhouse
The Painter’s Reel, The Museum of Art & History, Macon GA, Telfair Museum
Within State Lines, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA-GA), curated by Annette Cone-Skelton
2008
Tom Nakashima: A Retrospective, Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, GA
2006
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, The Fowler Museum, Anton Gallery’s Hawthrone Mansion, Monterey, CA
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, international tour
2005
Contemporary Landscape: Crossing Boundaries, McColl Center for Visual
2003
Off The Press, Southeast Museum of Photography, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, curated by 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2002
Faculty Show, FAC Gallery, Augusta State University
Faculty Show, Salve Regina Gallery, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
New American Paintings (catalog)
2001
Prints & Prints, Denise Bibro Fine Arts, NYC
Inheritors of a Legacy: Charles Lang Freer and the Washington Avant -Garde
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, Continuum, The Japan Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan, Washington, DC
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
1998
Summer Group Exhibition, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NYC
Selections from Soho - Steinbaum Krauss Gallery Artists, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
Structures, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
1997
Assimilations, The Nippon Gallery, NYC, curated by Gail Enns, essay by Janet Koplos
Crossing Over, Changing Places, Cocoran Museum of American Art, Hemicycle Gallery, Washington, DC, tour through 1997 (catalog)
1996
Barriers and Enclosures, Artspace, New Heaven, CT
Remote Sensing, 24th Southern Graphics Council Conference, West Virginia University
1995
Slovenian Print Biennial, Lubliana, Slovenia, (catalog)
WPA’s 20 Charis Endowment, Invitational, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
Japan’s Influence of Western Art, Home of Japan Ambassador, Washington, DC
47th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
1994
New Narratives, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA
Memories of Childhood: so we’re not the Cleavers or the Brady Bunch, Steinbaum Japan: The Nature of Now, Spirit Square Center for the Arts and Education, Charlotte, NC (catalog)
Evolution of the Print: Fourteen Years of Collaboration, Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC
Shelters, Saint Paul Companies, St. Paul, MN
House Sweet House, New Jersey Center for Visual Art Washington Portfolio, David Adamson, Washinton, DC
Sustainable Earth; A Greenpeace Fund Benefit, Remba Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Passages, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1993
Continuum: Culture and Consciousness, Embassy of Japan, Japan Information and Culture Center, Washington, DC, curated by Nancee Simonson (catalog)
Confluence: Art at the Intersection of Japanese and American Esthetics, Rosenberg Narratives of Loss: The Displaced Body, Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, curated by Michal Ann Carley (catalog)
Multicultural Americana, Florida Community Collage at Jacksonville, Jacksonville Beach, FL, curated by Carolyn M. Maynard
1992
Relocation & Revisions: The Japanese American Internment Reconsidered, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA, curated by Noriko Gamblin (catalog)
The Lady Aoi and Hanjo: Two Noh Plays by Yukio Mishima, Pacific Bridge Theater Group
Smithsonian Institution, Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC
Crossing Over, Changing Places, Arts America Exhibition for American Embassies in Europe, via USA toured Embassies of Eastern Europe, Spain, Italy, and Greece, 1992-95.
The Print Club, Philadelphia, curated by Jane Farmer (catalog)
1991
College Unglued, North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, curated by Washington Moscow Art Exchange, State Tretiakov Museum, USSR
Other Voices: Mediating Between Ethnic Traditions and the Modernist Mainstream, Object d’Art,
Contemporary Folding Screens, The Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA
Tom Nakashima, (featured acquisition) National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Pfizer Corporation Collection, curated by Museum of Modern Art Advisory, NYC
Albright Knox Members Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Asian Show, Strathmore Hall Art Center, Rockville, MD
Pyramid Atlantic, A Decade of Paper, Sylvia Cordish Fine Art, Baltimore, MD
Broadening The Collection, Potsdam College of the State of University of New York, Drawings, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC
1990
The Decade Show, The Studio Museum of Harlem, NY (joint show including The New Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, NY (catalog, essay by Margo Machida)
Reinvestigating Myth, University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Approaching The Figure, Georgetown Univ, Washington, DC
Objects d’ Art: Contemporary Folding Screens, Center for Crafts, Richmond, VA: Piedmont Arts Association, Martinsville, VA; Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Frederick, MD
1991
Washington Moscow Art Exchange, Emerson Gallery, Mclean Project for the Arts, Mclean, VA, and Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
1989
Buenos Aires/ Lima/ Washington Exchange, Centro Cultural de la Ciudad de Buenos 1988
1987
Southeast Seven 10, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, NC (catalog)
1976
Huntington 280, Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV; Best in Show, Purchase, juried by Barbara Haskel Whitney Museum of American Art
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
2005
Louis Comfort Tiffany Award Nomination
2004
Joan Mitchel Foundation Award
2002
Individual Arts Fellowship, Virginia Commission for the Arts
2001
PMCNJ Printmaking Residency, Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerset, NJ
1996
Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, Mid-Atlantic NEA
One Month 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 (two-week collaboration)
1992
Award in the Visual Arts (AVA), Jurors: Luis Cancel, Suzanne Delehanty, Lizzetta Lefalle Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, Mid-Atlantic NEA
1991
The Awards in the Visual Arts (AVA) (Also nominated 1987, 1986, 1985, 1983)
Mayor’s Award for Excellence in an Artistic Discipline
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 & Humanities
Faculty Research Grant, Catholic University of America
1986
Southeast 7-SECCA/RJR Individual Artist Fellowship, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
1984
Individual Artist Award, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC
SELECTED EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, BROCHURES, BOOKS
2013
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: THE ARTIST’S WAY, Celadon Arts
2010
TRANSCENENTAL VISION, JAPANESE CULTURE AND CONTEPMORARY ART, Published by Celadon Inc., Monterey, CA
2009
TOM NAKASHIMA: SWITZER DIDSTINGUISHED ARTIST, The Switzer Art Center, Pensacola FL, interview by Janue Quick-to-See Smith
TOM NAKASHIMA: TWO DECADES, published by The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
2006
THE MISSING PEACE: ARTISTS & THE DALAI LAMA, published by The Committee of 100 & The Darai Lama Foundation
1999
INHEITORS OF A LEGACY: CHARLES LANG FREER AND THE WHASHINGTON AVANT- GARDE, Celadon Inc.
1997
ASSIMILATIONS, The Nippon Gallery, NY
Lee, Fleming, “Nakashima’s Skewed Screens,” THE WASHINGTON POST, WEEKEND
“East Meets West, Tom Nakashima,” THE WASHINGTON POST, Nov. 20.
Prokop, Alan, The Nature of Now, THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, July 29.
McCoy, Mary, “Nakashima’s Asian Fascination Unfolds,” THE WASHINGTON POST, Oct. 27.
1994
Fleming, Lee, “Continuum’ at Japan Information & Culture Center,” THE WASHINGTON POST, July 17.
Knight, Christopher, “Relocations in Long Beach,” LOS ANGELES TIMES, May 21
1991
Koplos, Janet, “Tom Nakashima at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery,” ART IN AMERICA, Oct. Vol. 79, No. 10
Machida, Margo, On Target: Tom Nakashima at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
1990
Welzenbach, Michael, “Nakashima Melding Cultures,” THE WASHINGTON POST, May 26
Gibson, Eric, “Skilled Techinician Blooms with Imagery, “THE WASHINGTON TIMES, May 26
Risatti, Howard, “Tom Nakashima, Washington Project for the Arts,” ARTFORUM, Vol. XIX, No. 2 October
Wood, Carol, “Tom Nakashima, WPA, ART PAPERS,” January
Guthrie, Derek, “Old Symbols, New Myths, an Interview with DC Artist Tom Nakashima”
Swift, Mary, “Interview with Tom Nakashima,” THE WASHINGTON REVIEW, April-May, Vol. XV, No. 6
Goggins, Alison, “Tom Nakashima,” WASHINGTON PROJECT FOR THE ARTS NEWSLETTER, Spring
1989
Finnegan, Patrick, Washington, DC, CONTEMPORANEA, November Vol. II, No.8
Finnegan, Patrick, “Tom Nakashima: Anton Gallery,” NEW ART EXAMINER, September.
Welzenbach, Michael, “Tom Nakashima at Anton,” THE WASHINGTON POST, Jun. 17
1988
Frank, Patrick, “Significant Movement,” THE NEW ART EXAMINER, Oct. 1988 Vol. 16, No. 2
1986
Allene, Jane Addams, “Top Picks, Nakashima at Anton,” THE WASHINGTON TIMES, Oct. 17
Fleming, Lee, “Tom Nakashima, Anton Gallery,” ART NEWS, Dec., p.36, Vol. 85, No. 10
1985
Fleming, Lee, “The Washington Show,” ART NEWS, Oct., p.117
Richard, Paul, “Contrast at the Corcoran,” THE WASHINGTON POST, May 11
Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY, Jul. 20
1984
Fleming, Lee, “Tom Nakashima: Paintings,” THE WASHINGTON REVIEW, Jun/Jul., pp.23-24
Welzenbach, Michael, “Vision of the Bomb,” THE WASHINGTON POST, Dec. 11
Allen, Jane Addams, “Sing with Rich Color,” THE WASHINGTON TIMES, Apr. 12
Forgey, Ben, “Paintings by Tom Nakashima,” THE WASHINGTON POST, Apr. 12
1982
Fleming, Lee, “Tom Nakashima at Henri,” IMAGES & ISSUES, Sep-Oct., Vol. 3
1981
Elliot, David, Review, CHICAGO SUN TIMES, Feb. 15
Lewis, Jo Ann, “Tom Nakashima at Henri,” THE WASHINGTON POST, Sep. 28
1980
Forgey, Ben, Paintings by Tom Nakashima at Henri, THE WASHINGTON STAR, Sep. 28
1978
Conversations with Nakashima, PLUCKED CHICKEN 2
PROFFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, PANELS
2013
Visiting Artist, Walter Gropius Master Artist Series, Switzer Art Center, Pensacola, FL
2008
Guest Artist, Clemson University, Clemson. SC
Guest Artist, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
2007
Guest Artist, Painted Screens Workshop, Penland School for Crafts, Penland, TN
Guest Artist, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
Guest Artist, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2006
Guest Artist, editioned prints at Harvey Littleton Studio, worked with Master printer
Judith O’Rourke, Littleton Studio, Spruce Pine, NC
Board Member, Steeringg Committee, MOCA-GA, Artist Resource Council (ARC) 2003
(thru 2009) The Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art (GHIA), Augusta, GA
2003
Panelist, Dialogues With Asian American Artists, Moderators Bert Winther Tamaki and Louise Cort, Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery and Arthur M. Sackler National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC
1997
Guest Artist, Painted Screens Workshop, Art New England, Bennington, College, Bennington, VT
1996
Juror for painting applicant, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
Guest Artist, Mark Patsfall Graphics, Cincinnati, OH, Print editioning
1995
Guest Lecturer, Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY, October 24
Guest Artist, Painted Screens Workshop, Art New England, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Panelist, Cultural Identities in the Making of Art: Asian Pacific American Perspectives, April 21
The Smithsonian’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Committee, S. Dillon
Ripley Center, Washington D.C.
Guest Speaker, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Guest Speaker, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
Guest Artist, David Adamson Editions, executed Iris Print for The Washington Portfolio
Artist Residency, The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
Guest Artist, Painted Screens Workshop, Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD
Board Member, Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD
1994
Guest Artist, Edition of 50 prints tot raise funds for Greenpeace, published by Teplitzky & Scott Fine Arts at Mark Patsfall Graphics, Cincinnati, OH.
Visiting Artist, print editioning, Island Press, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Guest Speaker, American University, Washington DC.
Guest Speaker, Georgetown University, Levine School Washington, DC.
Committee to Award Distinguished Body of Work, College Art Association.
RCIP, Rutgers University, print editioning
Guest Artist and Critic, Baltimore Institute of Art.
1993
Exhibition Director, Catalog Contributor and Panel Moderator for Symposium, CONTINUUM: CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS, Embassy of Japan, Japan Information and Culture Center, Washington, DC
Guest Artist: Workshop on Japanese Screen Construction, Pyramid Atlantic.
Panelist, Asian American Arts Conference, Identity and Asian American Artist, Providence College, Providence, RI
Guest Speaker, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC.
Visiting Artist, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Board Member, Washington Project for the Arts
1992
Panelist: Asian Identities in Art, College Art Association, Chicago, IL
Guest Artist: Workshop on byōbu Japanese Screen Construction, Split Rock Arts Program, University of Minnesota.
Panelist for WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Arts-Painting
1991
Guest Speaker, Lecture to Museum staff, SAAM, Washington, DC
Panelist for Painting Fellowships, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.
Board Member, Washington Project for the Arts.
Board Member, Pyramid Atlantic
1988
Panelist, Washington Project for the Arts
1987
Panelist, “Aesthetics”, Coalition of Wash. Artist, symposium at Cocoran Gallery of Art
Guest, Panorama, Maury Povich Show, WTTG TV, Washington, DC
1985
Lecture for USIA, Foreign Service Personnel (also 1986), Washington, DC
Guest Lecturer, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Guest Lecturer, George Washington University, Washington, DC
1982
Guest Lecturer, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
(formerly at Corcoran Gallery of Art) Washington, DC
Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
The New DC Convention Center, Washington, DC
The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
Rutger’s University, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Nelson Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tucson, AZ
The Anna Lamar Switzer Art Center, Pensacola Junior College, FL
Emory Univ, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, GA
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Ft Wayne, IN
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Indiana State University, IN
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Nelson Fine Art Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Southern Illinois Univ. Museum, Carbondale, IL
Sunrise Fine Art Museum, Charleston, WV
Swarthmore College, Peace Museum, PA
John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
The Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV
Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Western Development Corporation, Washington, DC
Eric Colbert & Associates, Architects, Washington, DC
Furioso Development, Washington, DC
Furioso Vineyards, Dundee, OR
Merrill Lynch, Washington, DC
SOM Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Chicago, IL
UNITAS, Kofu, Japan
YES Corp, Kofu, Japan