Augusta, Ga. – Internationally renowned artist Tom Nakashima, Augusta State’s William S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Art, will present a solo exhibition in the university’s New Space Gallery titled The Last Seven Years at ASU.  The exhibition opens on Thursday, Jan. 14, with a reception at 5 p.m. and will be on display through Feb. 11.

Mr. Nakashima has had over 30 solo exhibitions at galleries and museums throughout the United States and Japan. His work is included in over 50 public collections including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Jersey City Museum, the High Museum of Art, the Morris Museum, and galleries at the University of Notre Dame, Rutgers University, and  Arizona State University.

He is a frequent lecturer at universities and arts organizations throughout the nation and Japan, and among those are the College of William & Mary, Virginia Commonwealth University, the College Art Association, American University, George Washington University, the University of Maryland, the Smithsonian Institution, and many more.

Mr. Nakashima’s art has been reviewed or written about in hundreds of publications internationally including Art Forum, Art in America, Art News, the New Art Examiner, Art Papers, New American Paintings, the Washington Review of the Arts, the Washington Post, the New York Nichibei, the Washington Times, Museum & Arts Washington, Images & Issues, the Chicago Sun Times, the Washington Star, Dossier and Contemporanea. In addition to art publications, his work has been reproduced in the Paris Review, Elle, Southern Living and House Beautiful.

Among the honors and recognition he has received is the 2004 Joan Mitchell Award for Painters and Sculptors, which came with a $20,000 grant for the advancement of his work. He serves on the advisory board of Pyramid Atlantic Center for the Print, Paper and the Book, and for several years he served on the board of the Washington Project for the Arts and was a member of the Steering Committee for the Washington Coalition of Artists.

Mr. Nakashima received his bachelor’s degree from Loras College and both his Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Notre Dame. For more information, call ASU’s art department at 706-667-4888.
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