The Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts in Pensacola, Fla., has selected Mr. Tom Nakashima, ASU’s William S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Art, as their 2009 Switzer Distinguished Artist. Accompanying the honor is an exhibition of his work, which will be on display through March 13.
“Out of all the talented artists in the country, I am very honored to have been chosen for this recognition,” says Professor Nakashima.
A native of Seattle, Mr. Nakashima is an internationally renowned printmaker and painter who has displayed his work in over 30 solo exhibitions that include Tom Nakashima: A Retrospective, The Washington Project for the Arts; Screens, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation; Henri Gallery and Anton Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Yamanashi Museum of Art, Kofu, Japan; Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York City; Horwitch LewAllen, Santa Fe; Balkin Fine Arts, Chicago, and Teplitzky & Scott Fine Arts, Cincinnati.
His work is in over 50 permanent, public collections in such galleries as the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, the Jersey City Museum, and The Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University.
Mr. Nakashima’s work has been reviewed in hundreds of publications including Art Forum, Art in America, ArtNews, The New Art Examiner, Art Papers, New American Paintings, The Washington Review of the Arts, The Washington Post, Museum & Arts Washington, Images & Issues, The Chicago Sun Times, Dossier, Contemporânea, and others. In addition to art publications, his work has been reproduced in The Paris Review, Elle, Southern Living, and House Beautiful.
He has received numerous awards and honors including an artist award from the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities; The Mayor’s Award for Excellence in an Artistic Discipline, Washington, D.C.; Printmaking Fellowship, Virginia Commonwealth University; Individual Artist Fellowship, Virginia Commission for the Arts; National Printmaking Fellowship, Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking; Faculty Research Grant, The Catholic University of America; MidAtlantic Visual Arts Fellowship; Print Residency, the Printmaking Council of New Jersey; and Residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz.
Mr. Nakashima has been a professor at August State for seven years. He received his bachelor’s degree from Loras College and earned his Master of Fine Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Notre Dame.
Jan 11, 2009
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