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Visual Arts -- Exhibitions
2005
- "Nikkei-Latin American Artists of the 20th Century" (Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center, February 17-April 29, 2005).
- Roger Hamilton, "Latin American art with Japanese roots". IDBAmérica: Magazine of the Inter-American Development Bank, February 2005.
- Roger Hamilton, "Arte latinoamericano con raíces japonesas". BIDAmérica: Revista del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Febrero 2005.
- "Selected art works –painting, drawing, engraving and installation– by 10 artists of Japanese descent from Argentina (Kasuya Sakai), Brazil (Tikashi Fukushima, Manabu Mabe, Tomie Ohtake, Yutaka Toyota and Kazuo Wakabayashi), Mexico (Luis Nishizawa) and Peru (Arturo Kubotta, Carlos Runcie Tanaka and Venancio Shinki)."
2004
- "Lasting Beauty: Miss Jamison and the Student Muralists" (traveling exhibition, 2004-05)
- Jane Schneider, "Ending the Silence". Memphis Magazine, February 2003. Article on Jamie Vogel.
- Mabel Rose Jamison ("Jamie") Vogel (d.1994) taught art from 1943-1945 at the Rohwer concentration camp to Japanese-American children interned there. Lasting Beauty showcases the only remnants of an ambitious mural project undertaken by eight of her students -- preliminary paintings executed on sheets of cloth, saved for decades by Jamison herself. The exhibition premiered in Arkansas (September 2004) as part of Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in World War II Arkansas.
- "Ciclo - Linha Imaginária" (Centro Cultural São Paulo, August 11-September 19, 2004)
- "A mostra reune trabalhos de artistas de diversos países e faz parte do Projeto de Intercâmbio Cultural Linha Imaginária, promovida pela Secretaria Municipal de Cultura. Dois nikkeis estão na lista dos artistas que apresentarão seus trabalhos: Roberto Okinaka e Lilia Kawakami." -- NippoBrasil.com
- 渡る道 ― 戦後移民アーチスト８人の歩み開催 （サンパウロ総領事館多目的ホール、2004年9月23日－10月3日）
- 戦後ブラジル日本人移民の画家－近藤敏さん（１９６０年渡伯）と若林和夫さん（１９６１年渡伯）、金子兼一さん（１９６０年渡伯）、廣田健一さん（１９７３年渡伯）、越石幸子さん（１９６５年渡伯）、楠野友繁さん（１９６０年渡伯）、鈴木幸男さん（１９６２年渡伯）、豊田豊さん（１９６０年渡伯）－8人の作品を展示。
2003
- "A Arte Contemporânea Nipo-Brasileira – Gerações" (Espaço de Artes Unicid, Universidade Cidade de São Paulo, October 15-November 14, 2003)
- "A mostra apresenta a produção recente de artistas descendentes japoneses de várias gerações. São eles, os isseis, Kimi Nii e Futoshi Yoshizawa, os nisseis, Takashi Fukushima, Lydia Okumura, Ayao Okamoto, Roberto Okinaka, Ademar Shimabukuro, Herman Takasey e James Kudo, o sansei Cláudio Matsuno e os mais jovens descendentes Débora Ando e Breno Tamura, que nos últimos anos têm se destacado no cenário da arte brasileira e internacional, participando de importantes exposições..."
- "1942: Luggage from Home to Camp" (Japanese American Museum of San Jose, Summer 2003)
- "1942: Luggage From Home to Camp is a collaboration between the Japanese American Museum and artist Flo Oy Wong. 1942 showcases the stories of six Japanese American residents, Lola Tanaka Abe, Elsie Mayeda Honda, David M. Sakai, Eiichi Edward Sakauye, Esau Shimizu, and Misao Yamano Shiotsuka, who were interned during World War II and now reside in San Jose. This exhibit uses the suitcase as a symbol of the internment experience and as a means to create a legacy of remembrance and healing."
- Review: Annie Nakao, "After six decades, the luggage that Japanese Americans carried with them to internment camps at the start of World War II has become a reminder of those days of infamy". San Francisco Chronicle (August 16, 2003).
- "Using actual luggage taken to camp in 1942, Oakland artist Flo Oy Wong's multimedia exhibition of six suitcases, representing Sakauye and five other San Jose Japanese Americans, reflects the physical reality of the harsh restrictions forced on the internees -- they could take only what they could carry -- and serves as a metaphor for the traumatic emotional baggage they carried in those frightening times and for many years afterward."
- Exposição Arte Nipo-Brasileira de Geração em Geração (Garagem de Arte, Porto Alegre, September 7, 2002-May 8, 2003)
- Exhibition notes: web site commemorating 40 years of Japanese immigration to Brazil following the arrival of the steamer Aruzentina Maru on 11 May 1962. (Portuguese)
- "A exposição apresenta trinta obras de artistas plásticos importantes como Manabu Mabe, Tomie Ohtake, Tikashi Fukushima, Bin Kondo e Yutaka Toyota, acompanhados dos trabalhos de seus filhos, promovendo um encontro de gerações."
2002
- "Cane Crossings: Artists' Perspectives on Sugar in Hawai'i" (Makawao, Hawai'i; Hui No'Eau Visual Arts Center, March 9-April 20, 2002)
- Review: Christie Wilson, "Artists consider sugar's past and present in exhibit". Honolulu Advertiser, March 7, 2002.
- "[Carol Kouchi] Yotsuda's ceramic, textile and multimedia works for "Cane Crossings" pay tribute to plantation life and, in particular, to the Japanese women who persevered over their hardscrabble existence."
- "From Meiji to the New Millennium: Japanese Americans in Oregon" (Portland, Oregon; Portland Art Museum, July 16-September 22, 2002)
- Press release: "Japanese American history art project opens at Portland Art Museum" (Spirit Mountain Community Foundation)
- "Crafting History: Arts and Crafts from America's Concentration Camps" (Los Angeles, Japanese American National Museum, November 16, 2002-May 4, 2003)
2001
- "Legacy: Facets of Island Modernism" (Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, closed October 21, 2001)
- Review: Suzanne Tswei, "New exhibit honors senior Japanese artists in islands". Honolulu Star-Bulletin, September 16, 2001.
- "'These 11 Japanese-American artists are the bedrock of everything that's happened in the second half of the century in island art making,' said academy Director George Ellis."
- Review: Nathalie Parkvall, "'Legacy': Japanese, roots, modernism in Hawaii art". Kalamalama, vol. 25, no. 8, September 2001.
- "The work of 11 local senior Japanese-American artists is currently displayed as part of Legacy: Facets of Island Modernism at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. The exhibition consists of various media: paintings, works on paper, and sculptures – ceramic, metal, and wood. These reflect the confined influences of the artists’ Japanese heritage and the growth of American modernism in Hawai‘i in the 20th century."
- "Arte Nipo-Brasileira. Momentos" (Expaço Euroart, São Paulo, September 11-October 1, 2001)
- “Arte Nipo-Brasileira. Momentos” documenta, a partir da década de 30, a produção dos artistas nipo-brasileiros e de seus descendentes, destacando a efetiva contribuição destes para as artes plásticas no Brasil, em especial, a realizada na cidade de São Paulo. A exposição, que tem curadoria de João J. Spinelli, conta com cerca de 100 obras entre esculturas e pinturas. Além de São Paulo, “Arte Nipo-Brasileira - Momentos” deve passar pelo Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Paris e até mesmo pelo Japão."
- "I Ro Ha (Ni): Narrative Playgrounds of New Nikkei Art" (Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery Satellite, Vancouver, August 1-August 12, 2001)
- "Pointing out that the show's five artists represent everyone from recent immigrants to third-generation Japanese Canadians (or "nikkei"), [Michael Tora Speier] adds: "There are all these different experiences and all these other people coming in now, and the community has to start using all of its reflections and talking about it to be contemporary and up-to-date."
1999
- "Resilient Images: Reflections on Internment" (San Francisco, National Japanese American Historical Society, closed May 31, 1999)
- Artworks by Katherine Aoki, Ellen Keiko Bepp, James Cline, Carolyn and James Grew-Sheridan, David Izu, Ken Kaji, Chiura Obata, Ruth Okimoto, Ben Sakoguchi, Jos Sances, Roger Shimomura, Henry Sugimoto, Gayle Tanaka and Takeshi Yamamoto.
1996
- "Five Generations - Images of Japanese Canadians" (Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario, October 5, 1996-November 9, 1998).
- The exhibition traces the history of Japanese Canadian settlement across the country from the turn of the century to the present day. Five Generations draws on archival material, personal artifacts, and a video by internationally acclaimed filmmaker Jesse Nishihata that documents the vitality of Vancouver's Japanese Canadian community in 1939. As well, the exhibition features portraits by contemporary photographers Andrew Danson and Tamio Wakayama and 10 moving personal accounts in which Japanese Canadians describe how they experienced and perceived the historic events of their times.
- NB: The exhibition was later deposited on permanent loan at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, which produced an on-line exhibition.
1995-2003
- "Finding Family Stories" (Los Angeles, Japanese American National Museum)
- "The project is based on the premise that cultural institutions representing different ethnic communities in Los Angeles can learn from each other both organizationally and culturally by conceptualizing and working together on a project. Each year the project culminates with an exhibition, and extensive educational and public programs. The exhibition features the work of contemporary artists who explore cultural identity through the interpretation and incorporation of family stories and memories in their work."
1992
- "The View from Within: Japanese-American Art from the Internment Camps 1942-1945" (Los Angeles, UCLA Wight Art Gallery, October 13-December 6, 1992)
- UCLA Instructional Media Production archives. Video guided tour of the exhibition by curator Karin Higa (31:25).
- A selection of works from the exhibition, scanned from the published catalogue, is available on the web site of Rhonda Leigh Willers.
On-Line Exhibitions
- "Our Mothers' Patterns" (Japanese Canadian National Museum)
- Explores the history of sewing and dressmaking in the Japanese Canadian community, both as a household necessity and, for many Japanese Canadians excluded from business opportunities and professions, a crucial source of income.