PhD East Asian Studies, New York University, USA (present)
MA Visual Culture, Lund University, Sweden
BFA Art & Design California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, USA
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2024 Ishibashi Foundation / Japan Foundation Fellowship for Research on Japanese Art Tokyo, Japan
2024 Patricia Dunn Lehrman Fellowship | American Art History New York, USA
2023 Japan Foundation | Specialized Research Activities in Japan for Cultural Specialists Osaka, Japan
2023 Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation | Curatorial Fellowship New York, USA
2021 apexart | NYC Curatorial Open Call New York, USA
2021 PoNJA-GenKon & Asia Art Archive in America | PoNJA Wikipedia Initiative Fellowship New York, USA
2020 Japan Foundation | Language Program & Research Grant for Cultural Specialists Osaka, Japan
2020 University of Hawai'i | Edward Seidensticker Best Japan Paper Award Honolulu, USA
PUBLICATIONS
“Art Festivals in Japan: Fueling Revitalization, Tourism, and Self Censorship” Contemporary Japan, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 7-19. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2024.2312762.
"Adults and Infantilized Youths: The Image of the Child as a Vehicle of Japanese Pan-Asianism in War Picture Postcards," Review of Japanese Culture and Society, Special Issue: Empires in Motion, Cultures of Crossing: The Cultural Production of East Asian and Transpacific Diasporas from Nikkei to Zainichi, Forthcoming 2024.
“Contemporary Japanese Art: Between Globalization and Localization,” Arts and the Market, Special Issue: Arts Marketing in Asia, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2018.
“Post-Disaster Recovery Through Art: A case study of Reborn-Art Festival in Ishinomaki, Japan", Masters Thesis, Lund University Division of Art and Visual Studies, 2018
CONFERENCES + TALKS
2024 College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Chicago, USA
Panel: Between History and Recollection: Asia-Pacific War Memory in Contemporary Japanese Art
Paper: Power in the Recoil: Art Censorship in Japan from the 1990s to now
2023 Special Screening and Artist Talk: Soni Kum's Morning Dew
Co-sponsored by the NYU Department of East Asian Studies and the Asian Film and Media Initiative in the Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, USA
Paper: ‘Morning Dew: The Stigma of Being Brainwashed’
2022 Art In the Countryside Symposium: German Institute Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan
Theme: on Art and Regional Revitalization through Case Studies From Japan
Paper: Art Festivals in Japan: Fueling Revitalization, Tourism, and Self-Censorship
2020 School of Asian and Pacific Studies Graduate Conference: University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, USA
Theme: Stories of Movement in Asia: Boundaries and Exile
Paper: Japan at a Crossroads: Art, Aesthetics, and the Political
2020 Critical Tourism Studies Asia Pacific Conference: Wakayama University, Japan
Theme: Tourism in Troubled Times: Responsibility, Resistance and Resurgence in the Asia Pacific
Paper: Art Festivals in Japan: Fueling Revitalization, Tourism, and Self-Censorship
2019 Collaboration and Community-Building in Contemporary Art Workshop: Aarhus University, Denmark (Supported by the Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education
Theme: Site, Material, and Medium in Socially Engaged Art
Paper: If you could be reborn, what would you like to become? and screening of Utsusemi Crush! (Kyun-Chome, 2017)
2018 Arts in Society Conference: Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada
Theme: How art makes things happen – Situating social practice in Research, Practice, and Action
Paper: Contemporary Art and Contemporaneity within Art History: Japanese Movements for Revitalization
2018 Visiting Scholar Research Presentation & Film Screening: University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, USA (Co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Program and Center for Japanese Studies).
Paper: Artists Respond to 3.11: The Great East Japan Earthquake and Contemporary Art and screening of Utsusemi Crush! (Kyun-Chome, 2017) and Seachange (Zakkubalan, 2017)
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
Fall 2022 Teaching Assistant, Asian Pacific Americans (APA) Cultures and Contexts
New York University, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
Summer 2023 Adjunct Instructor, Art of the Diaspora: Between Japan and the US
New York University, Department of East Asian Studies
Fall 2022 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Japanese Culture and Contexts
New York University, Department of East Asian Studies
Summer 2021 Adjunct Instructor: 21st Century Japanese Art: Contemporary shifts before and after 3/11
New York University, Department of East Asian Studies
Spring 2021 Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Japanese Culture and Contexts
New York University, Department of East Asian Studies
Fall 2020 Course Assistant: Korean Culture and Society through K-POP
New York University, Department of East Asian Studies
2016 - 2019 Guest Lecturer: Arts and Culture Guest Lecturer
Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS), Stockholm Program
2014 - 2015 Assistant English Language Teacher & Faculty Advisor
Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET)
Ayabe City Senior High School and Kōgyo Engineering High School, Ayabe, Japan
SELECTED ARTICLES
The Energy From Within: An Interview with South Korean Artist Hyon Gyon in The Forumist Magazine, Stockholm 2017
A Moment of Reflection: An Interview with Japanese Artist Shinji Ohmaki in The Forumist Magazine, Stockholm 2017
Arrivals: Democratizing Sweden's Art World in The Forumist Magazine, Stockholm 2017
Embodying Time: A Spotlight on Tokyo's we+ Design Studio, in The Forumist Magazine, Stockholm 2017