TOM NAKASHIMA 

tomnakashima63@gmail.com

5815 Franklin Pike SE, Floyd, VA 24091 USA

BORN Seattle, Washington

EDUCATION B.A. Loras College
M.A. University of Notre Dame
M.F.A. University of Notre Dame
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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.
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 Distuingished Artist Exhibition, The Anna Lamar Swittzer Center for Art, Pensacola, FL.
2008 Tom Nakashima: Berryville Treepiles & Structures, Selby Galllery,
Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
2007 Tom Nakashima: Two Decades, The Morris Museum of Art.
Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State U, Portland Oregon
2004 Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, GA.
2003 Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA.
2001 Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.
1999 Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NYC, NY.
Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.
1996 Teplitzky & Scott Fine Arts, Cincinnati, OH.
Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.
1995 Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY.
Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NYC.
Horwitch LewAllen, Santa Fe, NM.
Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.
1994 Pilgrimage-Folding Screens by Tom Nakashima, Sasakawa Peace Foundation,
Washington, DC, catalog essay by Jane Addams Allen.                                                        Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.
Waiting for Shinshin, Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC, curator, Alan
Prokop.
1993 Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.
1991 Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NYC, NY.
Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.
1990 Tom Nakashima: 1984-1990, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC
curator, Lynn Schmidt (catalog).
Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.
1988 Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, Japan.
Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.
1987 Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.
1986 College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.
Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.
1984 Henri Gallery, Washington, DC.
1982 Henri Gallery, Washington, DC.
1981 Salve Regina Gallery, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.
Barbara Balkan Fine Art, Chicago, IL.
1980 Henri Gallery, Washington, DC.
1979 Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV.
1971 Merton Boyd Gallery. Columbus, OH.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Arboreal,, The Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Margo Crutchfield Curtor at large
2018 Selections from the permanent collection, Lincoln Gallery 3rd floor, SAAM (The
Smithsonian American Art Museum., “Sanctuary with Western Sunset, 1991, 8” x 9”, o/c
2015 Gandingan: Tom Nakashima, Awang Damit Ahmad & Yusof Ghani, Tapak Gallery, Shah Alam, Selangorr, Malaysia
2013 Joseph Campbell: The Artist’s Way, a collaboration between The Joseph Campbell Foundation, Opus Archives, Celadon Arts and The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA, curated by Gail Enns (catalog).
2010 Transcendental Vision: Japanese Culture and Contemporary Art, The Independent, Sand City, CA, a collaboration between the JACL, Celadon Arts and Sand City, 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, Savannah, GA and the Morris Museum of Art, Aususta, GA.
2006 The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, The Folwer Museum of Culture & History, UCLA http://gallery.tmpp.org/gallery/en/index.jsp World tour in Europe, Asia and US thru 2011.
Coast to Coast, Anton Gallery’s Hawthorne Mansion, Monterey, CA.
Within State Lines, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA-GA),
curated by Annette Cone-Skelton.
2005 Contemporary Landscape: Crossing Boundaries, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, curated by June Lambla. <http://sierraclubstories.org/stories/people/june-lambla.asp&gt;
2003 Off The Press, Southeast Museum of Photography, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, curated by Sarah Tanguy (catalog). 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA.
2002 Faculty Show, FAC Gallery, Augusta State University.
Faculty Show, Salve Regina Gallery, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.
2001 Prints & Prints, Denise Bibro Fine Arts, NYC, NY.
Inheritors of a Legacy: Charles Lang Freer and the Washington Avant- Garde, Longwood Center for Visual Arts, Longwood College, Longwood, VA.
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,
Continum, The Japan Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan, Wash, DC, curated by Gail Enns, essay by Nora Heiman (catalog).
Sans Titre, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO.
1998 Summer Group Exhibition, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NY, NY.
Selections from Soho – Steinbaum Krauss Gallery Artists, Fort Lewis College,
Durango, CO.
Structures, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH.
1997 Assimilations, The Nippon Gallery, NYC, NY, curated by Gail Enns, esay by Janet Koplos (catalog).
Crossing Over, Changing Places, Corcoran Museum of American Art, Hemicycle Gallery,
Washington DC, tour through 1997, (catalog).
1996 Barriers and Enclosures, Artspace, New Haven, CT.
Remote Sensing, 24th Southern Graphics Council Conference, West Virginia University.
1995 Slovenian Print Biennial, Lubliana, Slovenia, (catalog).
WPA’s 20 Chairs Endowment, Invitational, Washington Project for the Arts, Wash, 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.
Journeys East, Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD.
1994 New Narratives, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA.
Memories of Childhood: so we’re not the Cleavers or the Brady Bunch, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NYC, USA travel tour through 1997 (catalog).
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, Summit, NJ (catalog).
Washington Portfolio, David Adamson, Washington, DC.
Sustainable Earth; A Greenpeace Fund Benefit, Remba Gallery, West Hollywood, CA and Deson-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL.
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 Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, March 8 – April 23
Narratives of Loss: The Displaced Body, Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
WI March 26 – May 16. Curated by Michal Ann Carley (catalog).
Multicultural Americana, Florida Community College at Jacksonville, Jacksonville Beach,
FL, curated by Carolyn M. Maynard.
1992 Relocation & Revisions: The Japanese American Internment Reconsidered, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, curated by Noriko Gamblin (catalog).
The Lady Aoi and Hanjo- Two Noh Plays by Yukio Mishima, Pacific Bridge Theatre Group
Smithsoniam Institution, Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC Floored Art, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NYC, travel tour through 1994
Crossing Over, Changing Places, Arts America Exhibition for the 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 Collage Unglued, North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, curated by Bernice Steinbaum, (catalog).
Washington Moscow Art Exchange, State Tretiakov Museum, USSR.
Other Voices: Mediating Between Ethnic Traditions and the Modernist Mainstream, Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art, Portland, ME.
Object d’Art, Contemporary Folding Screens, The Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA.
Tom Nakashima, (featured acquisition) National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (June-August).
Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (September-October).
Pfizer Corporation Collection, Curated by Museum of Modern Art Advisory, NYC, NY.
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, Roland Gibson Gallery, Potsdam, NY.
Drawings, Middendorf Gallery, Washington DC.

1990 The Decade Show, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY, (joint exhibition
including The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY and The Museum of
Contemporary Hispanic Art, NYC, NY(catalog). Essay Seeing Yellow 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 Aires, Argentina; Casa de Osambela, Lima, Peru; Martin Luther King Memorial Library, Washington, DC.
1988 Works on Paper by Washington Artists, Jane Haslem Gallery, DC.
Mary Anella Frank, John Figura and Tom Nakashima, Anton Gallery, DC.
10 Years of SECCA, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, SC.
1987 Southeast Seven 10, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, NC (catalog).
Southeast Seven 10, Cheekwood Arts Center, Nashville, TN.
1986 Beautiful Virus, curated by James Brinsfield, Anton Gallery, DC.
1985 The Washington Show, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Auction Show, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC.
No Compromise, Anton Gallery, DC.
Tradition and Innovation, Dimock Gallery, Washington University, Washington, DC.
Gallery Artists, Henri Gallery, DC (inclusive since 1979).
Washington Artists Self Portraits, Jane Haslem Gallery, DC.
Award Winners, DC Commission on Arts & Humanities, R St. Gallery, DC.
Atelier in America, Northern Illinois University, IL.
1984 Washington Project for the Arts, Auction Show, DC.
1983 Alexandria Sculpture Festival, Alexandria, VA.
Contemporary Chicago Lithography, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL.
1981 Hyatt Regency Purchase Competition, Washington, DC.
1979 West Virginia Juried Exhibition, Juried by G.Ortman, L. Lowery, and Paul
Smith (award for Excellence), Charleston, WV.
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 Distuingished Artist Award, Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Pensecola, FL.
2006 Louis K. Bell Reseach Award for Outstanding Research, Augusta State University,
Augusta, GA.
2005 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award Nomination.
2004 Joan Mithchell Foundation Award.
2002 Individual Arts Fellowship, Virginia Commission for the Arts.
2001 PMCNJ Printmaking Residency, Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Sommerset, NJ.
2000 Printmaking Fellow, Celadon Arts., Virginia Commonwealth University, Richamond, VA.
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, & RCIP (two week collaborative project)
1992 Award in the Visual Arts (AVA), Jurors: Luis Cancel, Suzanne Delehanty, Lizzetta Lefalle- Collins, Donald Lipski and Thomas Sokolowski.
Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, Mid-Atlantic NEA.
1991 Nominated for The Awards in the Visual Arts (AVA)(Also nominated 1987,
1986,1985,1983 The Mayor’s Award for Excellence in an Artistic Discipline, Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly, Washington, DC
1997 Alpha Delta Gamma, Insturctor of the Month, The Catholic U of America.
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 and Humanities.
Faculty Research Grant, Catholic University of America.
1986 Southeast 7-SECCA/RJR Individual Artist Fellowship,
1985 Nominaton, The Howard Foundation Fellowship
1984 Individual Artist Award, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC.
SELECTED EXHIBITION CATALOGS, BROCHURES, BOOKS

2013 JOSEPH CAMBELL: THE ARTIST’S WAY, published by Celadon Arts.
2010 TRANSCENDENTAL VISION, JAPANESE CULTURE AND CONTEMPORARY ART,
2009 TOM NAKASHIMA: SWITZER DISTINGUISHED ARTIST, The Switzer Art Center,
Pensacola, FL
2007 TOM NAKASHIMA: BERRYVILLE TREEPILES & STRUCTURES, published by Selby
Gallery, Ringling School of Art.
TOM NAKASHIMA: TWO DECADES, The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
1999 INHERITORS OF A LEGACY: CHARLES LANG FREER AND THE WASHINGTON
AVANT- GARDE, Japanese Information & Culture Center , Washington, DC
Japan Information & Culture Centre, Embassy of Japan, Washington, DC, Published by Celadon Inc.,
1997 ASSIMILATIONS, The Nippon Gallery, NYC, NY, funded by Western Development Corp.
1994 PILGRIMAGE: FOLDING SCREENS BY TOM NAKASHIMA, Sasakawa Peace Foundation JAPAN: THE NATURE OF NOW (catalog), published by Spirit Square Center for Arts and Education, Charlotte, NC and Japan-America Society of Charlotte.
MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD…SO WE’RE NOT THE CLEAVERS OR THE BRADY
BUNCH published by Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NYC.
HOUSE SWEET HOUSE, published by New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit NJ.
1993 NARRATIVES OF LOSS: THE DISPLACED BODY, published by University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
CONTINUUM: CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS, published by Japan Information and
Culture Center, Washington, DC.
1992 RELOCATION & REVISIONS: THE JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT
RECONSIDERED by The Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA.
1991 OTHER VOICES: MEDIATING BETWEEN ETHNIC TRADITIONS AND THE
MODERNIST MAINSTREAM, Baxter Gallery, published by Portland School of
Art. COLLAGE UNGLUED, published by North Miami Center of Contemporary Art (COCA) Miami Florida.
CROSSING OVER/CHANGING PLACES, published BY The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA.
1990 THE DECADE SHOW, published by the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Arts, NY,
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, The Studio Museum of Harlem, NY.
TOM NAKASHIMA: 1984-1990, published by Washington Project for the Arts,
Washington, DC.
SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONs

2006 Jerry Cullum, Beyond boundaries, ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION, May 14th,
p. K6.
2002 Howard Risatti, Tom Nakashima at Anton Gallery, ARTFORUM, March, p. 143.
2001 Jessica Dawson, Tom Nakashima at Anton Gallery, THE WASHINGTON POST,
December
1999 Ferdinand Protzman, Rob Barnard, Tom Nakashima at Anton Gallery, WASHINGTON POST, December 23.
H.B. Crothers, Tom Nakashima, CROTHERS QUARTERLY, Fall 1999 Vol. 1, No. 3.
O’Sullivan, Michael, Freer, to the Fourth Power, THE WASHINGTON POST, May 14, 1999, p. N 66, color reproduction.
Ferdinand Protzman, Artists Under the Freer’s Spell, THE WASHINGTON POST, May 6,.
Lawrence, Lee, Inheritors of a Legacy, INTERNET ARTRESOURCES, April 28.
Bradley, Jeff, Art Fills Nooks in Boulder, THE DENVER POST, January 28.
1998 Broadus-Garcia, Cassandra, Tom Nakashima-Finding Meaning, SCHOOLARTS MAG April, Vol. 97, No. 8, pp. 33-36.
Green, Frank, Echo Chamber, THE CLEVELAND FREE TIMES, Vol. 6, Issue 29, April 8-14, p. 39.
Wall, Donna Dorian, Paper Chase, SOUTHERN ACCENTS, May-June,
Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 122-128.
1996 ELLE, Spring Fashion Special, March 1996, p. 273, Vol. XI, No. 127 (illus, Big Orange).
Birke, Judy, Artspace puts up a few formidable ‘Barriers’ in show, NEW HAVEN
REGISTER,October 27, p. E1-E4.
Zimmer, William, Sculptural Installation of Large Intention, THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 3, 1996, p. 20.
Michael O’Sullivan, Local Artists Win Fellowships, THE WASHINGTON POST, July 15.
Kristen Hileman, Rebecca Philips Abbot, Reid McIntyre & Tom Nakashima, ARTICULATE, Vol. 2, Issue 4, June.
1995 Hemp, Christine, Tom Nakashima, Paintings, Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, THE, Nov.
Lee, Jackie, ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN VOICES, Vol 1, Premier issue, Spring 1995, p. 96.
ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL, October 1, listing with image reproduction.
Cleary, Manon, Journeys East: Lenore Miller, H.I. Gates, Takako Nagai & Tom Nakashima,
THE WASHINGTON REVIEW. December/January Vol.XXI, image reproduction
1994 THE PARIS REVIEW, Summer 1994, Illustration for Table of Contents pages
Addison, Christopher, Pyramid Atlantic, Fourteen Years of Collaboration, THE PRINT Riverdale MD
NEWS, Brown, Linda Luise Brown, Art: A Japanese Presence, CREATIVE
LOAFING, p. 13, October 8.
Burchard, Hank, Nakashima’s Skewed Screens, THE WASHINGTON POST, WEEKEND, September 23.
Fleming, Lee, East Meets West, Tom Nakashima, THE WASHINGTON POST, Nov. 20.
Prokop, Alan, The Nature of Now, THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, July 29.
Take Advantage of many feasts for the eyes this season, THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER,
September 11.
Deck, Gentry, An American Artist Searches for his Roots, PENTAGRAM, September 23, Vol 41, No. 38.
Fleming, Lee, Nakashima, Abbott at Anton, THE WASHINGTON POST, October 1.
Lewis, Jo Ann, The Medium is the Machine, THE WASHINGTON POST, Novembe 26.
McCoy, Mary, Nakashima’s Asian Fascination Unfolds, THE WASHINGTON POST,
October 27.
McGee, Monicah, Japan: The Nature of Now, BREAK, September 7-13.
Events at Spirit Square, NEW SPIRIT, newsletter for Spirit Square Center for Arts and
Education, July-August.
Japan: The Nature of Now, NEW SPIRIT, newsletter for Spirit Square Center for Arts and Education, September-October.
1994 Patterson, Tom, Artists draw on Japanese background, THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER,
September 18.
Smith, Dean, Images of Japan will fill 2 galleries this fall, THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, August 28.
Watkins, Eileen, Images of Houses Find Happy Home in Summit Exhibit, THE SUNDAY STAR LEDGER, May 22.
Screenworks I, WHERE WASHINGTON, November, p. 7.
Woerdehoff, Valorie, Stirring Us to Our Core, LORAS COLLEGE MAGAZINE, Dec. 2.
1993 Preisser, Alfred, Something entirely different, HELLO BELGRADE, Aug., 1993, Vol. 1,No 5.
Fleming, Lee, `Continuum’ at Japan Center, THE WASHINGTON POST, July 17.
Paine, Janice T., `Loss’ Generates Body of Art, THE MILWAUKEE SENTINEL, May 7.
Auer, James, UWM Show Targets White Males, THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL, April, 25.
Dorsey, John, Goucher Exhibit Shows Draw of Japanese and American Aesthetic,
THE SUN, MD, March 19-March 25.
Weeks, Ted, Lithographs and Americana, FOLIO WEEKLY, Issue 26, February 9.
Hyer, Ed. A., Taste of Japanese Art, THE QUINDECIM, April 9, 1993, p 6.
Parks, Cynthia, Multicultural Exhibit Shows Colorful Country’s Stripes, THE FLORIDA TIMES-UNION, Jacksonville, FL, January 22.
1992 Littlefield, Kinney, Searing Statements from Sansei, LONG BEACH PRESS TELEGRAM, May 10.
Knight, Christopher, Relocations in Long Beach, LOS ANGELES TIMES, May 21.
Washington Printmaking, THE WASHINGTON REVIEW, Vol. XVII, No. 2, August-
September, reproductions of the artist and his work.
1991 Gowen, Anne, Artist, Patrons Honored by Mayor, THE WASHINGTON TIMES,
November 1.
Hannan, Greg, Double Exposure, THE WASHINGTON CITY PAPER, November 29.
Kohen, Helen, Artist blend well as their art in collage exhibit, THE MIAMI HERALD,
October 6, p. 31.
Koplos, Janet, Tom Nakashima at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, ART IN AMERICA, October, Vol. 79, No. 10.
Littlehohn, Erica A, The Mayor’s Arts Awards: A Glittery Gala, THE COMMUNITY NEWS, October 31.
Machida, Margo, On Target: Tom Nakashima at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, THE NEW YORK NICHIBEI, March 7, Vol. XXXXVII, No. 2314.
Moran, Edward, Tom Nakashima finds sanctuary in a vital East-West aesthetic, THE NEW YORK NICHIBEI, February 7.
Suito, Makita, Tom Nakashima, GIFU SHIMBUN, Gifu Prefecture (Central Region),
TOKYO TIMES, Tokyo, KYOTO SHIMBUN, Kyoto, NIIGATA NIPPO, Niigata Prefecture
(Northern Region), KITA NIPPON, Toyama Prefecture (Northern Region),
SHINANO-MAINICHI SHIMBUN (Nagano Prefecture), Central Region, Japan.
Wilson, Janet, New and Improved, Museum of American Arts, THE WASHINGTON
POST, November 29.
Yasui, Todd Allen, Arts Beat: Mayor’s Cultural Pep Talk, THE WASHINGTON POST,
November 4.
1990 Welzenbach, Michael, Nakashima Melding Cultures, THE WASHINGTON POST, May 26.
Gibson, Eric, Skilled Technician Blooms with Imagery, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, May
26.
Risatti, Howard, Tom Nakashima, Washington Project for the Arts, ARTFORUM, Vol. XIX,
No. 2, October.
McIntyre, Reid, Tom Nakashima, EYE WASH, June 1990, Vol. 2, No. 7.
Krasnow, Iris, M & AW/On Scene, MUSEUM & ARTS WASHINGTON,
September/October 1990, Vol.VI, No. 5.
Wood, Carol, Tom Nakashima, WPA, ART PAPERS, January.
Guthrie, Derek, Old Symbols, New Myths, an Interview with DC Artist Tom Nakashima, THE NEW ART EXAMINER, September, Vol. 18, No. 1.
1990 Welzenbach, Michael, Nakashima Melding Cultures, THE WASHINGTON POST, May 26.
Gibson, Eric, Skilled Technician Blooms With Imagery, WASHINGTON TIMES, May 26.
Fleming, Lee, Back to the Future, MUSEUM & ARTS/WASHINGTON, January/February,
Vol. VI, No. 1.
McIntyre, Reid, Tom Nakashima, Without Judgment, EYE WASH, December, Vol 3. No. 4.
Swift, Mary, Interview with Tom Nakashima, THE WASHINGTON REVIEW, April-May,
Vol. XV, No 6.
Gabriel, Mary, Foreign Influences, MUSEUM&ARTS WASH, May-June, Vol. VI, No 3.
Goggins, Alison, Tom Nakashima, WASHINGTON PROJECT FOR THE ARTS NEWS
LETTER, Spring.
THE WASHINGTON PRINT CLUB NEWSLETTER, Fall, Vol. 26, No. 4, cover image
1989 Finnegan, Patrick, Washington, DC, CONTEMPORANEA, November, Vol. II, No. 8.
Finnegan, Patrick, Tom Nakashima: Anton Gallery, NEW ART EXAMINER, September.
Fleming, Lee, Pilgrims Progress, MUSEUM & ARTS WASH, May/June, Vol V, No. 3.
Welzenbach, Michael, Tom Nakashima at Anton, THE WASHINGTON POST, June 17.
1988 Frank, Patrick, Significant Movement, THE NEW ART EXAMINER, Oct 1988 Vol. 16, No. 2.
1987 Frederick, Warren, The Politics of Pottery, CERAMICS MONTHLY, January, Vol. 35, No. 1.
Gilbard, Florence, Tom Nakashima, at the Anton Gallery, June 3, MUSEUM&ARTS, DC
May-June 1987, Vol. III, No. 3.
Maloney, Lawrence D., Crisis of Faith, DOSIER, March, Vol. 13, No. 3, p. 45.
Nakashima, Tom, Aesthetics: Personal Statements by artists and art historians, ARTISTS
COALITION LETTER, Fall, Washington, DC.
1986 Allen, 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. Coleman, Nicols, Tom Nakashima, THE WASHINGTON THEATER GUIDE, Fall/Winter
1985, thru February 1986, Edition 19.
1985 Fleming, Lee, The Washington Show, ART NEWS, October, p. 117.
Richard, Paul, Contrast at the Corcoran, THE WASHINGTON POST, May 11.
Forgey, Ben, Broken Social Compact, THE WASHINGTON POST, July 20.
Richard, Paul, Images of Dark Exuberance, THE WASHINGTON POST, August 17.
McCoy, Mary, 1984 and 1985 Recipients of the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities of the Individual Artists’ Grants in the Category of Visual Arts, THE NEW ART EXAMINER, November.
Morrison, Keith, Review, THE NEW ART EXAMINER, October.
Welzenbach, Michael. Nakashima is without peer in group exhibition, THE
WASHINGTON TIMES, July 18, p. 2 B.
Welzenbach, Michael, Visions of the Bomb, THE WASHINGTON POST, (interview),
December 11.
1984 Fleming, Lee, Tom Nakashima: Paintings, THE WASHINGTON REVIEW, June/July, pp.
23-24.
Weizenbach, Michael, Vision of the Bomb, THE WASHINGTON POSt, December 11.
Rost, Kerstin, Reviews, East Coast: Tom Nakashima, THE NEW ART EXAMINER,
July-August.
Allen, Jane Addams. Sing with Rich Color, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, April, 12.
Forgey, Ben, Paintings by Tom Nakashima, THE WASHINGTON POST, April, 12.
1982 Fleming, Lee, Tom Nakashima at Henri, IMAGES AND ISSUES, September-Oct, Vol. 3,
No. 2.
1981 Elliot, David, Review, CHICAGO SUN TIMES, February 15.
Lewis, Jo Ann, Tom Nakashima at Henri, THE WASHINGTON POST, June 25.
1980 Forgey, Ben, Paintings by Tom Nakashima at Henri, THE WASHINGTON STAR,
September 28
1978 Conversations with Nakashima, PLUCKED CHICKEN 2, February.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, PANELS

2013 Visiting Artist, Walter Gropius Master Artist Series, Switzer Art Center, Pensacola, FL.
2008 Guest Artist, Clemson University, Clemson, SC.
2008 Guest Artist, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL.
2007 Guest Artist, Painted Screens Workshop, Penland School for Crafts, Penland, TN.
2007 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 Masterprinter Judith O’Rourke, Littleton Studiiom, Spruce Pine, NC.
Board Member, Steering Committee, MOCA-GA, Artist Resorce Council (ARC) 2003 2004 – 2009, Board Member, The Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, 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, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
2001 Advisory Board Member (through 2009), Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD.
1997 Guest Artist, Painted Screens Workshop, Art New England, Bennington College,
Benningon, VT
Advisory Board Member, Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD.
1996 Juror for painting applicants, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY.
Guest Artist, Drake University, Des Moines, IA.
Guest Artist, Mark Patsfall Graphics, Cincinnati, OH, editioning prints published by Teplitzky & Scott Fine Arts.
Committee Member to Choose Distinguished Body of Work, College Art Association.
Guest Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.
1995 Guest Lecturer, Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY, October 24.
Guest Artist, Painted Screens Workshop, Art New England, Bennington College, Benningon, VT, July 30- August 5.
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, MICA,Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD.
Guest Artist, David Adamson Editions, executed Iris Print for The Washington Portfolio.
1995 Artist Residency (one month), The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, 1995
Guest Artist, Painted Screens Workshop, Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD.
Board Member, Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD.
1994 Guest Artist, Edition of 50 prints to raise funds for Greenpeace, published by Teplitzky & Scott Fine Arts at Mark Patsfall Graphics, Cincinnati, OH.
Visiting Artist, Print editioning, Island Pess, 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.
Guest Lecturer, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
RCIP, Rutgers University, print editioning
Guest Artist and Critic, Baltimore Institute of Art.
Board Member, Pyramid Atlantic.
1993 Exhibition Director, Catalog Contributor and Panel Moderator for Symposium, CONTINUM: CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS, Embassy of Japan, Japan Information and Culture Center, Washington, DC.
Guest Artist: Workshop on Japanese Screen Construction, Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD.
Panelist, Asian American Arts Conference, Identity and the Asian American Artist, Providence College, Providence, RI.
Guest Speaker, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, guest speaker.
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 (Co-chaired by Margo Machida and Moira Roth).
Guest Artist: Workshop on Japanese Screen Construction, Split Rock Arts Program, University of Minnesota.
Panelist for Special Projects Grants, NEA, Washington, DC.
NEA PANELIST, Advancement Grants, Washington, DC,.
Panelist for WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Arts-Painting, Western States Arts Federation (Statement reproduced in catalog).
Guest Artist, University of Maryland- College Park.
Board Member, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC.
Board Member, Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD
1991 Guest Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University of America, Richmond, VA.
Guest Speaker, Lecture to Museum staff, National Museum of American Art,
Washington, DC.
Guest speaker, (SAAM) Smithsonian American Art Museum, 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 Corcoran Gallery of Art
Panelist, The Politics of Pottery, discussion including Jane Addams Allen, Rob Barnard, Jack Troy, Terry Burns, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.
1986 Juror, Lloyd Kreeger Awards for student shows, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
Guest Lecturer, George Washington Univ, Washington DC.
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.
Guest Lecturer, Shepherd College, WV.
1983- 1982 Director, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC.
1982 Guest Lecturer, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
1981 Guest Lecturer and Exhibtor, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV.
1981 – 1973 Coordinator BFA/MFA Painting Program, West Virginia University.
1972 Guest Professor of Painting, University of Notre Dame, IA (summer).
Founder/Director, “Feldhaus 72”, University of Notre Dame, IA.
1972 – 1968 Head of Printmaking, Columbus College of Art/Design, OH.
1971 Guest Professor of Painting, Uniiversity of Notre Dame, IA (summer).
SELECTED MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Tapak Gallery, Shah Alam, Malaysia
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orlleans, 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
Drake University, Des Moines, IA
Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson, NC
Emory Univ, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, GA
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Ft Wayne, IN
Georgia Museum. of Art, Univ. 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
L’Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ
Michigan State Univ, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
Mott Community College, Flint, MI
Nelson Fine Art Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Sci.ence & Culture Center, Charleston, WV
Sheppard Fine Art Gallery, Carson City, NV
Southern Illinois Univ, Univ. Museum, Carbondale, IL
Sunrise Fine Art Museum, Charleston, WV
Swarthmore College, Peace Museum, PA
Teplitzky & Scott Fine Arts, Cincinnati, OH
The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
John and Mable Ringling Museum. of Art, Sarasota, FL
The Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV
University of Missouri, Rolla, MO
University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, NE
The Snite Museum, Univ. of Notre Dame, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
University of Utah, UT
Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Eric Colbert & Associates, Architecture, Washington, DC
Western Development Corp. Washington, DC
Morris Communications, Augusta, GA
Ashland Oil Corp, Ashland, KY
Cox and Adams, Chicago, IL
Western Development Corporation, Washington, DC
Eric Colbert & Assoc, Architects, Washington DC
AT&T, Washington, DC
Furioso Development, Washington, DC
Kuhn Paper Corp, Hagerstown, MD
Merrill Lynch, Washington, DC
Peat Marwick Mitchel, Chicago, IL
Shiff/Hardin and Waite, Chicago, IL
Shiff/Hardin and Waite, Washington, DC
Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Chicago, IL
Suffix Corp, Chicago, IL
The Eleven Collection, Chicago, IL
The Hyatt Regency, Arlington, VA
The Lenny Bocour Collection, NY, NY
Welna Frames, Chicago, IL
UNITAS, Kofu, Japan
YES Corp, Kofu, Japan
EMPLOYMENT

Professor Emeritus, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
William Morris Eminent Scholar Emeritus, Augusta University, Augusta, GA

2002 – 2010 Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia, William Morris S. Eminent Scholar in Art
2001-2002 The Catholic University of America, Chair
1981 – 2002 The Catholic University of America, Washington DC
1973-1981 West Virginia University
1968-1973 Columbus college of Art and Design, CCAD, Columbus, Ohio
1970-1971 University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (summer )