Tom Nakashima

Tom Nakashima is an internationally exhibited artist who has had over 30 solo exhibitions. His work has appeared or been reviewed in Art in America, Artforum International, Art News, The Washington Post, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Times, The New Art Examiner, Southern Accents and Elle Magazine.

He has received numerous awards and fellowships including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painters and Sculptors and Virginia Art Commissions Individual Arts Fellowship. He has been twice awarded a Mid Atlantic Arts Fellowship and won a District of Columbia Arts Commission Fellowship three times.

His work is in the permanent collections of The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian's American Art Museum, L'Hermitage and numerous other museums. Nakashima is a Professor Emeritus from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He is presently serving a five year term as The William S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Art at Agusta State University in Augusta, Georgia.