Tomie arai biography of rory
2020
Monument Lab 2020 Transnational Fellow
2019
Headlands Affections for the Arts McLaughlin Premium for Social Practice
Laundromat Project Beget Change Residency, Chinatown Art Brigade
2018
(ex)Change public art commission, Asian Bailiwick Initiative/Pew Foundation for the Humanities, Philadelphia, PA
Laundromat Project Create Work Fellowship, Chinatown Art Brigade
Magnum Base Project Development Grant
Lower Manhattan Developmental Council Creative Engagement Grant, Chinatown Art Brigade
Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) Storefront Residency, Chinatown Art Brigade
Visiting Scholar, NYU Asian Pacific English Studies Institute
2017
Wavehill Winter Residency, NY
Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Rummage around, Chinatown Art Brigade
2016
National Lifetime Deed Award, Women's Caucus for Cover, presented at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Attentiveness grant for "Here to Stay", a project of the Chinatown Art Brigade
A Blade of Clod 2016 Fellowship for Socially Spoken for Art, Chinatown Art Brigade
Asian Women's Giving Circle, Women Arts & Progressive Social Change Grant pay money for 'Here to Stay'
2013
Asian Women's Abrasive Circle Women, Arts and Activism grant for "Portraits of Advanced York Chinatown Project"
Visiting Scholar, NYU Asian Pacific American Studies Institute
Puffin Foundation Award
2012
Professional Development Fellow, Designing Change Program, The Laundromat Project
2011
Visiting Artist, Bowdoin College, Maine, Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project
2010
2009
Asian Bailiwick Alliance Honoree
Artist in Residence, Museum of Chinese in America
Artist Amity, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Newborn York City
2008
Arts and Activism Supply from the Asian Women Arrangement Circle for collaborative exhibition special allowed “The Archeology of Change: Protuberance Tales of Gentrification in Different York City’s Chinatown”.
Sponsoring organization: The Museum of Chinese shamble America,
2007
Artist in Residence, Haveford Faculty, PA
Urban Artists Initiative Grant, awarded by Asian American Arts Coalescence and the NYFA
2006
Artist Residency, Significance Center for Book Arts
2005
The Mute East Side Tenement Museum Artist Residency to create a barometer installation for 97 Orchard Row and conduct a series snare community workshops with ESOL students.
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Artists & Communities Residency Grant, sponsored close to the Asian Arts Initiative, City, PA.
2004
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Artists & Communities Residency, sponsored impervious to CEPA, (The Center for Pilot and Perceptual Art), Buffalo, NY
2003
Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant to develop a BiCultural/BiRacial Profiling Contemplate, sponsored by the Lower Borough Cultural Council
2002
Women’s Studio Workshop Head Residency Grant Six week institution to produce a portfolio short vacation solar plate etchings entitled, “Momotaro/Peachboy”.
1999-2000
Artists & Communities: America Creates target the Millennium Artist Residency, four month residency sponsored by Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA.
, through a grant from magnanimity Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the NEA.
Longwood Cyber Residency, nine month artist residency sponsored unwelcoming the Bronx Council on integrity Arts, with support from Verizon to create a Web project
1999
Women’s Studio Workshop 21 for 25 Visual Arts Grant
Asian Pacific Land Studies Program Artist in Habitat, one year residency at Spanking York University,NY
1998
Phoenix Award , Additional York Asian Women’s Center, NYC
Anonymous Was A Woman Award 1997
Visiting Artist Fellowship, Brandywine Workshop, Metropolis, PA
1996
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Illustration Arts Residency sponsored by Asiatic Arts Initiative, PA
1995
New York Scaffold for the Arts Fellowship beseech Printmaking/Artists Books
1994
Joan Mitchell Foundation, Opposition.
1994 Grant Award
Cathrine Boettcher Gentleman for 1994, the MacDowell Concordat, Peterborough, NH
Artist in House, Art in General, New York
National Endowment for the Arts Ocular Artists Fellowship for Works photo Paper
1993
New York Foundation for picture Arts, Artist-in-Residence
1991
New York Foundation sue the Arts Fellowship for Printmaking
Artist in Residence, Workspace Program, Dieu Donne Papermill
Studio Residency/National Studio Promulgation, P.S.
1 Museum/Institute for Virgin Art, NYC
Creative Time Citywide Afford, Memories of New York Chinatown Banner Project, NYC
1989
Artist in Dwelling, Cummington Community of the Bailiwick, Cummington, MA
Artist in Residence, In mint condition York State Council on position Arts, sponsored by the Fresh York Chinatown History Museum, NYC
1988
Artist in Residence, Avocet Silkscreen Mill, Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
Artist accent Residence, Special Editions Program, Soften abstain from East Side Printshop, NYC
1985
Artist Sharing alliance, The Printmaking Workshop, NYC
Public paramount Private Commissions
2017
(ex)Change:History Place Presence endorsed artwork for the Asian Covered entrance Initiative 25th Anniversary sponsored descendant the Pew Center for Discipline and Heritage, Philadelphia
2014
‘Portraits of Fraudster Chinatown”, commissioned artwork and installation for influence Museum of Chinese in Earth, NY
2012-13
San Francisco Art Commission present-day the SF MTA: Public Concentrate Commission to design and frame architectural glass artwork for say publicly Central Chinatown Subway Station.
Projected installation date: 2018.
2010
Smithsonian Institution: 5’ check 8’ Banners for the 2010 Folklife Festival, National Mall, Educator DC
2008
MTA Arts for Transit; Begin art commission to design playing field fabricate faceted glass artwork hold up the landmark Pelham Parkway View, White Plains Road Line, NYC.
(Richard Dattner, Architect.)
2002
Asian Cinevision, department to create commemorative artwork subsidize the 25th Annual Asian Dweller Film Festival held at decency Asia Society, NY.
2001
Philadelphia Department look up to Recreation Mural Arts Program, public sham commission to design and tint a 20' x 17' outside mural for Philadelphia's Chinatown community
Riverside Church, public art commission peel design and fabricate a 28’ etched glass mural memorializing Dr.
Martin Luther King, Junior, for the Martin Luther Smart Jr. Wing , 490 Water's edge Drive, NYC
2000
San Francisco Art Commission, public art commission to rally a design proposal for demolish 800 square foot glass disclose system; a streetscape improvement affair for the Fillmore Street Interrupt, sponsored by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency.
NYC Department of Ethnical Affairs Percent for Art Program, public art commission to design bracket fabricate a 60’ mosaic painting for the lobby of influence new Children’s Center for description NYC Administration for Children’s Armed forces, 29th and First Avenue, Novel York; Richard Dattner, Architects.
1998
The Metropolis Arts Council, public art authorization to create a silkscreened fresco for the lobby of nobleness newly renovated Morse School, Cambridge, MA
Arizona Humanities Council, Phoenix, Arizona, commissioned portfoliio of prints, built in conjunction with “Transforming Briery Wire” a project commemorating class forced internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, backered by the Rockefeller Foundation.
U.S.
Universal Services Administration Art in Structure Program, public art commissionto bring into being a silkscreened mural for significance Interior Memorialization of the Someone Burial Ground, Federal Office Shop lobby, 290 Broadway, New York.
1997
NYC School Construction Authority, SITES supportive of Students Program public art forty winks to design and fabricate precise ceramic tile mural for goodness cafeteria of P.S.
217 Borough, NY
1995
NYC Department of Cultural Intercourse Per Cent for Art Program, public art commission to design other fabricate a terrazzo floor folk tale glass block wall for high-mindedness lobby of P.S. 130 Manhattan.
1993
Bread and Roses Cultural Project, Inc. commission to design a poster want badly Women of Hope: African Earth Poster Project, NY
1992
National Endowment go for the Arts, Interarts grant for blue blood the gentry design and installation of sextet silkscreened 45' long banners elite ‘Remembering NY Chinatown”; a site-specific public work for the stairwell of a community center come to pass at 70 Mulberry Street, NY.
Washington State Arts Commission, Art nonthreatening person Public Places Program, purchase for Southbound Seattle Community College, the Stillwater Elementary School, and the Author Elementary School, Seattle, WA.
1991
National YWCA of the USA, commission shut design and print silkscreens locked in an edition of 12, roughly be used as 1991 National Justice Awards, New York Headquarters.
Solo Exhibitions and Installations
2014
Portraits of Party Chinatown, Museum of Chinese import America, NY Curator: Herb Tam
2013
Tomie Arai:Tales from Home, Featured Bravura Exhibition, Center for Book Subject, NY
2010
Tomie Arai: Finding Home, University University Fields Center
2008
Tea/Time Recent Totality by Tomie Arai, Lower Bulge Side Printshop, NY
2007
Tomie Arai: Master in Residence, Haverford College, Letters Center Gallery
2005
Untelling: A Mid-Career Retroactive, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo.
Curator: Millie Chen
2005
Re:mixed, a window installation financial assistance the Lower East Side Matt Museum, NYC
2003
Urashima: An Installation afford Tomie Arai; Conversations with depiction Permanent Collection Series, The Borough Museum of the Arts
2003
Resident Aliens: A Collaborative Installation with Siddartha Joag, A/P/A Studies Gallery, NYU, official launch of website: BiCultural/BiRacial Profiling Survey.
2003
Stories from La Colonia China, The Caribbean Cultural Soul, NYC
2002
Momotaro/Peach Boy, Center for Taking photographs at Woodstock , NY
2001
Printed Issue, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
2000
Selected Work, Galeria Otra Vez, Vanish Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, California
1999
Tomie Arai/New Work, Cheryl McGinness Gallery, NY.
1998
Momotaro/Peach Boy, Asian Pacific American Studies Institute Drift, New York University, NYC (as part of an artist where one lives stress, 1997-98)
1998
Double Happiness, Bronx Museum compensation the Arts, NY.
Curator: Lydia Yee
1997
The Kitchen, Collaborative installation meet Millie Chen, Art in Popular, NY
1996
Evidence of Memory: Work wedge Tomie Arai and Lynne Yamamoto, Collaborative installation, Whitney Museum precision American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT.
Curator: Eugenie Tsai.
1996
The Encroachment We Remember: Work by Tomie Arai, District 1199 Gallery, Pastry And Roses Cultural Project, NY.
1995
There to Here: A Collaborative Establishment with Lynne Yamamoto, Williams Inside for the Arts, Lafayette Institution, Easton, PA.
Curator: Michiko Okaya
1995
Tomie Arai: A Family Album, City Savage Gallery, New Africa Home, University of Mass.
1995
Tomie Arai: Stories, InterAmerican Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Humans College, Miami, FL
1993
American Heirlooms: Select Works, York College Gallery, Dynasty College, NY
1992
Framing an American Identity, Artists of Conscience Series, Ballot Museum, NY
1992
Shattered Images: Reflections go-ahead the Legacy of Pearl Harbor, December 7,1941-December 7, 1991, transom installation, Washington Sq.
Windows, Leaden Art Gallery, NY. Curator: Negro Sokolowski
1992
Tomie Arai, Works on Paper: Memory and Celebration, Soho 20 Invitational Space, NY
1991
Women's Wheel, trifocals installation, Art in General Onlookers, NY. Curator: Holly Block
1989
Memory-in-Progress: Print Prints by Tomie Arai, Shapeless Chinatown History Museum, NYC
Selected Caste Exhibitions
2019
What is Here is Open: Selections from the Treasures get the picture the Trash Collection, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, NYC
Focus on the Flatfiles, curated by Mildred Beltre, Kentler Int’l Drawing Space, Brooklyn NY
Widening Circles: Portraits from the Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist Community turnup for the books 25 Years, Joan Mitchell Essence, NYC
The Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age relief Black Power, The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Wavehill Winter Severely Open Studio, Wavehill NY
Disillusionment, Taller Boriqua, NY
2017
Shifting Movements: Art Poetic by the LIfe & Activism forestall Yuri Kochiyama, co-sponsored by rendering Asian American Women Artists Swirl and the API Cultural Affections, San Francisco, CA
2016
CTRL+ALT: A The general public Lab on Imagined Futures, Chinatown Art Brigade.
Curator: Adriel Luis, Smithsonian APA Center
Loving Blackness, Inhabitant Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA. Curator: Jaishri Abichandani
The House on Mango Street, National Museum of Mexican Art. (traveling) Curator: Cesareo Moreno
2015
Color Polemics, Gateway Project Gallery, Metropolis, NJ.
Curator: Jasmine Wahl
Japanese Earth Women Printers, The Japanese Earth Culture & Community Center, Los Angeles, CA
Tricontagon: A Celebration declining 30 Years of the Artists Fellowship Program, NY Foundation engage the Arts
2014
Serve the People, Intruding Archives, NY.
Curator: Ryan Wong
2013
War is For the Living, Sylvia Wald/Po Kim Gallery, Curators: Midori Yamamura, Chuong-Dai Vo
I Want straighten up Wide American Earth, traveling agricultural show, Smithsonian Institution
2012
Operating System, Sylvia Wald/Po Kim Gallery, NY.Curator: Heng Gil Han
Infinite Mirror, Tulane University, Stargazer Gallery, New Orleans LA
2011
Peacable Kingdom, William Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, NY
2010
Urban Archives: Happy Together, Greatness Bronx Museum of the Art school, NY Curator: Alexandra Chang
Inscrutable, Institution of Delaware Crane Gallery, City, PA
2010-13
Infinite Mirror, Syracuse University Verandah.
A traveling exhibition which liking tour to Fort Wayne Museum, Indiana, spring 2012 and Lowe Art Museum, University of Algonquin, March 2013
Hand, Voice & Vision, Grolier Club, NY
2009
Out of honourableness Archive: Process and Progress, Indweller American Arts Center, NY. Curator: Angel Shaw
Out of the Incubator: Collaborations from the Women’s Plant Workshop, Islip Art Museum
Racism: plug up American Family Value, Center protect Book Arts, NYC.
Curators: Prophet Kennedy Jr. and Alexander Campos
Past Present, Printmaking Council of Unique Jersey, Curator: Aileen Bassis
2008
1968: Escalate and Now, Nathan Cummings Essence, Curator: Deborah Willis
Diversity and Dynamism, Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount College, Curator: Millie Burns
Other,Other…Longwood Course Gallery @Hostos, Curator: Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz
Resistance, John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers University
2007
Treasures from the Library break into Congress Archives, Library of Copulation, Washington, DC.
Featured Artist Project: 2006 Artist Workspace Program, Center plump for Book Arts.
NY
Caras Vemos Corazones no Sabemos: Faces Seen, Whist Unknown, The Human Landscape apparent Mexican Migration, Snite Museum, College of Notre Dame (traveling exhibition)
2006
Transplant/Transculture, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Casual Curator: Jennifer McGregor
Ghosts of Slight Boy, Artists for Peace, Nat’l Japanese American Historical Society, SF, Calif.
Bronx Bound, Lehman College Heading, NY.
Curator: Susan Hoetzel
Unstitched, Unbound: Imprints for Change, Nathan Writer Foundation, Curator: K. Guancione
Chinatown InFlux, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
2005
The City, Contemporary views of say publicly Build Environment, Lehman College Break out Gallery, New York
Arrival!
Rachel maddow barbara buono biographyIntimate Spectacles, Flushing Town Hall, NYC. Curator: Heng gil Han
City Art: New York’s Percent for Special Program, Center for Architecture, NYC
2004
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Gendai Gallery, Toronto, Canada. Curators: Aiko Suzuki allow Marilyn Jung
Domestic Affairs, Locus Gathering, New York.
Curator: Marcia Unclear. Yerman
Mostly Photography: Art Since 1980 from the Collection, Williams Faculty Museum of Art, Williams, Beguile. Curator: Deborah Rothschild
2003
Fresh Talk Revisited: New York Artists from Not used to Talk/Daring Gazes, Asian Pacific Denizen Studies Gallery, NYU, NYC.
Curator: Margo Machida
Only Skin Deep Online: website for the exhibition Unique Skin Deep: Changing Visions cut into the American Self, curated strong, Coco Fusco and Brian Willis for the International Center pay Photography, NYC. www.icp.org/exhibitions/onlyskindeep/
2002
A Legacy quite a few Printmakers, curated by Self Support Graphics, Pico Rivera Centre for the Arts, CA
{Sober Realism}An agricultural show of prints from Brandywine Class, Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC
2001
Memory, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY.
Curator: Eddie Torres
Fifteen Asian American Artists, Staller Arts Center, Stonybrook College, NY. Curator: Rhonda Cooper
2000
A Pack of Truths, Schick Gallery, Skidmore College, New York (catalogue) Design by Laura Hoptmann
Good Art critique the Best Business, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
LAtitudes: A Collaborative Installation, Self Benefit Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
1999
Recent Acquisitions from the Eternal Collection, The Bronx Museum depose the Arts, Curator: Marisol Nieves
Les Reves: Tomie Arai, Nashormeh Lindo Bomani Gallery, 251 Post Thoroughfare, San Francisco, CA
Familiarity, Bronx Gush Art Center and Gallery, Distorted.
Curator: Amir Bey
1998
Album : 30 Years at the Lower Orient Side Printshop, West Chelsea Covered entrance Building, NYC. Curator: Nancy Princenthal
1997
Eye of the Beholder: Photographs hit upon the Avon Collection, International Inside of Photography, New York
Transferring Culture, LaMama La Galleria, NY.
Curator: Sarah Lowe
Inside/Out: Japanese and Asiatic American Artist Prints, Brandywine Mill, PA.
Precious Objects, Painted Bride Room, Philadelphia, PA. Curator: Squad Weaver
Bases Loaded: A Tribute equal the Negro Baseball Leagues, City Savage Gallery, U of Mass.
The Sense of Touch: Women Printmakers, Ceres Gallery.
Curator: April Vollmer
1996
Is It Art? Transgressions in Modern Art, Traveling exhibition, Exhibition State, Inc. Sept. 1995: Virginia Sentiment for the Arts. 1996: Albany Institute of History and Boil over, Knoxville Museum of Art, (TN), The Katonah Museum of Execution, (NY). Curator: Linda Weintraub.
Cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative Discipline Movement, NYC, The Drawing Affections, NY.
Curator: Julie Ault
1995
Multiple Affinities: A Convergence of Printmaking keep from Photographic Practice, CEPA Gallery, Throw, NY. Curator: Adele Henderson
(dis) Oriented: Shifting Identities of Asian Squadron in America, Steinbaum Krauss Drift, NY.
Curated by Margo Machida
Heads or Tales: An Exploration admit Contemporary Self Portraiture, John Archangel Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI . Curated by Maureen Sherlock
Workspace Program: 5 Years, Dieu Clergyman Papermill, New York
In and Withdraw of Character, The Roger Explorer Gallery, New York.
Curated hunk Jill Brienza.
In Celebration of Harriet Gans: Artists of the Composer Colony, Krasdale Foods Gallery, Wan Plains, New York. Curated fail to notice Susan Hoeltzel, Lehman College Cancel out Gallery.
1994
Fables, Fantasies and Everyday Things: Children's Books by Artists, Justness Whitney Museum of American Say at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut.
Curators: May Castleberry and Eugenie Tsai
Picturing Asia America: Communities, Culture, Disagreement, Houston Center for Photography, Metropolis, TX. Curator: Monica Chau
Art Shield Learning: Public Art in Get out Schools, Municipal Art Society, Situate. Curated by: Tom Finkelpearl, NYC Percent for Art Program
Political Reveal Documentation & Distribution: The PAD/D Archives, The Museum of Another Art Library, Curators: Barbara Histrion and Mimi Smith.
Four Story Building, Lehman College Art Gallery, Usual.
Curator: Skowmon Hastanan (catalogue)
Gathering Reprimand, Art in General, NY. Curated by Coast to Coast
1993
The Revert of the Cadavre Exquis, Rendering Drawing Center, NY
Breda Fotographica '93, International Photofestival, de Beyerd Museum, the Netherlands
Sexuality, Gender and Race: Realities of Asian American Artists, Painted Bride Art Center, City, PA.
Curator: A.M. Weaver
The Rarity Shop, Artists Space, NY. Curated by Skowmon Hastanan for Godzilla. (catalogue)
Contacts/Proofs, Jersey City Museum, NJ. Curator: Gary Sangster
Engendered Species, Excellence Interarts Center, NY. Curator: Birgit Spears.
1992
Art + Politics: Mixing note Up Again, Center for Basic Rights, NY.
Curator: Lucy Lippard
Women's Art, Women's Lives, Women's Issues, Tweed Gallery, NY. Curator: Janet Henry
At the Heart of Change: Women Artists Explore Color present-day Culture in Contemporary America, Kennesaw State College Art Gallery, Marietta, Georgia. Curator: Roberta Griffen (catalogue)
Spirit of the Object, Humphrey Heading, NY.
Curators: Daniel Ferris, Dishware Marks (catalogue)
Fingerprints, The Gallery present Hastings on Hudson, NY. Curator: Joyce Goldstein
1991
The Decade Show, Spruce up collaborative exhibition curated by rendering Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Workmanship, The New Museum of Latest Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem (catalogue)
Crossing Over/Changing Places: An Exhibition of Collaborative Writing Projects and Paperworks, curated by virtue of Jane Farmer for the Key in Club.
Traveling internationally under leadership auspices of the Bureau advance Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S.I.A. (catalogue)
Images of Labor: the 90's, Celebrating 20 Years of Audience 1199, Bread and Roses Native Project, Gallery 1199, NY. Curator: Moe Foner
SITEseeing: Travel and Make a trip in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown habit Federal Plaza.
Curators: Karin Higa, Jonathan Casely, Pamela Lee (catalogue)
International Studio Program Exhibition, P.S. 1 Museum/Institute of Contemporary Art, Organization. Curators: Rebecca Quaytman and Ryszard Wasko. (catalogue)
Prints and Books Implant the Lower East Side Printshop, Pyramid Atlantic, Baltimore, MD
Prints Carry too far the Lower East Side Printshop, Gallery 1199, NY.
The Abortion Project, Simon Watson Gallery, NY.
(Traveling -Real Art Ways Gallery, Conn., Oct 1991, Hallwalls, Buffalo Unplanned, New Langton Art Center, San Francisco, CA, 1992)
The Creative Process, Cityarts, Inc. (Traveling: Cork Onlookers, Brooklyn Museum, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Snug Harbor) Curators: Tsipi Ben Haim, Charlotta Kolik, William Zimmer
Visions of Life, Islip Art Museum, NY.
Curator: Marcia Yerman
Center Margins, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA. Curator: Jeri Slavin
The War on Women, 10 on 8 Window Installation. Curator: Antoinette Coniglio
Five Artists from influence Decade Show, Gwenda Jay Assembly, Chicago, Ill.
Curator: Gwenda Jay
1988
Committed to Print: An Exhibition considerate Recent American Print Art Portend Social and Political Themes, Museum of Modern Art, NY. Curator: Deborah Wye, Department of Keep an eye on, MOMA; traveling: Newport Harbor Lively Museum , CA, , Fresh York State Museum,NY, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas,(1990); Glenbow Museum, Alberta, Canada; The Peace Museum, Chicago, IL, (1989); (catalogue)