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Banta, archival inkjet print mounted on aluminum board 20x60 in.

Osamu James Nakagawa was born in New York City; raised in Tokyo, Japan and returned to Houston, Texas at the age of 15. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of St. Thomas Houston in 1986 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Houston in 1993. Currently, Nakagawa is an associate professor and the head of photography department at Indiana University. Nakagawa's work is shown internationally, the exhibitions include a solo exhibition, Ma-between the past, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas; Kai: Osamu James Nakagawa, SEPIA International Inc., New York, NY, Mado, Houston Center for Photography. The selected group shows includes Traces and Omens, 2005 Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, Netherlands, Contemporary American Photography, 7 International Fototage 2005, Mannheim Germany; Common Ground, Corcoran Museum of Fine Arts, Washington D.C.; Cuenca, Ecuador Bienal '98: Borderline Figuration; Medialogue-Photography in Contemporary Japanese Art '98, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Field of Vision: Five Gulf Coast Photographers, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. His work has been published and reviewed in Art News, New York Times, New Yorker Magazine, Time Magazine; Village Voice, Aperture: Metamorphoses, Edition Stemmle: Waterproof, Enfoco: Nueva Luz, and others. Nakagawa received grants and fellowship from the Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts; Indiana Arts Commission; The Light Work, Syracuse, NY; The Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Co.; Houston Center for Photography; the American Photography Institute, New York City; Cultural Arts of Houston/Harris County. His work is in the permanent collections of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago Columbia College and others.

Osamu James Nakagawa was born in New York City; raised in Tokyo, Japan and returned to Houston, ...