“Craig Nagasawa: J-Town Express” at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery brings painting, drawing, and animation together to explore family history, migration, and cultural erasure.
Join us on Zoom 6-7pm, Tuesday, July 15th for a screening, open studio, and story hour featuring fragments from “J-Town,” an animated immigration epic.
I will be showing a large-scale drawing and painting installation – Opening Reception on February 3rd!
Arts writer Renny Pritikin describes my work in the context of this ambitious exhibition.
I will be showing a new drawing in a group show in Berkeley.
Exhibition explores the influence of Japanese graphic arts, manga, and anime on contemporary cultural production outside of Japan.
“Sound of Stone” (2023), a recent charcoal drawing of mine, is featured in Kala Art Institute’s annual exhibition and benefit auction: March 30 to May 13, 2023.
My work is included in a new catalog documenting the first five years of exhibitions at Roll Up Project, Oakland.
Announcing “Japan Town,” a solo exhibition at Roll Up Project in Oakland, April 23 – June 8, 2022.
Radio interview and article on KUER-FM, Salt Lake City, about my work and the destruction of Japantown, the neighborhood where I grew up.