Kimihiko Nakamura
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ADDRESS
Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University
Voßstraße 2, Building 4120
69115 Heidelberg
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Kimihiko Nakamura is a doctoral student at the Institute of East Asian Art History, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He researches postwar Japanese art and Asian diasporic / Asian American art. His particular interests lie in abstract art and avant-garde calligraphy in Japan. His doctoral dissertation explores a transpacific artistic exchange between Japan and the US in the postwar period, focusing on three Japanese abstract artists: Kawabata Minoru, Okada Kenzō, and Shinoda Tōkō, and their association with the Abstract Expressionist circles of New York.
EDUCATION
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December 2021 – Present. PhD Student at the Institute of East Asian Art History, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
- Working title of thesis: ‘Japanese Émigré Artists in Postwar New York: Kawabata Minoru, Okada Kenzō, Shinoda Tōkō, and the Multiple Trajectories of Abstract Art’. Supervised by: Professor Melanie Trede (Heidelberg) and Dr Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures).
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September 2019 – December 2020. MLitt Art History (with Distinction), University of St Andrews, UK
- Dissertation entitled: ‘“Oriental” Abstraction? Okada Kenzō and the Postwar Globalisation of the Art World’. Supervised by: Dr Natalie Adamson. Marked: 18.0/20.0.
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April 2014 – March 2019. BA Philosophy (Aesthetics), Keio University, Japan
- Dissertation entitled: ‘Socially Engaged Art Practices in Japan: A History of Participation and Spectatorship in a Comparative Perspective, 1964–2011’. Supervised by: Dr Yukiko Kato (Saitama University) and Professor Koichi Toyama (Keio).
- Museum Curator’s Certificate in Japan.
EMPLOYMENT
- October 2022 – Present. Research Assistant for the subproject B14 ‘Interactive Materialities: Interrelationships between the Written / Painted and the Printed in Japan of the Long 17th Century’ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 ‘Material Text Cultures’, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
- June 2022 – July 2022. Teaching Assistant, Institute of East Asian Art History, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- Kimihiko Nakamura, ‘Shinoda Tōkō: Ink, Abstraction, and Radical Individualism’, Woman’s Art Journal 43, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2022): 21–30.
PRESENTATIONS
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Conference Papers
- ‘From Western-Style Painters in Japan to Diasporic Japanese Painters in the United States: The Question of Cultural Identity in the Art of Okada Kenzō and Kawabata Minoru’, Global New Voices 2022: Art, Identify and the Body (online; graduate conference organised by the Doctoral and Early Career Research Network for the Association for Art History), 17 November 2022.
- ‘Painting Two Empires: Okada Kenzō and Kawabata Minoru under the Empire of Japan and Pax Americana’, The 5th EU-Japan Young Scholars Workshop / 2022 International New Generation Workshop “Japanese Transnationalism and Empire”, Centre Européen d'Etudes Japonaises d'Alsace, 4–6 November 2022.
- ‘Floating in the World: Historicising Shinoda Tōkō’s Radical Individualism in Twentieth-Century Japan’, panel ‘Culture Materialized: Reconceptualizing Materiality in Contemporary Japanese Art’ (co-panelled with Dr Stephanie Su, Dr Eriko Tomizawa-Kay, and Dr Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer), British Association for Japanese Studies Annual Conference 2022, University of Manchester, 7–9 September 2022.
- ‘International Aspiration and Nationalist Struggle in Postwar Japanese Art, with a Focus on Okada Kenzō and Kawabata Minoru’, 10th Forum for East Asian Art History in German-speaking Countries, University of Zurich, 17–18 June 2022.
- ‘Utilising National Borders: Okada Kenzō, Kawabata Minoru, and the “Return to Japan” in New York’, 1st Swiss Asia Society Japan Conference “Borders, Thresholds, Barriers in Japan”, University of Geneva, 6–7 June 2022.
- ‘Kenzo Okada and the Postwar Globalisation of the Art World’, Emerging Perspectives in Art History and Visual Culture | UG and PG Masters Conference (graduate conference organised by the Association for Art History), University of Edinburgh, 19 March 2020 (conference cancelled due to COVID-19).
Department Talks / Workshops
- ‘Japanese Émigré Artists in Postwar New York: Kawabata Minoru, Okada Kenzō, and Shinoda Tōkō’, British Association for Japanese Studies/Japan Foundation Postgraduate Workshop 2022, University of East Anglia, 25 February 2022.
- ‘Shinoda Tōkō: Ink, Abstraction, and Radical Individualism’, DoktorandInnen-Kolloquium: Japanische Kunst, Universität Heidelberg (online), 2 November 2021.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Summer semester 2022. Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, teaching assistant (simultaneous interpreter) for lecture ‘Modern Japanese Painters’ and seminar ‘Invisible Regions of Japanese Art’ for Ryo Furuta (Ishibashi Foundation Visiting Professor from Tokyo University of the Arts).
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Internship
- April 2021 – March 2022. Curatorial and Collections Intern, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
- November 2018 – March 2019. “Cultural Narrative of a City” Project Intern, Keio University Art Center, Tokyo
- April 2018 – March 2019. Education and Public Programmes Intern, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Translations and Interpretations
- 27 June 2022. Simultaneous interpretation (Japanese to English) for Akiko Furuta’s special lecture ‘Watanabe Seitei: The Singularity and Universality of His Paintings’, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
- 21 June 2022. Simultaneous interpretation (Japanese to English) for Ryo Furuta’s special lecture ‘Asia is One? Okakura Tenshin and His Idea of the Art’, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
- May 2021 – August 2021. Translation (Japanese to English) of documents on Pierre Soulages for Natalie Adamson, School of Art History, University of St Andrews.
FELLOWSHIPS
- 2022 – 2023. Ishibashi Foundation Digital Futures Scholar: Archives of Postwar Japanese Art in Europe, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures.
- 2022 – 2023. PoNJA Wikipedia Initiative – Round 2 (PWI2) Fellowship, Asia Art Archive in America (AAA-A) and PoNJA-GenKon.
PRIZES
- December 2020. Deans’ List, University of St Andrews, UK. Awarded to students who average 16.5 or over in their degree.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA)
- Japan Art History Forum (JAHF)
- Post-1945 Japanese Art Discussion Group / Gendai Bijutsu Kondankai (PoNJA-GenKon)
