Linda Nishio (born 1952) is a Japanese-American artist whose conceptual pieces focus on self-image, using photographs, text and film.[1][2] She teaches at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.[3]
Raised in Los Angeles, Nishio is a third-generation Japanese-American (sansei).[4] She studied art at the University of Kansas and received her master's in fine arts from Rutgers University, where she studied with Geoffrey Hendricks.[5] Her first studio was in the Woman's Building in Los Angeles.[6]
Her first public performance, Cheap Talk (Great Wall Series), took place at the Franklin Furnace in New York in 1979. The piece combined written and spoken text, slides and film images.[5]
Selected works
editReferences
edit- ^ "Linda Nishio", Drawing the Line, Japanese American National Museum, accessed 7 June 2015.
- ^ http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/11/pst-a-to-z-drawing-the-line-at-janm.html
- ^ "Linda Nishio", Japanese American National Museum, accessed 7 June 2015.
- ^ Lois Fichner-Rathus, Foundations of Art and Design, Cengage Learning, 2011, p. 176.
- ^ a b c Jacki Apple, "A Different World: A Personal History of Franklin Furnace", 49(1), Spring 2005 (pp. 36–54), pp. 52–53.
- ^ "Drawing the line: Linda Nishio", Japanese American National Museum, YouTube, c. 00:16 mins.
- ^ Lucy Lippard, Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America, Parthenon, 1990, p. 10.
Further reading
edit- "Linda Nishio", Otis Collections Online.