Nishiki Sugawara-Beda
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Nishiki Sugawara-Beda is a Japanese-American visual artist specializing in painting and installation. She actively exhibits her work in solo and group exhibitions and offers lectures nationally and internationally to promote cultural diversity and exchange. She draws upon her Japanese heritage to explore themes related to culture, language, and spirituality rooted in Zen Buddhism. Connecting across space and time, she experiments in ancient Japanese materials and techniques including Sumi ink, Kakejiku landscapes, and rice paper, to merge them with abstract and expressive forms familiar to the modern Western aesthetic.
Her works are in private and public collections including the Dallas Museum of Art (TX) and the Dennos Museum (MI). Exhibition venues include the Spartanburg Art Museum (SC), Morris Graves Museum of Art (CA), Dennos Museum (MI), Amos Eno Gallery (NY), Hollis Taggart (NY) and Cris Worley Fine Arts (TX). Publications include New American Paintings, AEQAI, Athenaeum Review, London Post, Art Spiel and WhiteHot. Awards including a Seed Grant, Diversity Fellowship, International Enhancement Grant, Idaho Arts Fellowship, Sam Taylor Fellowship, Tusen Takk Foundation Residency, and the Dallas Museum of Art’s Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Fund have supported her artistic research. She is represented by Cris Worley Fine Art in Dallas, TX.
In addition to national conferences, including the College Art Association, Sugawara-Beda also gives keynote speeches and workshops to cultural organizations including Pilipino American Unity for Progress, Inc., OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates, and Business Council for the Arts, Dallas.
See You There, a full-color art book surveying her work from 2012 to 2020, is being published by Execute Magazine in 2021.
Education
B.A., Portland State University
M.F.A., Indiana University
Recent Work
Recent Bibliography
Maxwell Rabb. “5 Standout Shows to See at Small Galleries This March.” Artsy, March 15, 2024. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-5-standout-small-galleries-march
Amara Asrawi. “SMU professor paints with purpose, honors Japanese American roots.” The Daily Campus, May 14, 2023. http://smudailycampus.com/ae/smu-professor-paints-with-purpose-honors-japanese-american-roots
Steve Carter. “In Glorious Black and White.” Patron Magazine, October-November, 2022. https://issuu.com/patronmagazine/docs/2022_patron_oct_nov_issue/76
Emily Hopcian. “A Making Place.” Traverse Magazine, September, 2022. https://mynorth.com/2022/09/tusen-takk-in-leelanau-county-gives-artists-a-place-to-create/
Laura Horne. “Absence and Presence.” Tussle Magazine, April 17, 2022.
Jonathan Goodman. “Somewhere Around there.” Tussle Magazine, March 30, 2022.
Simonetta Moro. “Nishiki Sugawara-Beda: Somewhere Around There, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.” March 19, 2022.
Maggie Pavao. “Not knowing is most intimate.” Art Spiel, March 10, 2022.
Vittoria Benzine. “This week opens "Somewhere Around There," the first NYC solo show by Dallas-based visual artist Nishiki Sugawara-Beda.” WhiteHot Magazine, February 28, 2022.
Rachel L. Hausmann Schall. “Sincere Mark-Making & Tradition with Nishiki Sugawara-Beda.” Sixty Inches From Center, September 17, 2021.
“Exploring Linear Possibilities in Nishiki Sugawara-Beda’s ‘I’ll Be There’,” ANTE Magazine, April 9, 2021.
Dr. Robert E. Gordon. “A Way of Knowing: Nishiki Sugawara-Beda.” Review of Zero at Home, by Nishiki Sugawara-Beda. Athenaeum Review, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX. Winter issue, 2021.
Gallery affiliation:
Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Course list
| Painting | |
| Drawing | |
| Observation (Foundation) | |
| Graduate Seminar |
