List of Fellows in 2024

List of Fellows in 2024
State/Region Name Current Position Area of Research Project Title
Brazil Ideguchi Claudia Midori Researcher, Universidade de São Paulo Japanese Cinema Universal Experience: Roots of Hirokazu Kore-eda's Cinema
China Shen Ruijun Independent Curator and Artist Contemporary Art An approach to free mind: Zen, Zen garden and Contemporary Art
Germany Prohm Alan John Media Concept, TheGreenEyl Digital applications for the mediation of art and culture Architectural Body Tracking & Diagramming (ABTD) - Research and Prototyping
Indonesia Sunjoto Margareth Lecturer, Universitas Ciputra Surabaya Light & Lighting teamLab: Embodying the Japanese Artistic and Architectural Spatial Lighting Sensibilities in a Digital Age
Italy Comis Guido Direttore di Servizio, Ente Regionale per il Patrimonio Culturale Contemporary Art Programme Contemporary Photography in Japan
Latvia Sakse Liga Lecturer, New Media Art and Design, RTU Liepaja Academy Art Research Laboratory (MPArtLab) Recent Perspectives in Japanese Floral Photography
Mexico Marrero Tejeda Edisabel PhD Candidate, National Autonomous University of Mexico - UNAM Art History "ジェンダー論争: feminist revisionism and the methodologies of Japanese Art History at the turn of the century"
Myanmar Aung Myat Htay Founder, Curator, School of Contemporary Art Project Myanmar(SoCA) Contemporary Art Shifting Eras:Research on Japanese Postmodern to Contemporary Art (1970s -1990s)
Poland Strozek Przemyslaw Lukasz Associate Professor, Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences Modern and Postwar Art Japanese Arts and Graphic Design in the Eastern Bloc, 1950s-1960s
Singapore Teh David Associate Professor, National University of Singapore Art History and Theory Contemporaneity and the Curatorial Function in Japan
U.A.E Hetrick Jason Matthew Assistant Professor, College of Fine Arts & Design, University of Sharjah Modern and Contemporary Art Forms of Ecological Subjectivation in Japanese Contemporary Art
U.S.A Allen Laura Curator Emiritus, Japanese Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Japanese Art Study of ukiyo-e sources for recent paintings by Murakami Takashi (b. 1962)
U.S.A Coburn Tyler Stewart Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University Visual Arts Afterlives of Nanban Art
U.S.A Sadjadpour Shirin Mikiko PhD Candidate, University of Chicago History, Art History On the Marriage of Spirit and Soul: The Woodblock Print and Making Modernism in Germany and Japan, 1890-1930
U.S.A Soenksen Virginia Meredith Director, Madison Art Collection and Lisanby Museum Japanese Textiles Fashioning the Future: Innovation in Japanese Textiles
U.S.A Tagore Eimi PhD Candidate, New York University Department of East Asian Studies Contemporary Art from the Japanese Periphery: Testimony, Autofiction, and Archive
U.S.A Wu Chinghsin Associate Teaching Professor, Rutgers University, Camden Japanese Art Visualizing “The South”: Images of Taiwan in Modern Japanese Art

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