List of Fellows in 2025

List of Fellows in 2025
State/Region Name Current Position Area of Research Project Title
Belgium Abreu Stable Kicsy PHD applicant, National School of Visual Arts of LaCambre / ULB_Faculty of Architecture, La Cambre Horta Architecture Spatial storytelling in Everyday Spaces – A Comparative Study of Japanese and Cuban Architecture to Develop a New Spatial Language in Artistic Installations
Belgium Pirotte Philippe Professor, Staedelschule - Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt, Germany Art History From Spectres of Bandung to Anti-Anpo
Brazil Debattisti Izabela Brettas Volunteer Professor, University of Brasilia Contemporary Art Akira Yamaguchi’s Intersection of Past and Present
Brazil Yasuda Kamila Tizumi Researcher, State University of Paraná - Brazil Art History Japan-Brazil Encounters: Informal Abstraction and the Seibi Group
China Wang Cui Assistant Professor, SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF ART & DESIGN Art Conservation and Restoration A Study on Cultural Exchange in Japanese Art through Preservation and Restoration
China Xiang Wei Postdoctoral Researcher, Peking University Traditional Japanese Art Research on Japanese Senki Emaki
Egypt Ahmed El Bayoumi Rania Fouad Assistant professor, Faculty of Fine Arts-Helwan University Japanese Painting, Contemporary Art Expanding the traditional, technique-driven art form of Japanese painting into the realm of contemporary art .
France Abt Manon PhD candidate, University College London (UCL) Contemporary Art The Preservation of Japanese Early Computer-Based Art (1960-1991): Conservation Strategies and Institutional Narratives
Germany Kuhlmann-Hodick Petra Senior Curator, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Japanese Prints Japan-Paris-Dresden. Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige and the international Graphic Arts around 1900 in the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett
Germany Melnikova Daria Research Associate, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Contemporary Art Cella in the Space Age: Abstraction and Avant-Garde Nihonga
Russia Tyagunova Elena Olegovna Head of the Scientific Department, Kasugai Japanese Art Gallery Traditional Japanese Art, Japanese Prints The phenomenon of Ako-roshi as an image in Japanese visual arts
U.A.E Arfara Aikaterini Tenure-track Assistant Professor, New York University Abu Dhabi Modern Japanese Art Crosscurrents of Empire: Okakura Kakuzo and the Evolutionary Aesthetics of Pan-Asianism
U.S.A Choi Suhyun PhD Candidate, Columbia University Postwar Art Transnational Socialism, Decolonial Worldmaking, and the Development of Realist Painting in Japan and North Korea, 1945-1980
U.S.A Jesty Justin C Associate Professor, University of Washington Contemporary Art Post-Growth Avant-Garde: Japan’s Arts of the Future
U.S.A Jin Jinyoung Anna Director of Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University Modern Japanese Art Kitagawa Tamiji and the Transnational Legacy of Mexican Muralism in East Asia
U.S.A Little David Eugene Curator and Executive Museum Consultant Photography Seven Views of Okinawa: 1960 to Today
U.S.A Tan Yi-Ern Samuel PhD Student, Harvard University Japanese Textiles Confused and Inevitable Form: Miyake Design Studio and the Case of Pleats Please 1995

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