List of Fellows in 2026
| State/Region | Name | Current Position | Area of Research | Project Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | Barbaro | Susana Paula | Independent Researcher and Lecturer / Associate Professor - University of Buenos Aires | Art and Design Curating | Contemporary Japanese Poster: Onsite Study of Ikko Tanaka's legacy (1980s-1990s) |
| Austria | Mio | Wakita | Curator and Head of the Asian Collection - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna | Japanese Art History (Meiji era) | Japanese Arts at the Vienna World's Fair:A Transcultural Design History through the Lens of Ceramic Works from the Collection of the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna |
| Brazil | Abel Martins da Silva | Thiago | Director, Researcher, Teacher - Experimental Butoh Laboratory (Nucleo Experimental de Buto) | Performing Arts / Communication and Semiotics | A Queer Iconography of Butoh |
| Croatia | Vuger | Dario | Assistant Professor - University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences | Philosophy, Aethetics, Visual Studies | Dreamscapes as Common-grounds - Re-thinking the Naive Art of Japan |
| France | Giard | Agnes, Pascale, Jeanne | Associate Researcher - Sophiapol laboratory | Anthropology | Dream Body: Becoming doll in Japan |
| France | Zeitoun | Olivier Charles Joseph | Associate Curator - Centre Pompidou | Modern and Contemporary Design - XXth/XXIst centuries | Behind the Scenes: The Unseen Contributions of Japanese Women Designers in the 1980s |
| Germany | Elena | Radoi | Doctoral Candidate - Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar | Media Theory | Japanese Fresco Wall Paintings: A Play with the Faraway |
| Hungary | Nema | Julia | Artist, Researcher and Artistic Director - Spavia Bt. | ceramic art and design, practice and theory | Contemporary Ceramic Art and Culture in Mino |
| India | Ramlingaiah | Shruti | Independent Curator & Researcher | Art History and Museology | Fiction, Myth-Making, and Expanded Media in Japan.India Artistic Practices (1990s.Present) |
| Indonesia | Robby | Raihan | Program Coordinator - Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA) Contemporary Art Studies | Research, program designer, event-making, writer and editor. | Outside Official Exhibitions:Art Collectives Beyond State Patrnoage in Japan1920s-1970s |
| Iran | Abdolhosseini Roozbahani | Narges | Collaborating Architect / Exhibition Contributor - Persian Seismic retrofitting institute | Vernacular Architecture, Cross-Cultural Curation, Architectural Exhibition Design | Spatial Intervals and Vernacular Continuities: Reinterpreting MA (間) in Japanese and Iranian Architectural Practice |
| U.S.A | Depairon | Philippe | PhD Student - Columbia University | Japanese Art History (Early Modern to Modern) | Fuzoku: The Modern Afterlives of Genre Painting, ca. 1880 . 1926 |
| U.S.A | Jones | Meghen | Professor of Art History - Alfred University | Modern Japanese Art, Design, and Ceramics History | The Art of Contemporary Chanoyu Ceramics |
| U.S.A | Traganou | Georgia (Jilly) | Professor of Architecture and Urbanism - Parsons School of Design, The New School | Architecture, Urbanism, Design Studies | Rehearsing Utopia: Spatial and Material Prefiguration from Atarashiki Mura and Tenri to Contemporary Art Practice in Japan |
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