Japanese-Canadian Artist Emma Nishimura to Give Public Lecture

Emma Nishimura

An Archive of Rememory (Installation)

The School of Art in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, in conjunction with Red Ridge Editions, welcomes internationally acclaimed artist Emma Nishimurato campus for a public lecture.

The School of Art lecture series will host Nishimura at 5:30 tonight, Thursday, April 25, in Hillside Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public. 

Emma Nishimura is known for creating work which addresses ideas of memory and loss that are rooted within family stories and inherited narratives. For the past decade, Nishimura's work has focused on the experience during and after the forced incarceration of her paternal grandparents and thousands of other Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War.

Nishimura works with a diversity of media including printmaking, photography, sculpture, and installation. While in residency with Red Ridge Editions, she will create a series of photogravure prints.

Red Ridge Editions invites internationally established artists and designers to work alongside students and faculty to collaborate on the creation of works on paper to foster research, experimentation, and innovation in the field of print and reproducible media. 

Emma Nishimura is in residence for one week and is creating the print edition alongside printmaking students and master printer and professor Sean Morrissey. The public is invited to view the print editioning process on Friday, April 26 at PRESStudio 1580 W. Mitchell Ave. from 3-5 p.m.

Nishimura holds a Bachelors of Art from the University of Guelph and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The recipient of the Queen Sonja Print Award 2018, Nishimura has also received grants from the Ontario Arts Council and awards from Open Studio, the International Print Center New York, Art in Print and The Print Center. She is currently an assistant professor and chair of photography, printmaking, and publications at Ontario College of Art and Design University.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including, the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario; the Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom; California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California; and the Taimiao Art Gallery, Beijing, China. Nishimura's work is in a number of public and private collections, such as the Japanese Canadian National Museum, and Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada.

Learn more about Emma Nishimura tonight at 5:30 p.m. at Hillside Auditorium. The School of Art, as well as the Joy Pratt Markham Endowment Fund, provide support for the Joy Pratt Markham Visiting Artist/Scholar Series.