Naomi Tsukamoto

2000　M.Ed in Creative Arts, Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2002　Artist-in -Residence, Shigaraki Institute of Ceramic Studies
2004　MFA.University of Colorado at Boulder
2005　Artist-in-Residence, City University of New York, Hunter College

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010　Nroom artspace,Tokyo
2009　i→ｐ、Kanagawa
2007　Furlong Gallery,University of Wistonsin at Stout
2005　Hunter College, NYC
2004　University of Colorado Art Museum
　　　 Burren Castle Ireland
2003　Holland Area Arts Council

Group Exhibitions
Suan Pakkad Palace&Museum（Bangkok,Thailand),Shigaraki Museum of Contemporary Ceramics, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art(Michigan), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art(Colorado), Santa Fe Clay(New Mexico),etc.

The eyes of a cat and a suitcase
Rain boots
An umbrella

What triggers you to those familiar places?

I am interested in the memories of places, physical memories that are no longer tangible, and the remnants that are the markers and keepsakes of our memories I am interested in the discrepancy that happens between what we remember and how it really was.  I am interested in the sizes of tangible objects in our memories and the activity of reconstruction that happens in the process of retelling our stories from the past.  I like what happens in the process of retelling: how time no longer exists, how we can own our past again.

In silhouettes, a presence and an absence coexist.The process of casting resembles collecting the shadows of our ever changing memories.