Resume

Judy Nakagawa began studying sculpture at the Corcoran School of Art+Design in Washington, DC in 1998. She exhibited her work in Washington DC at the Whitewalls Gallery, at the Corcoran; the Jackson Art Centre, in Georgetown; and, had a solo show at the Errant Space Gallery in the National Press Club Building in downtown Washington.

She moved to Vancouver in 2004, where she participated in numerous shows, including two major solo shows: In Pursuit of a Quiet Art at the Japanese Canadian National Museum in Burnaby, BC; and A Steveston Beginning: Remembering My Mother at the Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site in Richmond, BC.

Since moving to Ottawa in 2018 she has shown at the Ottawa Art Gallery Annex and Art Toronto. She has had solo shows at Ottawa City Hall and at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum in Almonte ON. She is represented by and has shown her work at Studio 66, now called de Montigny Contemporary gallery.

Education

Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, D.C., 1999 – 2002

University of British Columbia, B.A., 1975

Shows

  • Three Generations. Solo show, Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte ON, October – December 2026
  • DIS – displaced, dispersed, dispossessed. Group show, Karasawa Gallery, Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, Burnaby BC, September, 2026 – February 2027.
  • Complicated Heart. Solo show, Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa City Hall, April – August 2026.
  • Failure to Contain. Major sculpture introduced to the public at Art Toronto, October 2025.
  • Give to Get. Group Show, Ottawa Art Gallery fund raising auction
  • Echoes: Vibrations from Japan to Canada (Dance Performance). Supporting group art exhibit, Arts Court, Ottawa, December 2024
  • Magnified. Commissioned sculpture for CHEO Dream Home, August – October 2024, Ottawa
  • Inviting the Conflict. Group Show, Ottawa Art Gallery, The Annex, Ottawa, September – October 2024
  • Rising Tide: 2023 Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection. Group show, City of Ottawa Art Acquisition Exhibit, Ottawa, December 2023 – February 2024
  • Value and Obligation. Solo show, Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, September – November 2023
  • Contact Japan, community television interview, November, 2023
  • En Masse: Memory and Proliferation. Joint show, Studio 66, Ottawa ON, February 2020
  • Complicated Heart: Love, Loss and Other States of Being. Solo Show, Visual Space Gallery, Vancouver BC, 2016
  • A Steveston Beginning: Remembering My Mother. Solo Installation, Britannia Shipyards, Richmond, BC, 2016
  • Gone, Paper Festival. The Silk Workshop, Granville Island, 2010
  • Two Night Stand. Dance Performance, Vancouver International Dance Festival, 2009
  • Shinju, (Double Suicide). Theatrical Installation, Performance Works, Granville Island, Vancouver, B.C., 2008
  • Leap, An Exhibition of Art and Photography. Group Show, The Roundhouse Community Center, in conjunction with the Vancouver International Dance Festival, Vancouver, B.C., 2008
  • Art and Worship Series. Solo Show, Ellesmere United Church, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., 2008
  • In Pursuit of a Quiet Art. Solo Show, Japanese Canadian National Museum, Burnaby, B.C., 2007
  • All You Can Eat. Group Sculpture Show, Capilano University, North Vancouver, B.C., 2005
  • Out of the Rain. Invitational Fundraiser, Roundhouse, Vancouver, B.C., 2005
  • Errant Space Gallery, Solo Show, National Press Club Building, Washington, D.C., 2001
  • Open Studios, Jackson Art Center, Washington. D.C., November 2001 Whitewalls Gallery, Corcoran School, Group Sculpture Show, Washington, D.C., January 2002
  • Whitewalls Gallery, Corcoran School, Group Sculpture Show, Washington, D.C., February 2000