Namiko Kunimoto

Namiko Kunimoto

Namiko Kunimoto

Associate Professor of History of Art
She/Her

kunimoto.3@osu.edu

212 Pomerene Hall
1760 Neil Ave
Columbus, OH 43210

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Areas of Expertise

  • Japanese Art, particularly modern and contemporary
  • Photography
  • Asian American art
  • Performance art

Education

  • B.A., Art History and Anthropology, University of British Columbia
  • M.A., Art History, University of British Columbia
  • Ph.D., History of Art, University of California, Berkeley

Namiko Kunimoto is a specialist in modern and contemporary Japanese art, with research interests in diasporic art, gender, race, urbanization, photography, visual culture, performance art, transnationalism, and nation formation. She is the Director of the Center for Ethnic Studies at Ohio State University and Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art.   

Her essays include “Olympic Labor and Displacement: Babel and Its Towers” in Review of Japanese Art and Culture, (2023), “Art in Transwar Japan” ThirdText (2022), Situating “Becoming a Statue of a Japanese ‘Comfort Woman:’ Shimada Yoshiko, Bourgeois Liberalism and the Afterlives of Japanese Imperialism” Verge: Studies in Global Asia, (2022) “Tsujimura Kazuko and the Body Object” in Asia Pacific Japan Focus (2021), and “Tactics and Strategies: Chen Qiulin and the Production of Space” in Art Journal (2019). Dr. Kunimoto’s awards include a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellowship, Japan Foundation Fellowships (2007 and 2016), Ishibashi Foundation Fellowship (2021), a College Art Association Millard/Meiss Author Award (2017), and the Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award (2019). Her book, The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art, was published in February 2017 by the University of Minnesota Press and she is currently working on her next book, Imperial Animations: Afterlives of Japanese Empire in Transpacific Contemporary Art.

 


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