Seirin Nagano
Heritage: Japanese
Seirin Nagano is a mixed-media artist originally from Tokyo, Japan. After training as an oil painter in Japan, she moved to the U.S., where she earned her BFA in Fine Art and MFA in an interdisciplinary art program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her works have been shown in the U.S. and Japan including at the Rowe Gallery (Charlotte, NC), Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC), Electronic Arts Intermix (Chelsea, NY), Governors Island Art Fair (NYC, NY), Interstate Projects (Brooklyn, NY), and Glasshouse Project (Brooklyn, NY).
Her works are based on giving visual and physical structures to the spaces where internal and external matters communicate. She incorporates architectural, geometric, and organic elements to create structures around those mysterious phantom spaces that house the corporeal, mental, emotional, and spiritual components of life.
She currently lives and works in Charlotte and teaches Japanese and its culture at the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation at UNC Charlotte. She is the Co-Director of Goodyear Arts, where she is also one of their Collective Artists.
SAMPLE ARTWORK
All artwork © Seirin Nagano
“When I was a child, I often wondered how we know that we exist. I had a fantasy that we are all living in a giant creature’s dream that could end at any moment if he wakes up.”