Naoko Wowsugi

Naoko Wowsugi is an artist of Korean-Japanese descent based in Washington, DC. Using combined practices of visual art, local research, and community participation, Wowsugi’s projects highlight and fortify everyday communal and interpersonal identities.

Wowsugi received an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BFA from both the Kansas City Art Institute and Osaka University of Arts in Japan. Notable recent exhibitions and talks include “Fungus Among Us” at Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC (2019); “Open Engagement” at Queens Museum, Queens, NY (2018); “Ae Kai: A Culture Lab on Convergence," presented by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Honolulu, HI (2017); and "The Outwin: American Portraiture

Today," at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (2016).