Osamu James Nakagawa is a recipient of the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2010 Higashikawa New Photographer of the Year, and 2015 Sagamihara Photographer of the Year in Japan. He is the Ruth N. Halls Distinguished Professor of Photography at Indiana University, where he directs the Center for Integrative Photographic Studies. Born in New York City, he was raised in Tokyo, Japan, and returned to Houston, Texas, at 15 to complete his education. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of St. Thomas in Houston in 1986 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Houston in 1993. He His work has been exhibited internationally and Nakagawa’s work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; George Eastman Museum; Tokyo Photographic Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa; The Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and others. Nakagawa is represented by SepiaEYE, NYC; PGI, Tokyo; Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana.
