ALAN H. NAKAGAWA, SOUND / INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST
invisibleteahouse@gmail.com www.alannakagawa.com
BOOK
2023 A.I.R.HEAD Anatomy of an Artist in Residence, Alan Nakagawa, WritLarge Projects
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2024-25 Kaya Press, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA
2024-25 National Coalition for Redress/ Reparations, Gerth Archives, CalState University Dominguez Hills, CA
2022-24 L.A. Free Press/ Art Kunkin Collection AIR, Praxis Art, Gerth Archives/ CalState Dominguez Hills, L.A. CA
2019-23 Invisible Tea House AIR, Pasadena Buddhist Temple, Side Street Projects, Pasadena CA
2018-21 Creative Strategist Artist in Resident, Los Angeles County Library/ LAC Arts Commission
2018-19 Little Saigon AIR: Eight Field Trips Generating, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana CA
2018-19 Ninomiya Photography Archive AIR, Praxis Art, Gerth Archives/ CalState Dominguez Hills, L.A. CA
2017 PRINTMAKING AIR INVITATIONAL, Cerritos College, Norwalk CA
2017 -18 LA Great Streets AIR, LA Mayor’s Office, LA CA
2017 Echo Park Film Center AIR, LA CA
2016-17 CREATIVE CATALYST AIR, LADOT City of Los Angeles
2016 GETTY VILLA, Mini AIR, Myth Not Myth, Education Department, Malibu CA
2015 SMITHSONIAN, Museum of American History, Washington D.C.
2013 UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA, AIR, Sound Arts Graduate Program/ Sagrada Familia, Barcelona Spain
PERFORMANCES
2024 SOUNDWALK: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio
2024 PEACE RESONANCE: HIROSHIMA/ WENDOVER, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
2024 CONICAL SOUND: SIMON RODIO/ ANOTNI GAUDI FOR SOUTH PARK, LUMINEX 3.0, LA CA
2023 POINT OF TURN, KCHUNG/ THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA, L.A. CA
2023 FULL MOON RAKU project/ Invisible Tea House, Japanese Tea Ceremony, Koto Music, Electro-
acoustic music, guest artists, Pasadena Buddhist Temple, CA
2019 PEACE RESONANCE; HIROSHIMA/WENDOVER, Under the Mushroom Cloud, opening,
Japanese American National Museum, LA CA
2019 NINOMIYA POP UP; Gardena Obon, Pasadena Obon with students from CalState Dominguez Hills
2018 STREET HAIKUS SOUNDSCAPE 112418, piano, drums, video projection,
Mar Vista Artwalk, Mar Vista CA
2018 PEACE RESONANCE; Hiroshima/ Wendover. SoundScene, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
2018 WORLD PREMIER: Peace Resonance; Hiroshima/Wendover and Conical Sound; Simon Rodia/
Antoni Gaudi, Human Resources, L.A. CA
2017 SPEED KILLS, guerilla animation projections, Echo Park Film Center AIR, LA CA
2016 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SOUNDSCAPE ENSEMBLE, Flood, Long Beach CA
2016 ALEURONE LAYER AND COSMIC UNDERSTANDING OF COMMUNICATION, Eternal Telethon,
Human Resources, Chinatown LA CA
2016 MATERIAL MESSAGE, curated by Olga Dziubak, City Hall, Szczecin, Poland
2016 CARECEN FUNDRAISER, Carecen, LA CA
2014 CONICAL SOUND TEST, Reverb Exhibition, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance CA
2013 ALAN&EVA, w/Evitzkaya PJ, NIU Espai Artistic Contemporay, Barcelona Spain
2013 ORGAN OF CORTI (Premier), East LA REP, Los Angeles CA
2013 ISO CUBE IMPROVISATION, Deluxe Burrito/Shangrila, Joshua Tree CA
2013 ORGAN OF CORTI (excerpt), Studio Spring 2013, Redcat, LA CA
2013 ORGAN OF CORTI (excerpt), Alexis Disselkoen studio class, University of Southern California
2012 EAR DIORAMA EAR, Iso Cube and electronics, Eternal Telethon, Side Street Projects, Pasadena, CA
2012 1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE, group recitation, X-TRA 15th Anniversary, ForYourArt, LA CA
2012 ROYAL PAIN 3.0, solo electronic music and video performance, Ear Meal webcast
2012 EAR DIORAMA EAR, Iso Cube and electronics, Lost Coast Culture Machine, Fort Bragg CA
2012 EAR DIORAMA EAR, Iso Cube and electronics, Luggage Store, San Francisco CA
20212 RICHARD WOOD & FRIENDS, Iso Cube and electronics, 322 Club, Sierra Madre CA
2012 SASAKI, pop corn, stove, oscillators, FUKUSHIMA memorial curated by Mari, the wulf. LA CA
FILM, VIDEO & ONLINE
2024 Pasadena Public Art Podcasts, Arts and Cultural Affairs Division, Pasadena CA
2023 GREEN TRUCK RECALL PEDORA, IMAGE Magazine, L.A. Times
2021 OTTO:sound/BANASHI:story ; short film, Invisible Tea House,
Pasadena Buddhist Temple/ Side Street Projects
2020 TSUGU VIDEO, Side Street Projects, Invisible Tea House, Pasadena Buddhist Temple/
Side Street Projects
2018 Pasadena Public Art Podcasts, Arts and Cultural Affairs Division, Pasadena CA
2017 SPEED KILLS, Echo Park Film Center AIR, public projections/ DTLA
2015 ALEURONE LAYER AND THE COSMIC UNDERSTANDING OF COMMUNICATION,
silent animation, A Measure of Salt Exhibition, Hikmet Loe, Granary Art Center, Ephraim, Utah.
2012 LINE TO LIGHTENING FIELD, group show, Lost Coast Culture machine, Fort Bragg CA
EXHIBITIONS/ PROJECTS
2022 GREEN TRUCK RECALL PEDORA, multi-media, IMAGE, LA Times commission, LA CA
2022 Asian American Futurism, online think tank
2021 tamashiP galactic, multi-media installation, part of group exhibition “Interventions: Fresh
Perspectives After 50 years, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena CA
2020 SOCIAL DISTANCE, HAIKU AND YOU, Orange County Museum of Art, OC CA
2019 UNDER A MUSHROOM CLOUD: HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI AND THE ATOMIC BOMB, group, Japanese
American National Museum, LA CA
2019 CENTENNIEL ALUMNI EXHIBITION, group, Otis College of Art and Design, Westchester CA
2019 HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, group show, Cerritos College, CA
2019 INVISIBLE TEA HOUSE/ Pasadena Art Night interventions, Pasadena Buddhist Temple, Pasadena CA
2019 INVISIBLE TEA HOUSE/ Obon art interventions, Pasadena Buddhist Temple, Pasadena CA
2019 UNFINISHED PROOF NINOMIYA, solo exhibit, pop ups and workshops, CalState Dominguez Hills, CarsonCA
2018 RESCUE(S), solo exhibition of three installations, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana CA
2018 122 HOURS OF INK, Printmaking Residency, group exhibition, Cerritos College, Norwalk CA
2018 HER DREAM TENT. SoundScene, DC Listening Lab, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
2018 MOTHER PORTRAITS (in petri dishes), group exhibition, Kim Abeles, Keystone Gallery, L.A. CA
2018 ALAN NAKAGAWA SOLO SHOW, Visitors Welcome Center, LA CA
2017 MUDSLING (sound installation), Descanso Gardens, La Cañada CA
2017 EAR MEAL THE EXHIBITION, SoundPedro, Flood, Angels Gate Cultural Art Center, San Pedro CA
2017 NOTES ON DRAWING, Solo Exhibition, Slanguage Studio/ LAX ART, Hollywood CA
2016 MATERIAL MESSAGE, Miasto Szczecin, Obroncow Stalingradu 17, Szczecin, Poland
2016 MYTH NO MYTH, AIR and exhibition, Getty Villa, Malibu CA
2016 BROADCAST, curated by Kim Abeles & Ken Marchionno, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 MUDSLING, Solo Exhbition, Groundspace Project, L.A. CA
2015 OYAJI; THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BICAMERAL MIND, COLA Exhibition, L.A. Municipal Art Gallery
2015 ALEURONE LAYER AND THE COSMIC UNDERSTANDING OF COMMUNICATION, B&W silent
animation sci-fi, A Measure of Salt Exhibition, Hikmet Loe, Granary Art Center, Ephraim, Utah.
2014 CONICAL SOUND TEST #1, REVERB, Torrance Art Museum, CA
2014 CONICAL SOUND TEST #2, Oherenhoch, Berlin Germany
2013 SAGRADA FAMILIA Field Recording, University of Barcelona
2013 MOONDOG POLE, Soundwalk 2013, Long Beach CA
2012 FIRST IN SPACE; THE RIDE, with Joseph Tepperman, Soundwalk 2012, Long Beach CA
2011 SOUND FOREST, percussion installation, CicLAvia 2011, Los Angeles CA
2011 COOL, 2 hour sound loop for the Coolhaus Ice Cream Truck, Soundwalk, Long Beach CA
2010 SOUND BED, mobile sound sculpture, Soundwalk 2010, Long Beach CA
2009 SOUND TAXI, Otonomiyaki, 2009 Soundwalk, Long Beach CA
2009 POTA POTA, Otonomiyaki, sound installation, Glendale Arizona Jazz and Blues Festival
PUBLIC ART
2020 SANGHA SUCCULENTS WALL, Invisible Tea House, Pasadena Buddhist Temple, CA
2020 INVISIBLE TEA HOUSE MISONODANA TIME MACHINE, Invisible Tea House, Pasadena Buddhist Temple, CA
2020 UNFINISHED PROOF NINOMIYA WINDOW, Sustainable Little Tokyo Windows, LA CA
2017 SOUND FOREST & SURVEY, Great Streets, various locations, LA CA
2017 STREET PERFUME BUS STOP AND POP UP, Mar Vista Great Streets/ Vision Zero
2017 STREET HAIKU’s, 36 signs with 36 LA-based poets, Mar Vista Great Streets, LA CA
2017 IM CROSSING HERE, Proyecto Pastoral, (w Rafa Cardenas & Ni Santas) Self Help Graphics, Great Streets
2016 WORLD DAY OF REMEMBRANCE/ LA ROAD CONCERT, LADOT AIR, w Stephen Van Dyke, Los Angeles CA
2015 HOMAGE TO MISORA HIBARI, Little Tokyo Utility Box Project, Little Tokyo Service Center/ JACCC
2008 PERCUSSION FOREST, BCAM opening, LACMA, LA CA
PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA
2023 Alan Nakagawa’s Steady Gig, Dylan Grossman, 34th Street
2023 POINT OF TURN, James Underdown, Center for Inquiry Magazine
2023 A.I.R.Head: Anatomy of an Artist in Residence, Melanie Romero/ Libro Mobile
2023 AUDIO TOUR/ ILLUMINATE L.A., curated by Anuradha Vikram, LA County Department of Arts & Culture
2023 The 27 Best Books about Los Angeles in 2022, Mike Sonksen, L.A. TACO
2022 Green Truck Recall Pedroa, IMAGE Magazine, L.A. Times
2022 Two Parking Lots in Pasadena, Ana Iwataki, Georgia Magazine
2022 Forgotten histories, Devon Tsuno, L.A. Times , Los Angeles CA
2021 KAMISHIBAI, Shana Nys Dambot, L.A. Weekly
2020 2020 Year in Review, Elisa Wouk Almino, Hyperallergic
2020 Apocalypse Mix Tape, WQRT, Indiana
2020 GETTING TO THE "WE" IN ORAL HISTORY, ARTPLACE, (June 26, 2020)
2020 Quarantine projects curate pandemic inspired art/ The World/ Public Radio International
2020 This is a Story About Social Distancing and Haiku Collage, The California Story, KQED
2020 SOCIAL DISTANCE, HAIKU & YOU, CBC Listen, q with Tom Power, Canadian Radio
2020 NATIONAL POETRY MONTH CELEBRATIONS GO ONLINE, N.Y. Times
2020 THIS SOUND ARTIST IS ASKING PEOPLE TO RECORD COVID-19 HAIKUS, Smithsonian Magazine
2020 SEND THIS SOUND ARTIST YOUR QUARANTINE HAIKUS, Hyperallergic
2020 HAIKU AND YOU, L.A. Times
2019 ARTISTS IN DOTS, Public Art Review, Issue #59
2019 INVISIBLE TEA HOUSE, Kent Matsuoka, Colorado Boulevard
2019 CSUDH, RAFU SHIMPO, LA, CA
2019 OCMA, LA Times
2019 OCMA, Orange County Registry
2018 ARTISTS AND ENGINEERS, Stateline, PEW
2017- VISITINGS RADIO SHOW, host and curator
2017 Interview with Alan Nakagawa/ Public Humanities Innovator, Molly Pailet, Brown University
2018 SOAP EAR, written by Lyle Daniels
2018 HYPERALLERGIC, World Premier, written by Matt Stromberg
2018 ARTSPACE , (Japanese) Article by Kio Griffith
2018 ALAN NAKAGAWA & DAVID BELL, The People, KCHUNG Radio
2018 VISITORS WELCOME SPACE, Conversation with Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai
2017 URBAN CHANGE, Christian Science Monitor
2017 SOUND ARTIST, Folk Life, Smithsonian Museum
2017 WOULD BE SABOTEURS TAKE HEED zine, cover art
2016 CREATIVE CATALYST, Vision Zero LA website, LADOT, LA CA
2016 CREATIVE CATALYST, Alissa Walker, Gizmodo
2015 OUTSIDE THE LINES TOO, Souris Hong, Perigee Books
2015 FABRIK MAGAZINE, COLA exhibition
2015 SENTINEL, MacDowell Artist Colony Medal Day, New Hampshire
2014 ARTBOUND, KCET TV, directed by Tom Clancey and Produced by Juan Devis
2014 FORTH MAGAZINE, Cordary Art Exhibition, Hawthorne CA
2013 ALAN&EVA, CCCB Online Website, Barcelona Spain
2012 Otis School of Art and design, OMAG, Alan Nakagawa
2012 Long Beach Gazzette, Soundwalk, Long Beach CA
LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
2024 ALAN NAKAGAWA, Guest Speaker, California State University, Long Beach CA
2024 ALAN NAKAGAWA, Speaker, Tsunagari, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio
2024 WHAT IS SOUND ART?/ National Hospital Week, Los Angeles General Hospital, LA
2024 BITE HEAR/ Nature and Art as Medicine/ Scholnick & Escobar, Bixby Marsh, Carson CA
2024 WALL OF SOUND/ Art Kunkin LA Free Press, GERTH Archives, CalState Dominguez Hills, CA
2024 ARTIST LECTURE, Fine Arts Graduate, CalState University Northridge, CA
2023 BOOK TOUR, Azay Restaurant, Los Angeles CA
2023 BOOK TOUR, Chevalier Books, Los Angeles CA
2023 BOOK TOUR, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2023 BOOK TOUR, Pace University, New York New York
2023 ORAL HISTORY STRATEGIES, Oral History Association, Baltimore, Maryland
2023 BOOK TOUR, Oakland University, Detroit, Michigan
2023 BOOK TOUR, Big Car Media, Indianapolis, Indiana
2023 K Line Art Tour for AAJIL, L.A. CA
2023 Non-Fiction Writers Panel, Festival of AAPI Books Long Beach, Bille Jean King Public Library, Long Beach CA
2023 AIRHead Anatomy of an Artist in Residence, Book Release Event, Self Help Graphics, Boyle Heights CA
2023 DANCNG SOBR w/ Rafael Cardenas, podcast
2023 HISTORY AS CONTEXT/ Invisible Tea House Lecture Series, Pasadena Buddhist Temple, CA
2023 CONFLICT & MUTUALITY/ Invisible Tea House Lecture Series, Pasadena Buddhist Temple, CA
2023 BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH THE ARTS/ IInvisible Tea House Lecture Series, PBT CA
2022 ILLUMINATE LA, Anuradha Vikram, LA County Department of Arts and Culture
2022 INVISIBLE TEA HOUSE, Oral History Association Conference, LA CA
2022 DEVON TSUNO & ALAN ANAKAGAWA, lecturer series, AK Jenkins, Wild Card, Culver City CA
2022 SOUND ART PROJECTS, Kim Zumpfe Cinematic Studies Department, USC, LA CA
2022 ARTIST LECTURE, Marsha Hopkins Class, Otis College of Art and Design, L.A. CA
2022 DAY OF REMEMBERANCE, Key Note, Nikkei Student Union, CalPoly San Luis Obispo
2021 ALUMNX ARTIST TALK SERIES, (101421) Otis School of Art and Design, L.A. CA
2021 VISITINGS Radio Show Curriculum, Raghubir Kaur Khalsa, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
2020 VISTINGS Radio Show Curriculum, public domain, Jessica Rath, Hikaru Haneda, Arts Center, Pasadena CA
2020 Affinity Group, Communities Losing their Language/ ARTPLACE SUMITT
2020 Joy Fanatic, Terrence McClain, IG
2020 AUDIO, Art + Practice and California African American Museum
2019 KAWATA-AYON-COURAGE, a collaborative mail art project with the
Museum of Contemporary Art and the Go For Broke Education Center, LA CA
2019 PUBLIC PRACTICE, Karla Diaz instructor, CalState Long Beach CA
2019 Artist Lecture, CalState Long Beach CA
2019 Artist Lecture, Fine Arts Gallery, CalState Dominguez Hills
2019 ALTERNATIVE PRACTICES/ Alexis Disselkoen and Maura Bowers, Art Center, Pasadena CA
2019 Common Ground Series, Isabell Harada & Alan Nakagawa, LA Contemporary Archive
2019 Community Arts, Instructor: Gabie Strong, Otis College of Art and Design, LA CA
2019 Active Workshop, Arts4LA
2018 Write Large Press: Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed, Alan Nakagawa & Jenny Yang, Beach=Culture, Annenberg
Community Beach House, Santa Monica CA
2018 Artwork, Art 101, Craig Cree Stone class, CalState Long Beach, CA
2018 Artwork, Alternative materials, Jessica Rath class, Art Center @ Visitors Welcome Center, LA CA
2018 Artwork, Shannon Scrofano & Eyvind Kang class, CalArts, Valenica CA
2017 ART PRACTICE, Joseph Kunkel’s class, School of Fine Arts, George Washington University, DC
2017 PODCASTING, moderated by Torrey Malatia, Brown Arts Initiative, Brown University, Providence RI
2017 ART PRACTICE, School of HUMANITIES, Brown University, Providence RI
2017 ART PRACTICE, Anne Bray’s class, School of Digital Arts, University of Southern California
2017 ART TALK, panel discussion, El Segundo Museum of Art, El Segundo CA
2017 ALAN NAKAGAWA AIR, Artist Gardens, Speed Kills animation, Echo Park Film Center LA CA
2017 EAR MEAL WEBCAST, AIR, Echo Park Film Center, LA CA
2017 ORAL HISTORY, AIR, Echo Park Film Center, LA CA
2017 ALAN NAKAGAWA, Creativity, Folk Life, Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C.
2017 re|ACT: SONIC ECOLOGIES, panel discussion, Brown Arts Initiative, Brown University, RI
2016 MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES Peace Table, Panelist, Queens Museum, NY
2015 ORAL HISTORY PRACTICE, Guest Lecturer, CalArts, Valencia CA
2014 ART OPPORTUNTIES, Lecturer, Metro Art, City of Santa Clarita, Santa Clarita CA
2013 ALAN NAKAGAWA, Sound Art, Artist Residency, University of Barcelona
2013 ALAN NAKAGAWA, Oral History Techniques, University of Barcelona
2013 ALAN NAKAGAWA, Art Institute, San Bernardino CA
2013 ORGAN OF CORTI (excerpt), Alexis Disselkoen, University of Southern California
2013 ALAN NAKAGAWA, LA & Culture Class, University of Southern California
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2022 Point of Turn, Individual Commission, Prospect Art, Los Angeles CA
2020 Individual Artist Grant, OTTO:Sound/BANASHI:Story, Pasadena Cultural Affairs
2019 Project Grant(s), Pasadena Art Alliance
2016 Artist Fellowship, ART MATTERS FOUNDATION, NY NY
2014 City of LA (COLA) Artist Fellowship, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of L.A.
2013 Cultural Exchange International, University of Barcelona
Artist in Residence, LA Department of Cultural Affairs
2013 USA Arts, crowd source fundraiser for Sound Bed fabrication
2012 Mid-career Artist Fellowship, California Community Foundation
EDUCATION
2016 Institute of Art and Olfaction, Chinatown, LA CA
2015 Sewing Lessons, Sew LA, Atwater, Los Angeles CA
2010 Oral History Program Workshops, University of California Los Angeles
1990 Theater Design, Japan University, Monbusho Scholarship, Tokyo Japan
1988 Japanese Language, Osaka School of Foreign Studies, Monbusho Scholarship, Osaka, Japan
1988 MFA, Studio Arts, University of California Irvine
1986 BFA, Studio Arts, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles CA202
1985 Mural Training Program, Social & Public Art Resource Center, Venice CA
1977-83 Drum Lessons, Hugh Allison, Drum City, Hollywood CA
1973-80 Shizue Yamashiro Art School, Los Angeles CA
AFFILIATIONS
2024 Member, World Federation of Acoustic Ecology
2023-24 Advisory Committee Member, Prospect Arts, Los Angeles
2023-24 Committee Member, Asian American Justice and Innovation Lab
2023-24 Artist Advisory Committee, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles
2022-24 Emerging Professionals Committee, Oral History Association, Los Angeles Committee
2020-24 Bicycle Meals
2016-20 Ghost Bikes Los Angeles
2017 Art Committee, Restorative Justice Program, Camilo Cruz, City of LA
1998-99 Community Liaison, California Bar Association, Los Angeles