Discipline: Visual Art

Naoe Suzuki

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Waltham, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999
More: www.naoesuzuki.com
Naoe Suzuki is a visual artist and a recipient of many grants including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2015, Massachusetts Cultural Council (Drawing/Printmaking/Artist's Books in 2006, and Sculpture and Installation in 2001,) Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2013 & 2004,) Puffin Foundation, Artist's Fellowships, Inc., and Blanche E. Colman Award. She was awarded multiple artist residency fellowships including Blue Mountain Center, MacDowell, Jentel, and Millay Colony for the Arts. In 2017, Naoe was awarded a research residency at Tokyo Wonder Site Residency in Japan where she explored buried rivers in Tokyo for a month. From 2016 to 2017, she was appointed as the Artist-in-Residence at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a biomedical research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Naoe received M.F.A. in Studio for Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 1997, and B.A. in Art from Bridgewater State University with double minors in Dance and Women's Studies in 1992.

Studios

Firth

Naoe Suzuki worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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