Bio:

Osamu James Nakagawa was born in New York City; raised in Tokyo, Japan and returned to Houston, Texas at the age of 15.  He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of St. Thomas Houston in 1986 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Houston in 1993.   Currently, Nakagawa is an associate professor of photography at Indiana University.

His work has been shown all over the globe and is is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago Columbia College and others.

In 2009 he was a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and in 2010 received the Higashikawa New Photographer of the Year Award.

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