Water Stories: the Podcast

Water Stories: the Podcast, produced by BioBAT Art Space and hosted by Eve Barro, offers an immersive exploration into the intricate relationship between humans and water. I was honored to be interviewed by Eve in the second episode of "Water Stories: the Podcast." I talked about my project Flow, which engages communities through shared stories of water, fostering kinship and reciprocity.

Still from Daydreaming, video. 2023

Faculty Exhibition
September 3 - 26, 2024
Jannotta Gallery, Brown Fine Arts Center
Smith College
20 Elm Street
Northampton, MA


Art that Matters to the Planet: Clarity
August 2 - October 27, 2024
Roger Tory Peterson Institute
311 Curtis Street Exd, Jamestown, NY

Art that Matters to the Planet: Clarity explores the role of art and artists in protecting freshwater ecosystems (including lakes and ponds, rivers and streams, and freshwater wetlands) across the country, and all of the life they support (including fish, reptiles and amphibians, birds and mammals).

Installation view from "Language, Like Letters" at the Lunder Arts Center Gallery, Lesley University. 2024. Photo: Will Howcroft


Exquisite River (Group show)
April 14 - June 2, 2024
Ely Center of Contemporary Art
51 Trumbull Street, New Haven CT 06510


Language, Like Letters (Three-persons show)
Gabriel Sosa, Naoe Suzuki, and Kenson Truong
February 1 - March 3, 2024
Lunder Arts Center Gallery, Lesley University
1801 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA


State of the Earth (group exhibition)
August 29 - September 27, 2023
Midway Gallery
15 Channel Center Street Boston MA 02210
View the online exhibit catalog.


Flow: A River Walk and Participatory Art Installation about Water (solo exhibition) - in collaboration with the Waltham Land Trust on public programming
September 1 - October 6, 2023
Lincoln Arts Project Gallery
289 Moody Street, Waltham, MA

This exhibit is in part supported by the grants from the Waltham Cultural Council and the Puffin Foundation.


Flow (group exhibition)
September 2 - October 15, 2023
Lore Degenstein Gallery at Susquehanna University
514 University Ave
Selinsgrove, PA 17870

This exhibition addresses how water systems support life, while acknowledging that water is more than its use-value as a commodity. The exhibition catalog is available for purchase.


Flow
Nature Positive Hub @ NY Climate Week (organized by Nature4Climate.org)
September 18 - 20, 2023
101 Park Avenue, Convene
New York City, NY

My installation at Nature Positive Hub is funded by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Read the event summary.


Layered Time: Naoe Suzuki - On Land (solo exhibition)
April 12 - May 29, 2021
Spoke Gallery
South Boston, MA
Read the curatorial essay by Kathleen Bitetti, and an interview.


Mapping
October 19 - December 9, 2020
Rivers School, Weston, MA.

Field Notes, II from solo show, "Mapping" at the Rivers School, 2020

Teaching
Naoe is teaching Five College Advanced Studio Seminar at Smith College this fall. The course title is "Socio-ecological relationships and decolonization in studio." Northampton, MA.

Naoe is a MFA Faculty in the Low-Residency MFA in Visual Arts Program at Lesley Art + Design. Cambridge, MA. 2024.

Residency at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
March 13 - April 13, 2023
Sitka's 2022-2023 residency season's sixth cohort of residents are Orquidia Velasquez, Zeyn Joukhadar, Suze Woolf, Naoe Suzuki, Karina Hurtado-Ocampo and Carolyn Hazel Drake.

Grant from World Wide Fund for Nature
Naoe received a funding from the Worldwide Fund for Nature to present her proejct Flow at Nature Positive Hub at NY Climate Week in New York City in September, 2023.

Grant from the Waltham Cultural Council
Naoe received a partial funding for her exhibit, Flow in Waltham, MA in September, 2023.

Grant from the Puffin Foundation
Naoe received a partial funding for her exhibit, Flow in Waltham, MA in September, 2023.

Roundtable discussion about water
Naoe lead the roundtable discussion entitled "Expressing and Exploring the Power of Water in Artworks: Giving Voice, Body, and Vision to Water" at TransCultural Exchange’s International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Create the Future, November 4 - 6, 2022. Boston Colleges of the Fenway, Boston, MA.

Broad Discovery Center
Naoe's work is incorporated in the design for the opening gallery at the Broad Discovery Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Opened to the public in September, 2022.

Residency at the Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA.
March 16 - 29, 2022.

Visiting Artist at the Rivers School, Weston, MA. Fall 2020.

Medicine Men and Women, Artists/Activists Award from the Medicine Wheel Productions. June, 2020.

Naoe Suzuki: Artist in Residence, Broad Institute on YouTube.

Research Residency Fellowship. Tokyo Wonder Site Residency, Japan.
Naoe researched on hidden rivers (ankyo) in Tokyo for a month. January, 2017.

Thinking with the "Flow" Exhibit The Quill, Susquehanna University, October 3, 2023

Featured Alumni Project: Naoe Suzuki's Extinction Series on BMC Blog. December, 2021.

Q&A with SPOKE artist Naoe Suzuki on SPOKE Gallery blog. May 21, 2021.

Think About Water on World Water Day on Artists & Climate Change. March 22, 2021, and Art spiel. June 21, 2021. Written by Susan Hoffman Fishman.

What Role Does Research Play in Your Art? on ArtSake, a blog for the Massachusetts Cultural Council. December 15, 2020.

Naoe Suzuki: Artist in Residence, Broad Institute on YouTube.

Watch the presentation about Naoe's work on water.

Chain Letters for CHART Gallery. February, 2022.

Sharing my story on anti-Asian racism. Blog post for the Harvard Fine Arts Library's blog. April, 2021.

Sign up to receive news on upcoming exhibits and updates.

Water Stories & News from Japan

Language, Like Letters at Lesley University

Flow & Nature Positive 2023

Upcoming Exhibitions: Flow x 3

Land Water Climate Change

Layered Time: On Land opens

Think About Water: Virtual Opening

"Transition of Power: 2021" exhibit opens

Solo Show, "Mapping" at the Rivers School

Turning the Wheel Virtual Event

Charting the World: Subjective Map Making opens this Thursday

Celebrating Art and Science at the Broad Institute

Excerpts closing soon & New exhibit opens at Broad Institute

Solo show: Excerpts and more

Meditative Nature & Publication: WordPower

Upcoming Workshop and Panel talk at the Boston Public Library

Review in the Boston Globe

Upcoming Fall Exhibitions 2018

WAKE - Exhibition about water Opens on 5/6

Now on view on three locations: Artist-in-Residence projects from the Broad Institute

Artist-in-Residence Exhibit at the Broad Institute

News from Tokyo Wonder Site Residency

HUB week Event & Artist in Residence at Broad Institute

Spring News from MASS MoCA Residency

Soup, Wind and Water

Be Water, My Friend: Catalog publication

Upcoming Exhibition: In Solidarity