Bio

Naoe Suzuki is a Japanese American visual artist born in Tokyo, Japan and lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. Her creative practice includes drawing, installation, photography, and video. Language is a recurring thread in her work. Central to her practice is emphasizing interconnectedness of our world with colonialism and its impacts on ecosystems and environmental transformation.

Naoe was awarded grants from Massachusetts Cultural Council (2022, 2006 & 2001,) Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Puffin Foundation (2023 & 2013), and Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2013 & 2004.) Her residency fellowships include Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Blue Mountain Center, MacDowell, Millay Colony for the Arts, Jentel, Studios at MASS MoCA, and Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan. Suzuki was an Artist-in-Residence at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in 2016–2017. She received an MFA in Studio for Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 1997.

Naoe lives and creates work in Waltham, Massachusetts, located on the traditional and ancestral land of the Massachusett, where the land has been inhibited and cared for by the Massachusett Tribe for thousands of years.