Maker
Tamao Nakayama
Tamao Nakayama was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, and moved to the U.S. when she was 25 years old. She is still deeply influenced by the Japanese aesthetic, and the belief that 'less is more'. She is a minimalist abstract artist. She paints and sculpts. From 2001 to 2004, Tamao studied art and ceramic sculpture at Santa Rosa Junior College, and studied glass, metal, and furniture design at Palomar College in California. She won scholarship awards from California College of Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Savannah College of Art and Design, but decided to move to Los Angeles for real-world experience instead. There she worked for furniture designers, interior designers and architects. Since Tamao moved from California to Virginia in 2020, she has had group exhibitions at Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia. Her artworks have been selected for the OmniRide Bus Shelter Beautification Public Art Project, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority art project, and
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I am interested in lights as art materials.
