Photography Faculty
Osamu James Nakagawa, Associate Professor
onakagaw@indiana.edu
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.Nakagawa’s work is shown internationally, the most recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition, Kai: Osamu James Nakagawa during the International Fotofest 2000, Mado: ‘89-’99, at the Houston Center for Photography. The selected group shows include Cross-Cultural Voices II: Between Memories, Stephen Gang Gallery, New York, Cuenca, Ecuador Bienal ‘98: Borderline Figuration; Medialogue-Photography in Contemporary Art ‘98, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Field of Vision: Five Gulf Coast Photographers, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. His work has been published in Aperture: Metamorphoses, Waterproof, Exploring Color Photography, and others. He has been teaching workshops at the International Center for Photography in NY since 1999. Nakagawa received grants and fellowship from the Houston Center for Photography; the American Photography Institute, Tisch School of Arts, New York City; Cultural Arts of Houston/Harris County. His work is in the permanent collections of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Kiyosato Museum of Photography, Japan; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; and the University of Houston. He is represented by McMurtrey Gallery in Houston.
Mariana Tres, Assistant Professor
tresm@indiana.edu
Mariana Tres approaches her work in a multidisciplinary manner to illuminate untold histories and events of the natural world and to playfully examine the veracity of photography, science and recorded history. Rooted in a fascination with astronomical phenomena and imagery, her work moves fluently across media and disciplines. She utilizes photography, video, installation, found and created objects, writing/storytelling and collaboration to create museum-like installations that offer a more open interpretation of history and the natural world. Miss Tres has received numerous awards including a unique artist residency at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Her work has been exhibited nationally including at Playspace Gallery in San Francisco, Benham Gallery in Seattle and PS122 Gallery in New York and was recently highlighted in the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute and received her M.F.A from Portland State University in Visual Arts. She has taught at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University and is currently Assistant Professor of Photography at Indiana University.
Jeffrey A. Wolin, Full Professor
wolin@indiana.edu
Jeffrey A. Wolin is Ruth N. Halls Professor of Photography at Indiana University. Wolin’s series of portraits of Holocaust survivors, Written in Memory, was published by Chronicle Books, accompanying solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, International Center of Photography in New York, Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Wolin’s solo exhibition of portraits of Vietnam War Veterans opened at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago in 2005. Umbrage Editions of NYC published an accompanying book, Inconvenient Stories: Vietnam War Veterans. Wolin traveled to Vietnam twice to photograph Vietnamese war veterans and has expanded the project to include all sides of the war. From All Sides: Portraits of American and Vietnamese War Veterans is traveling to museums in the US and abroad. It will be featured at the Photo Biennale in Lyon in 2010.
His photographs are in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Houston Museum of Fine Arts; Art Institute of Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Bibliotèque Nationale de France, Paris; and Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Wolin is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is represented by June Bateman Fine Art in New York and Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago.