Tomie Arai

Born in New York City, Tomie Arai has designed both temporary and permanent public works of art for the New York City Percent for Art program, Creative Time, Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Arts & Design program, New York City Department of Education, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, all in New York City; United States General Services Administration Art in Architecture Program, Washington, DC; Cambridge Arts Council, MA; and the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Arai’s work has been exhibited nationally and her work is in public collections including the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Bronx Museum of the Arts, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles; and Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA. She is a recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and three Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Artists Residency Grants.

In 2000, Arai was one of 50 artists nationwide to participate in the Artists & Communities: America Creates for the Millennium project, sponsored by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She also received a National Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Caucus for Art in 2016. In 2019 she received the McLaughlin Award for Social Engagement. Arai lives and works in New York City.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records
 

Artist Info


Born

1949

New York, NY

Gender

Female

Nationality

American

Heritage

Japanese