Namiko Kunimoto

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Utilizing an anthropological approach to situate her inquiries of Post-war Japanese art within a larger socio-political framework, Dr. Kunimoto mines visual culture to explore questions of gender, urbanization, and nationalism. Kunimoto’s new book The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Japanese Postwar Art (Minnesota UP, 2017), “shows how contention over Japan’s new democracy was expressed, disavowed, and reimagined through representations of the gendered body.”  She has been a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and is an executive member of Japan Arts and Globalization and Vice-President of the Japanese Art History Forum. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art History at Ohio State University.