Noriko Okada

Noriko Okada is a Ph.D. student who studies with Professor Alicia Volk at the University of Maryland. Her research interest is Japanese and Japanese diaspora artists who worked in the 20th century United States. Her questions deal with the issues of identity and representation, transcultural artistic exchange, and national politics behind visual expressions.

Noriko is from Osaka, Japan. She earned her BA in Aesthetics and Art Theory from Doshisha University, and her MA in Art History and MFA in Visual Arts from Purchase College, State University of New York. Her MA thesis “Exotic Flowers: Artful Identity of Yasuo Kuniyoshi” was awarded M.A. Prize in Art History, Criticism & Theory. She has taught undergraduate art history and studio art courses at SUNY colleges. At Japan Society in New York, she was a gallery intern assisting exhibitions, such as When Practice Becomes Form and Shikō Munakata: A Way of Seeing, and has worked with the team occasionally since then. Noriko has also served as a translator for Bunkachō (Japan Cultural Agency) Art Platform Japan project, and worked for Saburo Hasegawa Memorial Gallery in Ashiya.