Naomi Kuromiya

Naomi is a PhD candidate specializing in modern Japanese art and architecture, with an interest in the intersections of "avant-garde” and “tradition,” and multimedia collaborations and design projects of the early to mid-twentieth century. Her dissertation examines the concept of the total artwork in modern Japan, and she recently was awarded a Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Doctoral Fellowship in support of her field work. Her studies and research have also been supported by FLAS and by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. She entered the PhD program in 2017 after completing her M.A. at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, with a thesis that examined the global influence of the postwar Japanese calligraphy collective, Bokujin-kai. She previously earned an A.B. with honors in the History of Art and French Literature from Brown University. Prior to entering Columbia, Naomi worked for The Lyonel Feininger Project, and for The Museum of Modern Art, where she held the 2012-2014 Dedalus Fellowship in the Archives.