{"id":11177,"date":"2021-03-27T13:33:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T17:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=11177"},"modified":"2021-03-31T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T15:07:07","slug":"tim-okamura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/tim-okamura\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Okamura"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3622\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11177-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/TimOkamura.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/TimOkamura.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/TimOkamura.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_11211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11211\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11211\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tim-with-Nurse-Tracy-in-progress.jpeg?resize=217%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tim-with-Nurse-Tracy-in-progress-scaled.jpeg?resize=217%2C300&amp;ssl=1 217w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tim-with-Nurse-Tracy-in-progress-scaled.jpeg?resize=740%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 740w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tim-with-Nurse-Tracy-in-progress-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C1062&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tim-with-Nurse-Tracy-in-progress-scaled.jpeg?resize=1110%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1110w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tim-with-Nurse-Tracy-in-progress-scaled.jpeg?resize=1480%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tim-with-Nurse-Tracy-in-progress-scaled.jpeg?resize=696%2C963&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tim-with-Nurse-Tracy-in-progress-scaled.jpeg?resize=1068%2C1477&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tim-with-Nurse-Tracy-in-progress-scaled.jpeg?resize=304%2C420&amp;ssl=1 304w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tim-with-Nurse-Tracy-in-progress-scaled.jpeg?w=1850&amp;ssl=1 1850w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tim-with-Nurse-Tracy-in-progress-scaled.jpeg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim with Nurse Tracy in progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timokamura.com\/\">Tim Okamura<\/a> investigates identity, the urban environment, metaphor, and cultural iconography through a unique method of painting &#8211; one that combines an essentially \u2018realist\u2019 approach to the figure with collage, spray paint and mixed media. The juxtaposition of the rawness and urgency of street art and academic ideals has created a visual language that acknowledges a traditional form of story-telling through portraiture, while infusing the work with resonant contemporary motifs.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Edmonton, Canada, painter Tim Okamura earned a B.F.A. with Distinction at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, Canada before moving to New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts in 1991. After graduating with an M.F.A. in Illustration as Visual Journalism, Okamura moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he continues to live and work.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Okamura &#8211; a recipient of the 2004 Fellowship in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts \u2013 has exhibited extensively in galleries throughout the world, including the U.S., Canada, Italy, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Ecuador and Turkey, and has been selected nine times to appear in the prestigious BP Portrait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Okamura was short-listed by the Royal Surveyor of the Queen\u2019s Picture Collection for a commissioned portrait of the Queen of England.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, the University of North Carolina hosted a retrospective exhibition of Okamura\u2019s work that focused on nearly a decade of production.<\/p>\n<p>Okamura received an invitation to The White House in the Fall of 2015 to honor artists whose work addresses issues of social justice \u2013 there he received a letter of commendation from Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Okamura\u2019s painting titled \u201cI Love Your Hair\u201d was selected in 2016 for inclusion in the \u201cAmerican Portraiture Today\u201d exhibition, featured at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. and subsequently toured museums across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Several of Okamura\u2019s works were recently featured in the \u201cStill I Rise\u201d exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Okamura\u2019s art is on display in the permanent collections of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Jim\u00e9nez Col\u00f3n Museum in Puerto Rico, The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Toronto Congress Center, the Hotel Arts in Calgary, Canada, and Standard Chartered Bank in London, England.<\/p>\n<p>Collectors include Uma Thurman, Meg Ryan, John Mellencamp, DJ Black Coffee, Ahmir \u201cQuestlove\u201d Thompson, athletes Courtney Lee and PK Subban, director Ben Younger, and actors Bryan Greenberg, Hill Harper, Annabella Sciorra, and Spike Lee.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11212\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11212\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11212 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PPE.jpg?resize=640%2C770&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PPE-scaled.jpg?resize=851%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 851w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PPE-scaled.jpg?resize=249%2C300&amp;ssl=1 249w, 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PPE-scaled.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;PPE&#8221;, 48 x 60&#8243;, oil, color pencil and graphite, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11213\" style=\"width: 901px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11213 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Two-Front-War-smaller.jpg?resize=696%2C697&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Two-Front-War-smaller.jpg?w=901&amp;ssl=1 901w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Two-Front-War-smaller.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Two-Front-War-smaller.jpg?resize=768%2C769&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Two-Front-War-smaller.jpg?resize=696%2C697&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Two-Front-War-smaller.jpg?resize=420%2C420&amp;ssl=1 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Two Front War&#8221;, 55 x 56, oil on canvas, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11215\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11215 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nurse-Tracy-final-version-small-file.jpg?resize=640%2C964&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nurse-Tracy-final-version-small-file.jpg?resize=680%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nurse-Tracy-final-version-small-file.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nurse-Tracy-final-version-small-file.jpg?resize=768%2C1157&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nurse-Tracy-final-version-small-file.jpg?resize=1020%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1020w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nurse-Tracy-final-version-small-file.jpg?resize=1359%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1359w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nurse-Tracy-final-version-small-file.jpg?resize=696%2C1049&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nurse-Tracy-final-version-small-file.jpg?resize=1068%2C1609&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nurse-Tracy-final-version-small-file.jpg?resize=279%2C420&amp;ssl=1 279w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nurse-Tracy-final-version-small-file.jpg?w=1593&amp;ssl=1 1593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Nurse Tracy&#8221;, 40 x 60&#8243;, oil on 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