University Of Hawai'i Art Gallery - Street Nihonga The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani

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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA
UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIES: The Art Gallery, Commons Gallery, and the John Young Museum of Art
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I AT MĀNOA

Street Nihonga sheds light on Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani’s creative practice, intertwining artmaking, life narration, and street activism through the largest assembly of his works to date. The exhibition unfolds through six thematic sections: Sidewalk Stories, Street Nihonga, Tule Lake Memory-Scape, Multiple Ground Zeros, Affinities and Connections, and Entangled Memories. Traveling across Sacramento, Hiroshima, Tule Lake, and New York—and fusing Japanese painting aesthetics with street materials in collaboration with passersby and neighbors—Mirikitani’s art invites us to engage with his extraordinary life stories beyond national divides, emphasizing artmaking’s power as a means of survival, political expression, and cross-cultural dialogue.

Link to exhibition website <https://hawaii.edu/art/street-nihonga-art-jimmy-tsutimu/>
 EVENTS
Sunday, Aug. 23, 2:00-4:00 PM: Opening Reception, Gallery Talk with Curators UHM, Art Building, The Art Gallery To mark the opening of Street Nihonga, curators Dr. Maki Kaneko and Dr. Kris Imants Ercums will speak about the exhibition, its featured artist, and their curatorial process to produce this show.
Sunday, Sept. 8, 12:00-2:00 PM: Screening with Director: The Cats of Mirikitani (2006) UHM, Art Building, Auditorium, Room 132 Free public screening of The Cats of Mirikitani, the award-winning documentary film on the life and art of Jimmy Mirikitani. Director Linda Hattendorf will be present to introduce the film, talk story, and answer questions about her film and her friendship with Mirikitani.
Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, 1:00-2:30 PM: “Art and Incarceration,” Lecture and Roundtable Discussion UHM, Art Building, Room 101 Join this free public lecture and round-table discussion with Professors John Szostak (UHM), Kelli Y. Nakamura (Kapi'olani Community College), Kyle Kajihiro (UHM), and Nate Gyotoku, President & Executive Director of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, on Japanese-American art making and cultural practice under incarceration during WWII. 
This exhibition is supported by the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Friends of the Spencer Museum of Art, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Linda Inman Bailey Exhibition Fund, and George and Hillary Hirose, and is toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC. In Honolulu, funding was provided by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Bloomswell Foundation, the UHM Japan Studies Endowment, and the UHM Department of Art and Art History. Special thanks also goes to the UHM Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai‘i Foundation, and the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i in Honolulu.  The Art Gallery  University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2535 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822 (UH Mānoa campus) Tue. – Fri, & Sun. 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Free admission

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