RESUME

Mitsuko Brooks

b. Misawa Air Force Base, Aomori Prefecture, Japan

Lives and works in Brooklyn

Education

2021 MLIS and Certificate in Archives and Preservation of Cultural Matierals, Queens College (CUNY), Flushing, NY

2017 MFA in Painting/Drawing, University of California Los Angeles, CA

2005 BFA, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY

2000 The Oxbow School, Napa Valley, CA

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2023 Page (NYC), Mitsuko Brooks: Mail Art Paintings, NY

2023 Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Letters Mingle Souls, Brattleboro, VT

2019 Steve Turner, Return to Sender, Los Angeles, CA

2018 Nook Gallery, Getting to know you/getting to know all about you, Oakland, CA

2017 UCLA New Wight Gallery, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA

2015 Wayfarers Presented by Ferro Strouse Gallery, Who Cares About This Feeling?, Brooklyn, NY

2012 Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, SI, NY

2009 Brick, Resuscitate La Mujer/Onna; Resuscitate Josei/La Hembra w/ Laryza Martel, Brooklyn, NY

2005 Cooper Union, Senior Thesis Show, New York, NY

2000 Oxbow School, Postcards, Napa Valley, CA

Select Group Exhibitions

2023

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Circumstances of Being, New York, NY 
Allegheny College Galleries, Invented Archives, Meadeville, PA

2022

NIAD Art Center, Feeling Language, Richmond, CA

Helen J. Gallery, Books and Things, Los Angeles, CA

Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, between and within, New York, NY

MoMA PS1, LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN 2022, presented by Visual AIDS, LIC, NY

2021

Shrine Gallery, GROUP SHOW OPEN CALL, New York, NY

Whitney Center for the Arts, Rites of Passage, Pittsfield, MA

2020

Printed Matter, We Live in Real Time: A Window Exhibition of Mail Art Made During the Pandemic, New York, NY

A.I.R. Gallery, Fe*Mail*Art: 2020 Postcard Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY

F Magazine, Mail Art, Houston, TX

Empty Set Gallery, Expect Some Discomfort, Bronx, NY

Dream Farm Commons, How are you showing care?, Oakland, CA

2019

Flux Factory, RUB, LIC, NY

Lorimoto Gallery, Ridgewood Open Kickoff, Ridgewood, NY

Field Projects, Show 55: NO PLACE LIKE (Curated by AN/ANOTHER NY), New York, NY

Japanese American Museum San Jose, Agrarianna (Curated by AAWAA), San Jose, CA

SWIM Gallery, SHARKS, San Francisco, CA

POST, Texts & Messages, Los Angeles, CA

ESMoA, Experience 39: EAT, El Segundo, CA

2018

Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, OPTIMISM ENDLESS BIENNIAL, New York, NY

CUNSTHAUS presented by Tempus Projects, MIGRANT MOTHERS, Tampa, FL

Steve Turner Gallery, Through-Line: Drawing and Weaving, Los Angeles, CA

Blue Mountain Gallery, Summer Juried Exhibition by John Yau, New York, NY

Makeroom LA, A Body of Her Own, Los Angeles, CA

2017

Smack Mellon, Race and Revolution, Brooklyn, NY

Chashama, Whitney Houston Biennial: The Greatest Love of All 2017, New York, NY

Center for Art Eagle Rock, Haunted Memories, Los Angeles, CA

Millard Sheets Art Center, SOCAL MFA 17 Juried Exhibition, Pomona, CA

Cerritos College, FAR Bazaar 2017, Norwalk, CA

2016

UCLA New Wight Gallery, MFA [Preview] 2017 Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA

Harrington Gallery Firehouse Arts Center, Transformation: 25 Years in Asian American Women Artists, Pleasanton, CA

UCLA Sculpture Gallery, HYSTERICS curated by FFF, Los Angeles, CA

2015

Rush Arts Gallery, NY State of Mind, Curator: Larry Ossei-Mensah, New York, NY

Pet Project Gallery, First Annual Headphone Festival, San Francisco, CA

2014

Materials for the Arts, Reuse Remixed Small Works Show, Curator: Luisa Tamara, LIC, NY

Kunsthalle Galapagos, (Un)Mediated, Curators: David Rios Ferreira & Christine Walia, Brooklyn, NY

Islip Art Museum, Mash Up: Collages in Mixed Media, Curator: Stephen Lamia, East Islip, NY

The Lilac Museum Steamship, Floating Library, Curator: Beatrice Glow, New York, NY

440 Gallery, Food for Thought, Curator: Jennifer Coates, Brooklyn, NY

Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, The March, NYC

Con Artist Gallery, ENDLESS, Curators: Anthony Tino & Paul John, New York, NY

California College of the Arts' Campus Center Gallery, Oxbow Alumni Exhibition, San Francisco, CA

SOMArts Cultural Center, Eating Cultures, Curators: Michelle Lee, AAWAA & Margo Machida, SF, CA

The Bridging Bushwick Sculpture Garden, Bushwick Open Studios 2014, Brooklyn, NY

Kearny Street Workshop, One Size Fits All, San Francisco, CA

Kearny Street Workshop, Thank You For Failing!, Curator: Alex Wang, Oakland, CA

Minnesota Center for Book Arts Exhibit, Fluxjob, Curators: Jeff Rathermel and Keith Buchholz, Minn., MN

Artist Curated Projects (ACP), One Thing Then Another, Curator: Jacob Robichaux, Los Angeles, CA

Local Project, El Paper Magazine’s FragmentAction, LIC, NY

2013

CurateNYC, Curator: Larry Ossei-Mensah, New York, NY

Richmond Art Gallery, Memory: International Mail Art Exhibition, B.C., Canada

The Center for Strategic Art and Architecture, Bodega Night, Curator: Lorissa Rinehart, Brooklyn, NY

SOMArts Cultural Center, underCurrents & the Quest for Space with AAWAA, S.F., CA

San Francisco Art Institute, Walter & McBean Galleries, GUTAI, S.F., CA

Recession Art, Grand Re-Opening, Brooklyn, NY

2012

Kearny Street Workshop, One Size Fits All, San Francisco, CA

Muriel Guepin Gallery, To Be Considered, Brooklyn, NY

Howland Public Library, Bound to Printed Matter, Curator: Theresa Goodman, Beacon, NY

Jamaica Center for the Arts & Learning, Big Queens Drawing Show, Queens, NY

SOHO 20 Gallery, BACKLASH/On women’s basic rights and freedoms, NYC

Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, Flowers for You, NYC

Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Crossing Borders, Curator: Pamela Ybañez, CA

Thoreau Center for Sustainability, Hungry Ghost: Yearning for Fulfillment,Curator: Lisa Chiu, AAWAA,SF,CA

Family Business, Itsa Small, Small World, Curator: Hennessy Youngman, NYC

C.A.G.E., PDF Release in collaboration with AGWF, NYC

Grants, Awards & Residencies

Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, SHIFT residency, 2022

New American Paintings, #135 MFA Annual, 2018

Common Field, Field Grant, 2017

Set on Freedom: A Retreat for Women, Trans and GNC Artists of Color, Queens Museum, 2016

Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Arts Foundation Award, 2015

Bette Midler Scholarship, 2014

Resnick Scholarship, 2014

Artist-in-Residence, Wassaic Artist Residency Program, New York, 2013

Edward & Sally Van Lier Fellowship, 2012

SHARP/Snug Harbor Artist Residency Program, 2012

February Short List Selection, BRIC Contemporary Artist Registry, 2012

Selected Bibliography

Baez, Firelei 2011,  FRENZY: Connecting the dots and shifting away , exhibition catalog, 12 August - 31 August 2011,  Space 1950, Harlem, New York.

Branfman-Verissimo, Lukaza, et al., editors. New Life Quarterly: Correspondence, 4. Wolfman Books: Oakland, CA, 2018.

Chibbaro, Julie. The Poughkeepsie Journal. “Book art on display at Beacon library.” Poughkeepsie: 2012.

Michelle Bentsman, Aaron Finbloom, Mollie McKinley & Sophie Traub (2016) Play, Process, and the Unknown, Performance Research, 21:6, 79-86, DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2016.1240928

Fressola, Michael J. Staten Island Advance. “Cutting edge art is showcased at Snug Harbor.” New York: 2012.

Gereben, Janos. “Infinite variety of Asian artists.” San Francisco Examiner. 15 May 2013: San Francisco.

Held, John. Asian American Women Artists Association: “undercurrents and the Quest for Space.” San Francisco Arts Quarterly. San Francisco: May 2013.

Leahy, Brian T. “A Mail Art Renaissance is Growing in the U.S.-Just as the Postal Service Struggles to Survive.” Art Newspaper. Online. 5 May 2020. Web. 4 June 2020.

Micchelli, Thomas 2009. Rites of Passage: 1995-2009, exhibition catalog, 21 January - 11 February 2010, Cooper Union (41 Cooper Gallery), New York, New York.

Ollman, Leah. The Los Angeles Times. “When the cover of a book becomes postcard art: Captivating messages in surprising packages.” Print. 3 August 2018. Web. 3 August 2018.

“Shopping for Art in Bushwick Bodegas.” Ridgewood Times. Print, 19 September 2013. Web. 3 October 2014.

Yu, Elena. GRAPHITE Interdisciplinary Journal of the Arts, 17. Hammer Student Association of LA. Los Angeles: 2016.

Artist Presentations

Mail Art with Mitsuko Brooks, Brooklyn Public Library (Windsor Terrace Library), Brooklyn, NY, April 2022

AMPLIFY: Responding in Context, Guest Artist Series, San Diego State University School of Art & Design, Sept 2021.

Visiting Artist Talk, UCLA Department of Art, Beginning Drawing, Los Angeles, CA, May 2021.

Tea and Letter Writing: To Our Future Selves, Japanese American National Museum & Tuesday Night Project, April 2021.

Slide Slam, Asian American Women Artist Association, San Francisco, CA, March 2021.

Artist Talk with YouthCAN, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, Seattle, WA, Nov. 2020.

Artists in Conversation: Mitsuko Brooks & Reiko Fuji, Japanese American National Museum, LA, CA, October 2020.

Studio Visit with Mitsuko Brooks, EsMOA, El Segundo, CA, May 2020.

Mail Art with Mitsuko Brooks, Printed Matter, April 2020.

Sustainable Little Tokyo Arts Action Committee, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, LA, CA, July 2019.

Slide Slam with Margo Machida, Asian American Women Artist Assoc., San Francisco, CA, Jan 2018.

Visiting Alumni Artist Lecture, Oxbow School, Napa Valley, CA, April 2017

Guest Artist Lecture, Mason Gross School of Arts Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, February 2015.

Smithsonian’s A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN Artist lecture, CineVision, Brooklyn, NY, May 2014.