Tamiko Kawata (born in Kobe, Japan) received her BFA in Sculpture at Tsukuba University and moved to New York in 1962. She has received awards and fellowships from MeetFactory in Chez, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for Arts and the Fellowship, Empire State Alliance, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Louise Bourgeois Residency Award in Yaddo, and Edward Albee Art Foundation. Her works are in the permanent collections of Montreal Museum for Contemporary Art, Racine Art Museum, LongHouse Reserve, Museum for Arts and Design, Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum, Hawaii Art Museum, and many other private collections in Japan.
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