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Jo Nakayama

is a crossdisciplinary artist who integrates psychology and creative process to explore multidirectional transformations of material encounters. Their work has been supported by various institutions including University of Pennsylvania, University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and has been invited to residencies such as the Vermont Studio Center and In Situ Polyculture Commons. 

 

Their practice includes process-oriented sculptural work in foraged materials, photography, bread making, and an extensive background in ceramic arts. They build outward from an investigation of internal experience, a creative somatic psychotherapy, ie threshold work, as it interplays with materiality; the ways discourse frames sensory perception; the transformations that leap from chaos, locating such processes within the thoughtful body. They believe in the transformative, decolonial power, the opening of space and potential, fundamental in the act of creating. Artists, in common pursuit with the psychoanalyst, continually negotiate these subtle barriers revealing the risks and bounties of the unconscious, a territory which is never far from present.

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© 2026 by Jo Nakayama. 

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