Brent Nakamoto

Brent Nakamoto is a Queer, Japanese-American, and Buddhist artist with a background in painting and drawing, printmaking, photography, and book arts. Originally from the California Bay Area, he currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. He is the Program and Marketing Coordinator for Brew House Arts, a non-profit arts organization where he manages the Distillery Emerging Artist Residency. He has also taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, the Community College of Allegheny County, and Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media, and has facilitated workshops at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair, Contemporary Craft (PA), and Poster House (NY). He has shown work nationally and internationally, including in California, Saint Louis, New York, Pittsburgh, and Kolkata, India, and his work is included in the University of Maryland Art Gallery permanent collection. In 2022, he curated “Plain Silk, Uncarved Wood,” an exhibition of eight Asian-American artists living in Pittsburgh, and his critique of the 58th Carnegie International was published by Bunker Review in April 2023. He is the owner and operator of Almost Perfect Press, a curatorial and publishing project specializing in hand-bound, small-batch publications featuring emerging writers and artists.His work is informed by his experience and knowledge as a queer person of color, a mixed Japanese-American, and a practicing Zen Buddhist.