Where We’ve Been

Exhibition Venues

Coming in 2028, Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens Delray Beach, Florida “Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit: Triumphing over Adversity Japanese American WWII Incarceration Reflections, Then and Now.” May 5 - October 22, 2028.

2025 J-Sei Cultural Center, Emeryville, California “Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit: Triumphing over Adversity Japanese American WWII Incarceration Reflections, Then and Now.” February 10- July 19, 2025.

2025 San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, California “Reflecting on Ruth Asawa and The Garden of Remembrance” February 4- April 12 2025.

2024 San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, California “Reflecting on Ruth Asawa and The Garden of Remembrance” February 24- April 6, 2024.

2023 Palm Beach Photographic Centre Museum, Palm Beach, Florida “A Celebration of LIFE: It’s Been A Minute!” July-August.

2023 Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Nikkeijin Illinois” February- December 2023.

2022 San Bruno BART Station, “Tanforan Incarceration 1942; Resilience Behind Barbed Wire” San Bruno, California, site of the Tanforan Assembly Center during WWII, August 2022-Permanent.

2022 Oregon Historical Society Portland, Oregon May 27, 2022- August 7, 2022 “Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit: Triumphing over Adversity Japanese American WWII Incarceration Reflections, Then and Now.”

2021 California Museum August 5- November “Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit: Triumphing over Adversity Japanese American WWII Incarceration Reflections, Then and Now.”

2021 JKCG Gallery Mercer County Community College Trenton, New Jersey “The Mark and the Memory”

2020 festival della FOTOGRAFIA ETICA World Report Award | Documenting Humanity Short Story Award finalist

2019 The Presidio San Francisco, California January 18, 2019 -September 1, 2019 “Then They Came for Me.”

2018 Japanese America National Museum Los Angeles, California November 17, 2018- April 28, 2019 "Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit: Triumphing over Adversity Japanese American WWII Incarceration Reflections, Then and Now."

2018 Glendale Central Library, Reflect Space gallery Glendale, California May 29 - July 8, 2018 Accused of No Crime Japanese Incarceration in America.

2018 Blue Line Arts Roseville, California April 13, 2018 -June 2, 2018 "Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit: Triumphing over Adversity Japanese American WWII Incarceration Reflections, Then and Now"

2018 International Center of Photography New York, NewYork projection February 20-26, 2018 "Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit: Triumphing over Adversity Japanese American WWII Incarceration Reflections, Then and Now"

2018 California State University Chico, California Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology January 30 -August 2, 2018 "Imprisioned at Home"

2017 Historical Fort Snelling St. Paul, Minnesota May 27, 2017 - September 28, 2017

2017 Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington D.C. February 2017-July 2019 “Righting a Wrong:Japanese Americans and World War II”

2017 Manzanar National Monument, Lone Pine, California  April-May 2017

2016 Tuscon Desert Art Museum Tuscon, Arizona November 4, 2016 - April 30, 2017

2015 Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center Portland, Oregon October 17 2015– January 17, 2016 

2015 Viewpoint Photographic Art Center Sacramento, California May 8- June 6        

2015 The California Museum Sacramento, California January 29 - May 3 ·        

2012 Current Tanforan BART Station San Bruno, California

TELEVISION, Documentary films / RAdio

KPIX / CBS February 20, 2025

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American Masters — Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning explores the life, passions and uncompromising vision of the influential photographer, whose enduring images document five turbulent decades of American history, including the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and World War II Japanese internment camps.

 

SPEAKING Events

J-Sei Cultural Center, Emeryville, California, CAPTURING MOMENTS with Photojournalists Paul Kitagaki, Jr and Renée C. Byer, July 19, 2025

J-Sei Cultural Center, Emeryville, California, Lecture and book signing March 1, 2025

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens October 7, 2023 Delray Beach, Florida

Oregon Historical Society July 15, 2022 Portland, Oregon

FOTOfusion 2022 Palm Beach Photographic Centre March 3, 2022

University of California Santa Barbara, Lecture, April 2021

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Conscience and Religious Freedom Division,Office for Civil Rights February 2022

Portland Art Museum Photography Brown Bag Talks June 2021

University of San Diego School of Leadership and Education Sciences lecture March 2021

Tadaima! a virtual community pilgrimage Japanese American Community Pilgrimages July 2020

Asian American Journalism Association #AAJA2020 Visbility Fest August 2020

Oakland Museum of California June 2020

Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages June 2020

Vanport Mosaic Festival Motion Portland, Oregon May 2020

Vanport Mosiac Festival Portland, Oregon May 2020

Japanese American National Museum April 2019

Then They Came For Me April 2019

Japanese American National Museum February 2019

Friends of Fort Snelling September 2017

Manzanar Committee March 2017

JASM January 2017

Visit Saint Paul 2017

Twin Cities JACL December 2016

Portland Mercury October 2016

Densho Interview October 2015

California Museum April 2015

Northern California Time of Remembrance 2015

Discover Nikkei April 2012