Nanase Shirokawa
Nanase Shirokawa is an art worker currently based in Cambridge, MA. Her research focuses on memorial making, public art, legacies of imperialism in the Pacific, visual and spatial representations of nuclear energy, and the production of architectural knowledge across print media.
She has worked at cultural institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, and the Architectural League of New York.
She holds a BA in art history from Williams College and a MS in history, theory, and criticism of architecture and art from MIT, where her thesis on the memorial parks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the discourse of peacemaking in postwar Japan received the Arthur Rotch Special Prize.
Nanase is a 2024 Book Art Research Fellow.
