Sherwood Chen

Sherwood Chen has worked as a performer with artists including Anna Halprin, Min Tanaka, Xavier Le Roy, l’agence touriste, inkBoat, Ko Murobushi, Liz Santoro, Grisha Coleman, Arcane Collective and Sara Shelton Mann. In 2009, he formed dance collaborative Headmistress with choreographer Amara Tabor-Smith, and together they are artists in residence at ODC in San Francisco (2012-2015). Sherwood has worked with Body Weather Laboratory training, initiated by Tanaka, since 1993, and was a resident member of Tanaka’s international performance collective Mai Juku in rural Japan. He has facilitated Body Weather Laboratory and danced with Oguri, Roxanne Steinberg, and Melinga Ring in … Continued

Dorothy Cowfield

Dorothy Cowfield sings a more jazz-inspired blend of hillbilly. Her debut album, I’m a Cowgirl, is a less alternative take on country music than what is currently popular. Instead of going the rockabilly or pop route, Dorothy has chosen to stay closer to the roots. In a genre she likes to call “cowgirl jazz,” the songs are heavy on vocals and the music provides a hauntingly sweet backdrop.

Kenta Furusho

Kenta was born in Kumamoto Japan and his work is included in the permanent research archive at the Asian American Arts Center in New York city.

Evren Celimli

Born in New York City in 1971. He grew up in Boston and attended the New England Conservatory extension division where he began studying music theory at age 11. His first serious piece, composed as a sophomore in high school, was accepted into Boston University’s High School Composers Workshop. As a senior in high school he received First Prize in the Harvard Musical Association’s achievement awards. After high school Mr. Celimli continued his studies at Brandeis University where he studied with Eric Chasalow and Allen Anderson. The Lydian String Quartet (in residence at Brandeis) performed his String Quartet and he … Continued

Heimo Lattner

Born in 22. 7. 1968 in Eisenstadt, 1995 Go to New York, 2001 Go to Berlin, 1991-1995 Study at Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Wien, 2000-2001 Studied at Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, New York

Miyuki Tsugami

Born in Osaka in 1973. MA of Kyoto University of Art and Design. Artist Statement ; The main theme of her work is “scenery” but she does not mean drawing the real scenery. Instead, she tries to re-establish time and space within a given scenery in a most defined way. By looking at her drawing, one will be able to experience the emotion that the drawing projects. Also, she uses many materials for her works and this is because she applies specific material for specific work. She is one of the most hopeful young artists in Japan.

Hiromi Iuchi

Born in Shikoku Island in Japan, 1981, Hiromi started drawing and painting when she was 4. The subject of Hiromi’s paintings is always an imaginary girl  with a textile-like pattern on her face. However, the main subject matter is the extreme emotion hidden behind the face. 

Naoki Iwakawa sitting in font of a canvas

Naoki Iwakawa

Naoki Iwakawa was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1967. Growing up, he became interested the New York art world after reading about it in magazines. He graduated from Osaka University of the Arts, where he also taught briefly as an assistant professor of Graphic Design. At the age of 24 he moved to New York City, where he began showing art at OK Harris and Noho Gallery in Manhattan. In 1996, he co-founded the CAVE, an experimental art space that fostered an eclectic group of musicians, artists, and performers. At the CAVE, he further developed his interest in live performance … Continued

Shige Moriya

Shige Moriya (Officer/Founder/Artistic Director) is an installation and video artist, and the founder and Artistic Director of the CAVE, a multimedia performance space, gallery and artist in residence space in Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY. Shige mixes live feed video with pre-edited materials and projects the images into sculpture constructed of layers of thin translucent screens. Shige invites audience and performer to enter the sculpture and discover further abstractions of a stretched two dimensional space.  Video-installation artist and curator, Shige Moriya (born in Kyoto, Japan) has been in New York since 1993. He first worked as an exhibition curator in Soho, but … Continued