Bio:
Currently an Instructor at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Mayumi Nishida was born in Shimonoseki, Japan and currently lives in Lamy NM. Mayumi has traveled extensively, experiencing 21 countries and 35 US states. Traveling inspires her awareness of one’s standing, agency, and existence in connection to both natural and cultural environments. Nishida’s conceptual-perceptualist artworks explore conscious and unconscious experience through sculptural installations involving light and space. She has explored subjects as diverse as water collection as Land Art, LED lights emulating raindrops falling activated by viewers pouring water, and the remarkable effects of glass marble works backed by mirrors that appear to change visually in relation to the viewers’ own movement. Glass and transparency play a special role in many of her artworks, and viewer perception accompanied by actual or implied action is usually key. Inverse Pyramid is a large (12’x12’x9’) inverted pyramidal form with a composed of 761 smaller pyramids cast in silk that meticulously capture light and play with pattern, while making subtle political points about the history of the silk industry in Japan. The piece was included in the 516 Arts exhibition “Artists as Knowledge Carriers” in Albuquerque, NM and the “Transforming Space – Transforming Fiber” exhibition at the Las Cruces (NM) Museum of Art in 2016. The piece was exhibited in Roswell NM in 2017/18 as well. Nishida was graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in sculpture from the University of Colorado at Denver and received an MFA with distinction from the University of New Mexico. She was the recipient of the International Sculpture Center (ISC) Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award in 2000, and the Juror’s Choice Award at the Albuquerque Contemporary Exhibition in 2004.
Currently an Instructor at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Mayumi Nishida was born in Shimonoseki, Japan and currently lives in Lamy NM. Mayumi has traveled extensively, experiencing 21 countries and 35 US states. Traveling inspires her awareness of one’s standing, agency, and existence in connection to both natural and cultural environments. Nishida’s conceptual-perceptualist artworks explore conscious and unconscious experience through sculptural installations involving light and space. She has explored subjects as diverse as water collection as Land Art, LED lights emulating raindrops falling activated by viewers pouring water, and the remarkable effects of glass marble works backed by mirrors that appear to change visually in relation to the viewers’ own movement. Glass and transparency play a special role in many of her artworks, and viewer perception accompanied by actual or implied action is usually key. Inverse Pyramid is a large (12’x12’x9’) inverted pyramidal form with a composed of 761 smaller pyramids cast in silk that meticulously capture light and play with pattern, while making subtle political points about the history of the silk industry in Japan. The piece was included in the 516 Arts exhibition “Artists as Knowledge Carriers” in Albuquerque, NM and the “Transforming Space – Transforming Fiber” exhibition at the Las Cruces (NM) Museum of Art in 2016. The piece was exhibited in Roswell NM in 2017/18 as well. Nishida was graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in sculpture from the University of Colorado at Denver and received an MFA with distinction from the University of New Mexico. She was the recipient of the International Sculpture Center (ISC) Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award in 2000, and the Juror’s Choice Award at the Albuquerque Contemporary Exhibition in 2004.
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