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  • email bishikura@massart.edu
  • education
    • MFA, 2D Fine Art, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
    • ALM, Linguistics, Harvard University, Extension
    • BFA, 3D Fine Art, Maryland Institute College of Art.

Industry Experience

Recent Exhibitions:

  • 2023 – Barbara Ishikura & Isabelle Higgins, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, Ma
  • 2023 – For the Love of Bad Taste, Barbara Ishikura & Samantha Fields, Wilson Museum at SVAC, Manchester, VT
  • 2022 – I Like Your Work Podcast, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, Ma
  • 2022 – We Interrupt This Program, LaMontagne Gallery & Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Ma
  • 2021 – Spring Fever, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT

Artist Residencies & Awards:

  • 2022 – Cill Railiag, Artist Residency, Fellowship, Ireland
  • 2019 – Art New England Emerging Artist, March/April
  • 2019 – The Studios at MASS MoCA: An Assets for Artists Program & Grant, North Adams, MA
  • 2019 – Jentel, Artist Residency, Fellowship, Banner, WY
  • 2018 – Emerging Artist Award and Grant, St. Botolph Club Foundation, Boston, Ma

Publications:

  • The Boston Globe,”See and Be Seen,” Praise Shadows Gallery, Brookline, Ma, January 2021.
  • Art New England, “Unmasked, Artful Responses to the Pandemic,” March 28, 2021.
  • Art New England, “10 Emerging New England Artists,” A Jury of Six Selects an
  • Extraordinary Ten, March/April 2019
  • Big Red and Shiny, MassArt’s 2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition by Stace Brandt, May 8, 2018.

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