Bianca Nozaki-Nasser
Education
2018 MFA, Media Design Practice, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2014 BA, Communications, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Residences
2022 Inagural Cohort, Design Drafts, Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam & Disegno Journal, Rotterdam & London
2020 Artist In Residence, Habibi House, Detroit, Michigan (Canceled Due to COVID-19)
2019 Artist In Residence, Activation Residency, Woodbridge, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Making Time, William Grant Still Art Center & One Institute, Los Angeles, CA
2022 In These Times, Art Core LA, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA,
Group Exhibitions & Performances
2023 Dear Lover / Dear Habibi, LA LGBT Center & One Institute, Los Angeles, CA
2019 potluck: meet me between san pedro, first, requena and central, Windows Of Little Tokyo, Aratani Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
2019 A Few of Our Favorite Femmes, Art Work For Equity Advocacy Campaign, Creative Reaction Lab x The Novel Neighbor Show, St. Louis
2018 Just&, Compass: Navigating Multiness, Swarthmore
2017 seven spices, SUM, Mexico City, MX
2016 student body pillow, Wind Tunnel Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Selected Publications
2022 “a love letter,” Disegno: The Quarterly Journal of Design #34
2022 “Linear Time,” The Syllabus Project, Level Ground
2020 Introduction, amwa cookbook 01:potluck, Vol. 1,amwa, 2020
2019 “Learning From The Kia’i At Mauna Kea,”, 18 Million Rising
2018 Reconstructing Practice: Toward an Anti-Racist Art & Design Field, The Antiracist Classroom
Selected Lectures, Panels, & Workshops
2024 Violent Intimacies in Multiracial Asian American Art, Literature, and Performance, American Studies Association
2023 Our Future Worlds, NAVEL, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Social Justice, Speculative Futures, & Science Fiction, Design For Social Innovation, ArtCenter Designmatters, Pasadena, CA
2022 Interdependence with Ourselves, Each Other, and Movements, The Collective Power of Communicators: Communications Institute, California Grantmakers
2022 Imagining Asian American Futures: Building Digital First Community with Art and Technology, Mission Cloud Services
2022 Media Based Organizing For Impact Campaigns, Asian American Documentary Network, Haverford A-Doc Impact Lab
2022 Art & Media for Movement Building, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies (GSF), Duke University
2021 Mixed Race Asian America: A Roundtable of Artists, Teachers, and Activists, Association for Asian American Studies
2021 Media for the Movement: Building Visual Narratives, Race, Solidarity, and the Carceral State, Harvard University
2021 Anti Asian Violence Beyond Hate Crimes and Policing, CUNY, AANAPISI Bridge Initiative, BMCC, Praxis Tank, The New School
2020 Stories That Move, Big City Forum, Big City Festival
2020 Building an Asian American Feminist Movement: Decolonization and Anti-Capitalism, 18 Million Rising + Asian American Feminist Collective, Building Asian American Feminisms
2020 Design Strategy for Social Movements, Design and Social Change, University of San Francisco Department of Art + Architecture
2020 how we fight white supremacy, the free black women’s library la + amwa, Reparations Club, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Building Community Power: Media Based Organizing as Resistance, Netroots Nation, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Artivism: Radical Art for Rapid Response Change, Allied Media Conference, Detroit, MI
2018 Smart Image and Social Impact, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2017 Designing Futures, Mattel Sponsored Transdisciplinary Studio, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Selected Collective Work & Community Engagement
2022 - present Collective Artist, Level Ground, Los Angeles, CA
2017 - 2020 Core Organizer, amwa / asian mamas working in the arts, Los Angeles, CA
2016 - 2018 Co-founder, Antiracist Classroom, Los Angeles, CA
Press
2023 “An Interview with Bianca Nozaki-Nasser,” Zeina Baltagi, Level Ground,
2021 “Best of Counter Spin 2021,” Janine Jackson, Counterspin, FAIR
2021 “A View from the Field: Fighting Disinformation,” Collette Watson, Free Press
2021 “How To Use Digital Spaces to Advocate for Others,” Isabeth Mendoza, KQED
2021 “If Police Made Asian Americans Safe, We’d Already Be Safe,” Janine Jackson, Counterspin, FAIR
2020 “The Decolonizers,” Jen Wang, Communication Arts
2018 “Poster Series Pays Tribute to African-American Artists, Educators and Authors,”Mike Winder, Art Center Dot Magazine,
2018 “Imagining the Dreamhouse for the Future,” Brenda Rees, Designmatters