Keiko Narahashi Solo Show

The show’s title, How long have I been sleeping?, takes inspiration from a Japanese folktale of a fisherman who becomes enchanted by the underwater world after rescuing a sea turtle. After some time, feeling homesick, he returns to his home only to find that a hundred years have passed and nothing is as he left it.

This selection of Narahashi’s work speaks to her immigrant roots and considers questions of identity, displacement, dualities, and fractures, elaborating the sense of suspension between the dichotomies of her native and adopted land. Here we feel engulfed in a memory or a dream. There is a yearning inside each piece, a longing for both transformations and yet to find oneself at home. 

Keiko Narahashi was born in Tokyo, Japan, and currently lives and works in New York City. She received a BFA from Parsons School of Design, and an MFA in Painting from Bard College. Recent exhibitions include 106 Green (NYC), Jason McCoy Gallery (NYC), Carvalho Park (Brooklyn), Jack Hanley Gallery (NYC), Underdonk Gallery (Brooklyn), Bennington College Usdan Gallery, and Hofstra University Rosenberg Gallery (NY), among others. She was a recipient of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Grant (2005), and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting (2006). Her work has been written about in publications such as The New Yorker, Vogue, The Brooklyn Rail, and The New York Times. She was recently featured in New York Studio Conversations (Part II), edited by Stephanie Buhmann (2018, The Green Box, Berlin).