Naoe Suzuki

Naoe Suzuki (she/her) works as an Administrative Coordinator for the Fine Arts Library. She supports library’s daily operations and manages many aspects of publicity efforts for the Fine Arts Library (FAL). Naoe works as a co-organizer for the FAL's Tumblr and Instagram accounts. She is a Green Team member at Harvard. Upon arriving at the Fine Arts Library in 2016, she has previously worked as the Operations Coordinator at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public School and as the Program Administrator for the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts at Brandeis University.

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Naoe is a Japanese American visual artist. She has received grants and awards including grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist’s Grants (2022, 2006 & 2001,) and Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2013 & 2004.) She has been awarded multiple artist residency fellowships including the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, the Blue Mountain Center, MacDowell, Jentel, Millay Colony for the Arts, and Tokyo Wonder Site Residency in Japan. From 2016 to 2017, she was appointed as the Artist-in-Residence at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Naoe taught Five Colleges Advanced Studio Seminar at Smith College in the fall of 2024. Naoe is one of the installation artists for MassQ Ball 2025: Color at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

Naoe received MFA in Studio for Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 1997, and BA in Art from Bridgewater State University with double minors in Dance and Women's Studies in 1992. She continues to dance to this day in her spare time. She dances and meditates together with her 89-year-old mother on Zoom which she started during the pandemic. She enjoys morning walk by Quinobequin (now known as Charles River) and swimming in Walden Pond during the summer.

Her website is www.naoesuzuki.com