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) including FAL's Tumblr and Instagram accounts. Naoe is involved with the Green Team 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 Japanese American and a 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 is a faculty in MFA program at Lesley University, and she is Five Colleges Studio Lecturer at Smith College this fall. She is teaching "Socio-ecological relationships and decolonization in studio." 

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 also dances and meditates together with her 87-year-old parents 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 artist website is www.naoesuzuki.com

You can listen to her interview on BioBAT Art Space's podcast series: WATER STORIES. What is your relationship with water?