Nikkei Voice
Kelly Fleck. “Kimiko’s Pearl unites three Nikkei artists to tell Japanese Canadian story through ballet.” Nikkei Voice, June 13, 2024.
Border Crossings
Renata Azevedo Moreira. “Emma Nishimura.” Border Crossings, no. 163 (January 2024): 142-143.
Photo credit: Christine Lim
Platemark Podcast
Platemark, a podcast about art, ideas, prints, and printmaking. Season 3, episode 27: The Print Ecosystem: Emma Nishimura
Listen to my conversation with host Ann Shafer.
CBC Arts
Documentary by Alice Shin. “CBC Arts: Emma Nishimura.” 2020.
CBC Radio
CBC radio: The Sunday Edition. “How Japanese-Canadian Emma Nishimura shaped her family’s WW II internment into art.” Interview by Kevin Sylvester. November 3, 2019.
Listen to the interview or read a condensed version of the interview and view images here.
Hyperallergic
Billy Anania. “Fragile Borders and Rituals of Remembrance.” Hyperallergic, October 28, 2019.
Photo credit: Photo courtesy Elisabeth Berezansky for IPCNY.
Border Crossings
“Etching the Language of History.” Border Crossings, no. 149 (March 2019): 18.
Photo credit: Courtesy of the ROM / Brian Boyle
NOW
Samantha Edwards. “Japanese Canadian artists grapple with the lasting effects of the internment.” NOW, February 27, 2019.
Photo credit: Courtesy of the ROM / Brian Boyle
Hyperallergic
Brigit Katz. “Contemporary Artists Reflect on Japanese Internment.” Hyperallergic, February 21, 2019.
The Globe and Mail
Kate Taylor. “At the ROM, haunting Japanese Canadian history hides in plain sight.” The Globe and Mail, February 9, 2019.
Photo credit: M. Bernards
Nikkei Voice
Kelly Fleck. “Being Japanese Canadian: New installation shares multi-generational responses to internment at the ROM.” Nikkei Voice, February, 2019.
Photo credit: M. Bernards
Queen Sonja Print Award
Winner of the Queen Sonja Print Award 2018. Juried by Tauba Auerbach, Lars Nittve, and Mark Nash
Learn more about the Queen Sonja Print Award here. Photo credit: Sven Gj. Gjeruldsen, The Royal Court Norway
The Art Newspaper
Christian House. “By royal command: how Queen Sonja of Norway is raising the profile of Printmaking.” The Art Newspaper, November 16, 2018.
Photo credit: Sven Gj. Gjeruldsen, The Royal Court Norway
Art in Print
Winner of the Prix de Print for July - August 2018. Juried by Renée Bott.
Read the full article here: Renee Bott. “Prix de Print No.30: An Archive of Rememory by Emma Nishimura.” Art in Print 8, no. 2 (July – August 2018): 40-41.
CBC Radio
CBC Radio Specials: Asian or Canadian? Life between cultures. Interview by Elaine Chau. June 29, 2018.
Read a condensed version of the interview and view images here.
The Rusty Toque
Featured in The Rusty Toque. Issue 12, Visual Art, June 30, 2017.
Lincoln Journal Star
L. Kent Wolgamott, “Seven printmakers give maps artistic spins,” Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, NE, April 30, 2017.
Review of Unfolding the Map, Constellation Studios, Lincoln, NE.
Discover Nikkei
Norm Masaji Ibuki, “Toronto Artist Emma Nishimura: Mapping Out Nikkei Identity,” Discover Nikkei: Canadian Nikkei Series, April 7, 2015.
Living Toronto
Miria Ioannou, “Portraits: A Young Artist,” Living Toronto (blog). September 1, 2014.
Fibre Focus Magazine
Gareth Bate, “Ten Up and Coming Canadian Fibre Artists to Watch: Part 2,” Fibre Focus Magazine, April 2012.
Lincoln Journal Star
Cindy Lange-Kubick, “As light as air and as heavy as history,” Journal Star, Lincoln, NE, March 24, 2011.
The Hamilton Spectator
Regina Haggo, “Tiny patterns inspired exquisite images,” The Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton, ON, March 29, 2010.
Review of Pattern and Form: Emma Nishimura and Arounna Khounnoraj, Centre 3, Hamilton, ON.