Tomie Arai

Artist

New York, NY

Tomie Arai is a visual artist who collaborates with community residents, students, activists, and historians to create art in public spaces. She is a recent recipient of an San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) commission to create artwork for the new Central Subway Station in San Francisco Chinatown. In 2015 she will be co-teaching a course for artist educators at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.