CV JAMIE NAKAGAWA BOLEY EDUCATION M.F.A. School of the Art Institute, Chicago IL (2019) M.A. Art Studio Art, California State University, Fresno CA (2017) B.A. in Art, California State University, Fresno CA (2014) PROFESSIONAL Appointments Assistant Professor, California State University of Fresno (2023-current) Lecturer, California State University of Fresno (2017-current) Adjunct Faculty, Clovis Community College, Clovis CA (2020-current) Gallery Coordinator-Curator, Clovis Community College, Clovis CA (2021-current) Graduate Teaching Professorship, California State University, Fresno CA (2015-2017) TEACHING Experience Department of Art, Design, and Art History, Fresno State (2015-17) Development of Artistic Department of Art, Design, and Art History, Fresno State (2015-17) Art Teacher (grades 6th -12th) (Instructor of Record) Visalia Christian School (2004- 2009) PRESENTATIONS “The Hundred Languages of Street Art” Presentation to Oregon Arts Education Collective, with Dr. Dominguez (2025) Our Changing Times, United States Academic Decathlon (2024) Drawing as Language, Workshop with discussion Reutergallery, Reuterstraße 82, Berlin (2024) Native Voices-Native American Graves Protection Repatriation Act, James Luna Laura Meyer Graduate Seminar Art Theory (Fall 2022) The EDWARD O LUND FOUNDATION, A Scotch Brew & Art Affair (Fall 2022) EXHIBITIONS SOLO EXHIBITS Come to the Water, Clovis Community College, CA October 2022 Standing In the Gap, Anita S. Wooten Gallery, Valencia College. Orlando, Florida (2020) Standing in the Gap of the Here and In-Between, California State University, Fresno, CA (2017) Standing in the Gap of the Here and In-Between, Arts Visalia Visual Arts Center, Visalia CA (2017) GROUP EXHIBITS Terrain Biennial 2025, Mother Art Re-Visited, Oct 1-November 2025 “Declaration of___’, “On the Line Messages of Care” and The Postcard Project” Mother Art Re-Visited, Contemporary exhibition explores democracy and freedom, Haggarty Museum of Art, Milwaukee University, January 23-May 16 2026 Faculty Exhibition, Department of Art, Design and Art History, California State University, Fresno, CA 2024 Venezia.contemporanea, Ghetto Venezia “At the Dinner Table”, MA; R Collective, Aug 2024 Rebellenwelle, Reutergallery Reuterstr. 82 Berlin, July 2024 The Oceans Between 7, Koc Gallery, June- July 2024 Native Voices, Clovis Community College, CA October 2022 Come to the Water, Clovis Community College, CA October 2022 Faculty Exhibition, Department of Art, Design and Art History, California State University, Fresno, CA 2022 Member’s Invitational, Fig Tree Gallery, Fresno, CA 2022 Thresholds in the Parameters of What it is to Be…Clovis Community College, September CA (2022) All Words Have Roots Here Art Space Gallery, Fresno City College, and online (2021) March 11 - April 30, 2021 Standing In the Gap, Anita S. Wooten Gallery, Valencia College. Orlando, Florida (2020) Responds to "On Tyranny", Mother Art Re-Visited Where was the show? Collective http://motherartrevisited.com/ (2020) Mother to Mother, virtually. Knots & Nodes, Chicago Art depart. (2020) Sullivan Galleries, School of the Arts Institute Chicago, IL (2019) 2019 Chicago Art Institute Low-Residency MFA Open Night Studio, Chicago IL (2019) William Raines Invitational, 2122 Corridor, Fresno CA (2019) Name of show, Calumet College of St Joseph Gallery, Whiting, IN (2019) Art Crush, SAIC Columbus Gallery, Chicago IL (2018) Where We Stand, CSU Fresno Graduate Gallery, Fresno CA (2018) Faculty Show. Department of Art, Design, and Art History. Conley Art Gallery, California State University, Fresno, CA 2022 Member’s Invitational, Fig Tree Gallery, Fresno, CA 2022 Faculty Show. Faculty Show. Department of Art, Design, and Art History. Fresno CA (2018) Water, M Street Graduate Art Complex, California State University Fresno CA (2018) Standing in the Gap of the Here and In-Between, California State University, Fresno, CA 2017 Open Night Studio, Low-Residency MFA Chicago Art Institute, Chicago IL 2017 Works of Jamie Nakagawa Boley, California State University, Office of the Chancellor, Long Beach CA 2017 Standing in the Gap of the Here and In-Between, Arts Visalia Visual Art Center, Visalia CA (2017) Content, Spring Graduate Exhibition, M Street Graduate Art Complex, CSU-Fresno, CA (2016) December Anamnesis, M Street Graduate Art Complex, CSU Fresno CA (2015) Identity, M Street Graduate Art Complex, CSU Fresno CA (2015) Graduate Exhibition, M Street Graduate Art Complex, CSU Fresno CA (2016) Graduate Exhibition Opening, M Street Graduate Art Complex, CSU Fresno CA (2015) Fabrics of My Mother 2122 Corridor, Fresno CA (2015) Spring CSUF Exhibition, M Street Graduate Art Complex, CSU Fresno CA 2015) Yulia Gasio & Jamie Nakagawa Boley, M Street Art Complex, CS Fresno CA (2014) Senior Show (juried) Department of Art, Design and Art History. CSU Fresno CA (2013) Student Exhibition (juried), Department of Art, Design, and Art History, CSU Fresno CA (2013) Student Exhibition (juried), Department of Art, Design, and Art History, CSU Fresno CA (2012) CURATORIAL EXHIBITS In the Parameters of What it is to be… Nancy Youdelman, Claudia Hart, and Pamela Sneed along with 40 Women artists. Conley and M Str. Graduate Galleries, California State University, Fresno (2023) Patricia Rain Gianneschi, Clovis Community College, CA (2023) Erin Schalk, Clovis Community College, CA (2023) 80’s Heavies, Clovis Community College, CA (January 2023) Native American Heritage Month: Native Voices Clovis Community College, CA (November 2022) Come to the Water: Jamie Nakagawa Boley Clovis Community College, CA (November 2022) What it is to Be… Clovis Community College, CA (September 2022) Stephanie Bradshaw: Looking Forward Looking Back Clovis Community College, CA (April/May 2022) Parting Gifts: Penny Cagney & Rachael Zur Clovis Community College, CA (March 2022) Do You Hear the Water’s Rushing? Pamela Sneed, Jahni Moore, Nick Potter, William Raines, Monica Guidry-Kelsie, Jason Bulluck, Yanique Norman A Sheltering in Space: Student Show Clovis Community College, CA (February 2022) James Luna Project M Street Graduate Gallery, California State University of Fresno (2016) Murals and COMMISSIONS Hospital Rock. National Parks Service, Sequoia National Park. Six paintings. (2017) KMPH Murals, Pappas Productions-Exterior/Interior Sub Station Main Street, Visalia CA. (2000-2001) Leon Smart, Mural and Paintings Franey Murals, Residential Exterior/Interior PUBLICATIONS CFA Chap book, Photo imagery 2022 Responds to "On Tyranny", Mother Art Re-Visited Collective http://motherartrevisited.com/ (2020) Mother Art Revisited Poetry Book, (April 20th-May 28th, 2020) Calendar, Tulare County Health and Human Services (2022) “The Skunk and the Stinkbug, Illustrations. Department of Modern and Classical Languages, California State University, Fresno THESIS AND DISSERTATION Dissertation: Standing in the Gap of the Here and In Between. School at the Art Institute of Chicago (2019) Master’s Thesis; Standing in the Gap of the Here and in Between. Department of Art and Design, CSU Fresno (2017) TEACHING EXPERIENCE California State University, Fresno Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Design, and Art History 2023–Present Upcoming Courses Spatial Foundations: 3D Design, Installation, and Time-Based Media (ART 14 – Three-Dimensional Design) Foundations studio integrating sculpture, installation, and time-based media. Redesigned the core 3D design curriculum to emphasize sensory awareness, ethical making, and reflective practice through the cycle Think → See → Think More → Make → Experience. (Developed 2025; implemented 2026.) Teaching Philosophy Summary I design 3Design foundation course to integrate technical, conceptual, and ethical approaches to three-dimensional design. Through observation, reflection, and material experimentation, students learn that every act of making is also an act of thinking and care. Courses Taught •Drawing •Two-Dimensional Design •Three-Dimensional Design •Painting •Ideas of Visual Culture: Art, Media, and Computers CURRICULAR DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHING INNOVATION •Re-envisioning of ART 14: Three-Dimensional Design into Spatial Foundations: 3D Design, Installation, and Time-Based Media Developed a new foundations curriculum integrating 3D design, installation, and time-based media through attention, care, and sensory practice. Sequence includes units on Form and Memory, Space and Site, Time and Interaction, and Reflection and Portfolio Review. •Sketchbook: The Thinking Studio Created a semester-long reflective practice linking observation, material experimentation, and concept development. Students use sketchbooks as processing spaces for turning perception into form. •Foundations Exhibition – “Learning to See” (Spring 2026) Designed and curated departmental exhibition featuring student work from Spatial Foundations, highlighting integration of sensory awareness and ethics of making. Service to Department •Foundations Curriculum Working Group — Lead faculty for ART 14 revision (Spatial Foundations), 2025–2026. •Co-organizer, Foundations Colloquium (Fall 2026): Art as Attention and Care.
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Meet Jamie Nakagawa Boley
Jamie Nakagawa Boley is a passionate advocate for community engagement and innovation. With a diverse background, Jamie brings unique perspectives to every project, fostering collaboration and creativity.
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My work engages waterways as sites of Indigenous memory, intergenerational care, and survival.
Jamie Nakagawa Boley
Painting, installation, and time-based work engaging waterways as sites of memory, relation, and intergenerational care.
PROCESS
My work is grounded in an investigative journey through land and waterways, where crossing rivers becomes a method of inquiry. I move through specific sites, seeking to understand the histories that exist alongside those that were told—listening to what the land holds and what water carries forward.
This process unfolds through observation, movement, and return. I document these encounters through notes, sketches, and material collection, allowing the work to emerge over time as a record of presence and relation.
MATERIALS
I work across painting, drawing, video, and time-based installation, incorporating plant materials and found elements connected to specific places. Oil, graphite, and layered mark-making function as both image and trace—holding gestures of movement, memory, and accumulation.
Materials are chosen for their relationship to land and their ability to carry time. Each surface becomes a site where physical and lived experience are embedded and held.
MEANING
This work engages waterways as sites of Indigenous memory, intergenerational care, and survival. Rivers and crossings become markers of movement, displacement, and persistence—holding histories that remain present within the land.
Through these works, I consider what it means to stand in the gap: to hold space for others, to carry forward knowledge, and to remain in relation across generations. The work creates a space where past and present coexist, and where what has been hidden continues to surface.