Artist

Janice Nakashima

Selected Exhibitions

2026 "Art and Politics," Site: Brooklyn Gallery (online), Far from Home, installation, Guusje Sanders, juror
2026 "Blue," Site: Brooklyn Gallery (online), January 31–February 28, 2026 — Evening and Shift
2026 "the Edge of Possible," Gallery Route One, January 24–February 28, 2026 — Sorrowflow
2026 "wonder, wander," San Ramon Gallery — public art, January 5–February 27, 10 pieces from various series
2025 The 24th International Art Exchange Exhibition: the USA Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, June 5–12. Curator: Julienne Johnson — Intermezzo and Sorrowflow
2024 "Reclaimed/Repurposed," GearBox Gallery, Oakland, CA, September 11–October 12. Juror: Nancy Toomey — Seeking Solace
2024 "Tree Stories," Sasse Museum of Art
2024 "Ink & Clay 46," W. Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, Pomona, CA, August 26–November 14. Jurors: Kim Abeles, Barbara Thomason, Alison Ragguette — Nocturne 1
2024 "19th National Juried Exhibition," Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA, August 2–September 1. Juror: Kelly Lindner.
Jurors Award — Best in Exhibit: The Trouble with Cages & The Dilemma of UNRWA
2024 "Women Artists Making Their Mark 2024" (online), July 23–October 1. Jurors: Donna Seager and Priscilla Otani — Seeking Solace
2024 Sixth Online Juried Exhibition, The Idaherma Museum of Art Foundation, Inc., Princeton, NJ (online). Juror: Shaun Daley — Nocturne 2 and Intermezzo, 2nd place award
2024 "Soliloquy," The Scholart Selection, Bridge Arts Foundation, San Gabriel, CA, July 13–August 17. Jurors: Xin Song and Charles Christopher Hill — Chorale 1
2023 Solo — "Seeking Solace," Kahilu Galleries, Kamuela/Waimea, HI, November 9–January 7, 2024. Paintings from OPUS and Seeking Solace 3-d pieces
2022 Long Beach Arts Foundation 24th Annual Works on Paper National Juried Exhibition, April 16–May 30. Juror: Esther Adler (MOMA) — Nocturne 2
2022 Artspace 1616, January, Sacramento, CA. Curator: Mima Begovic — installation, Spill
2022 Axis Gallery (online), July — "Axis Gallery, Past, Present, and Future"
2019 Arts Benicia, "Uplift" Celebrating the Sierra Nevada, October 12–November 3, Benicia, CA — Boulder, Reflected Light
2019 Artspace 1616, solo, July–August, "Navigations," Sacramento, CA
2019 Yosemite Renaissance 34, February 23–November 17, YNP Museum
2019 West Coast Biennial, Turtle Bay Art Museum, January 25–April 28, Redding, CA
2019 Sebastopol Center for the Arts, "Not Just Landscapes," February 22–March 31
2019 Ella K. McClatchy Library Gallery, solo, January 19–March 9, Sacramento, CA
2018 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, February 3–March 10. Juror: Peter Frank
2018 Gallery Route 1, "Road Maps," February 2–25. Juror: Dewitt Cheng
2018 Merced College, two-person exhibit with Sandra Beard, January 17–February 8
2017 Solo — "OPUS," Axis Gallery, November 3–26
2017 "PaperWest," Gittins Gallery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, November 6–30
2017 "Mygration," Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, November 3–25
2017 "Light Out of Darkness," Beatnik Studios, October
2017 "Blue," Sebastopol Center for the Arts, June 23–July 27
2017 "Shifting Movements: Art Inspired by the Life & Activism of Yuri Kochiyama," SOMArts Cultural Center, SF, May 4–25 — Collateral Debris, installation
2016 Flat file exhibit, September–October, Axis Gallery
2016 "Map it Out," Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, August 26–October 1 — Trails, High Country
2016 "Slice," Pence Gallery, Davis, CA, July 8–August 1
2016 Solo — "Breathwork," Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA, March 4–27
2015 "New Directions '15," Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. Juror: Janet Bishop, SFMOMA, September 26–October 31
2015 "Black & White," BWAC, Brooklyn, NY, August 1–23. Juror: Christiane Paul — Rimfire 2
2015 James Kaneko Gallery, American River College, March 16–April 16
2015 East Room, Axis Gallery, March 6–April 26
2014 "First Look," Axis Gallery, Verge Center for the Arts — Rhyme for Rembrandt, June 5–29
2014 Solo — "rocks, paper, scissors," Axis Gallery, April 4–27
2013–14 "Odd Numbers," Axis Gallery, December 2013–January 2014
2013 Solo — "watercolors," Sacramento Poetry Center, Sacramento, CA, April 14–June 2
2013 Invitational — New Arts Program, "Small Works Annual," Kutztown, PA
2012 Crocker-Kingsley Exhibit, Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA, November 17–January 5, 2013. Juror: David Pagel — installation of Far from Home
2012 "Side by Side," Axis Gallery, Sacramento, December 1–January 27, 2013
2012 Solo — "Verses and Variations," Axis Gallery, Sacramento, June 2012
2012 Invitational — New Arts Program, "Small Works Annual," Kutztown, PA
2011 Solo — Stanford Faculty Club, Stanford, CA, November 20, 2011–January 14, 2012 — forest series
2011 "BIG" show, Axis Gallery, December 1, 2011–January 29, 2012
2011 Verge Center for the Arts, October 6–November 13, Sacramento, CA
2011 Two-person show — "Convergence, Divergence," Rasmussen Gallery, PUC, Angwin, October 1–30
2011 "Collective Reflections II," Contemporary Asian Art C Gallery, August 4–14, Seattle, WA
2011 Sacramento Temporary Contemporary, "Into the Forest," April 7–May 6, Sacramento, CA
2011 "Wrinkle," Axis Gallery, January, Sacramento, CA
2010 Solo — "forest," Axis Gallery, November 6–28, Sacramento, CA
2010 "for Roland," September, Bunny Gunner Art Services, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Creative Merger II: Justice and Peace, Sacramento County Public Law Library, June–September
2010 Invitational, JFKU Arts & Consciousness Gallery 15th Anniversary Exhibition WEAD, Berkeley, May–June
2010 "Axis Tilt," February 6–28, Sacramento, CA

Awards and Publications

2025 Monochromica, Issue 006 — Nocturne 1
2025 Homiens Prize, promoted artist — Alala
2024 Sasse Museum publication of "Tree Stories"
2024 Jurors Award — Best in Show, Axis Gallery. Juror: Kelly Lindner — The Trouble with Cages and The Dilemma of UNRWA
2024 Idaherma Museum of Art Foundation, 2nd place — Intermezzo
2018 Spotlight Magazine, March 12
2017 Circle Quarterly Art Review, Fall issue — Waltz
2016 Artists to Look Out For VIII, Starry Night Programs
2016 Sacramento News and Review, March
2012 Studio Visit, Volume 18
2011 Sacramento News and Review, September
2009 Square Cylinder, review by David Roth
2008 Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Juror's Award — Best in Show. Juror: Alison Bing — Far from Home
2007 Critic's Pick, Sacramento Bee, Victoria Dalkey
2005 Sacramento Art in Public Places commission — Sacramento City Hall
2004 Sacramento News and Review, Pick of the Week
2004 Artweek article, Debra Koppman, July–August issue
2002 Sacramento Art in Public Places commission — North Natomas Permit Center, 2101 Arena Blvd., Sacramento
2002 Artist in Residence, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Renaissance, Yosemite, CA
2002 Merit Award — California Works Exhibit, Cal Expo, Sacramento, CA
1996 Award of Excellence — "California Works," Sacramento, CA
1996 1st Place, watercolor — 66th Annual Statewide Exhibition, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
1995 Special Merit Award — The Frances M. Halford Memorial Award, Biennial Statewide Watercolor Competition and Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1995 3rd Place — 30th Annual Exhibition, Fine Arts Institute, San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, CA
1994 Bronze Award — California Discovery Award, Sacramento, CA
1993 Bronze Award — California Discovery Award, Sacramento, CA

Art in Institutions

UC Davis Telehealth Building, Stockton Blvd., Sacramento — Earth 1, 2, 3
UC Davis Medical Center Clinical Office — Lyell Fork, diptych
UC Davis Medical Building, new wing — Streams, 5 Variations, and others
UC Davis Telemedicine Building — Play 1, 2, 3, colored paper, 3-d
Rogue Community College — Jazz, pencil on paper
Sacramento County Primary Health Care Center — 3 pieces from Weatherworks, pencil on paper
City of Sacramento, Permit Center — Where the Light Is, oil on canvas
Sacramento City Hall — Sky, River, Trees, drawing