Biography

Takenaga, a third-generation Japanese-American, was born in North Platte, Nebraska. She attended the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she earned both a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. with an emphasis in printmaking. Since 1985 she has taught art at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions including at the Asia Society, New York; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; the Brattleboro Art Museum, Brattleboro, Vermont; the Colorado University Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder; the College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio; Art In General, New York; Marymount Manhattan College, New York; Mabel Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts; and the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Her work is featured in the permanent collections of The Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder; The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; the Federal Reserve Collection, Washington, D.C.; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles; The Hallmark Fine Arts Program, Kansas City, Missouri; The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia; and the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Takenaga lives and works in Williamstown, Massachusetts and New York.

This would be the first work by Takenaga to enter SJMA’s permanent collection. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2011)

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