Academic Associate
Eve Loh-Kazuhara is a scholar of Japanese visual cultures, specifically Japanese painting and nihonga (Japanese-style painting).
Her research and writing pursues decentering and decolonizing approaches to Japanese art history with a special focus on critical plant studies within the broader field of Plant Humanities.
She is currently completing a book manuscript on Postwar Japanese Painting: Tanaka Isson and Nihonga Landscapes from Amami Ōshima.
Eve has taught art history and Japanese visual cultures at the National University of Singapore. Previously, she worked in museum interpretation as a member of the inaugural team that launched the opening of the National Gallery Singapore. She still consults for museums and projects in interpretation, exhibition development and scripting. Eve is currently based in Singapore and teaches at the University of the Arts Singapore.
For more information, see: https://evelohkazuhara.info/
Selected Publications
- “Beauty in Shadows: Aesthetics in Tanaka Isson’s Landscapes from the Southern Islands”, Handbook of Japanese Aesthetics, Routledge. (forthcoming, 2026)
- “Nihonga from the Periphery: Tanaka Isson’s Landscape Paintings of Amami Ōshima”, Andon: the Society of Japanese Art, (Issue 121, Spring 2026)
- “Peripheries of the Art World: Marginality to Mania as seen through Tanaka Isson’s Landscapes of Amami Ōshima”, South Pacific Studies, 46 no.2 (2026):23–33.
- “The Amami Islands as Archipelagic Vantage Point”, Evangelia Papousaki and Eve Loh-Kazuhara, South Pacific Studies, 46 no.2 (2026).
- “Kawabata Ryūshi”, in Grove Art Online, Dictionary of Art, Oxford University Press, (2025)
- “Illustrated scroll from Tale of Genji”, Smarthistory, 2023. DOI: https://smarthistory.org/illustrated-scroll-tale-of-genji/
- “Higashiyama Kaii: The Gift of Landscapes”, The Gift: Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories. Singapore Art Museum, 2022.
- “Ruptures and Continuity in Pan-Asianism: New Insights into India-Japan Artistic Exchanges in the first half of the Twentieth Century”, India-Japan Narratives: Lesser-known Historical and Cultural Interactions. Sushila Narashimhan, ed. Mombusho Scholars Association of India, 2020.