Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow 2025-2026
PhD, National University of Singapore, 2022
Eve Loh-Kazuhara is a scholar of Japanese art history, specifically nihonga (Japanese-style painting) and Japanese painting history. Eve’s research focuses on the history and historiography of nihonga in the postwar and contemporary periods, examining peripheral and regional perspectives in Japanese art, as well as dominant narratives and processes of marginalization. Previously, Eve taught at the National University of Singapore and the University of the Arts, Singapore and worked in museum interpretation at the National Gallery, Singapore.
At the Sainsbury Institute, she will work on revising her doctoral dissertation into a book manuscript, provisionally titled, Postwar Japanese Painting: Tanaka Isson’s Nihonga Landscapes from Amami Ōshima. Additionally, Eve will be writing a journal article and annotated bibliography on Nihonga and conference papers on themes of Liminality and late style in the paintings of Tanaka Isson.
Read more about Eve’s research in her Research Spotlight article for our monthly ebulletin here.