Brent Nakamoto is a Queer, Japanese-American, Buddhist artist, with a background in painting and drawing, printmaking, photography, and book arts. He received his BA in Art from UC Santa Barbara in 2012 and MFA in Visual Arts from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis in 2018. He currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA, where he teaches in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art and is the Program and Marketing Coordinator for Brew House Association, where he manages the Distillery Emerging Artist Residency. He has also taught at Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media, and the Community College of Allegheny County. He has shown work nationally and internationally, including in California, Saint Louis, New York, Pittsburgh, and Kolkata, India. His work is included in the University of Maryland Art Gallery permanent collection.

Koan: Look at plain silk, hold uncarved wood, 2016. Monoprint, Letterpress, 11 x 15 in.

House of the Creative, (from the I Ching series of 16 unique prints), 2016. Monoprint, Woodblock, 11 x 15 in.

Heart Sutra Dream Drawing, 2021. Screenprint on Mulberry, 10 x 8 in.