Sunday, Jul 14, 2024
Conversation: All Fishermen are Liars
About
Join us for a dynamic conversation between the creator of this year's Public Art Commission, Moko Fukuyama, and Fishers Island resident and fisherman, Tommy Doyen. Moderated by Lighthouse Works Executive Director, Nate Malinowski this talk will extend the presentation of the this year's public art commission, See the Forest For the Sea, by exploring the real-world manifestations of the sculptures metaphorical devices, "the tackle box", "the lure" and "the line", and the changing environmental context that the fisherman and artist both inhabit on the island.
Artist
Bio
Moko Fukuyama is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist whose diverse practice spans sculpture, filmmaking, performance, and installation. She immigrated to the United States from Japan in her early twenties and has pursued her version of the American Dream ever since. While living in locales ranging from Ames, Iowa to Memphis, Tennessee to Boston, Massachusetts to New York City, she has closely observed nuanced versions of modern political and cultural factions in the United States. Art has become a means for her to interpret and contend with social challenges that impinge on her life, and the American way of life at large.
Fukuyama’s projects have been supported by prominent non-profit institutions, such as Lighthouse Works, Recess, The Shed, Socrates Sculpture Park, Franconia Sculpture Park, River Valley Arts Collective, Al Held Foundation, LongHouse Reserve, Smack Mellon, and The Kitchen. Her work has been recognized with grants from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Jerome Foundation. Fukuyama has held residencies at MacDowell, Stoneleaf Retreat, Art Omi, and Yaddo. From 2020 to 2022, Fukuyama participated in the Ground Floor Program at the International Studio & Curatorial Program where she was celebrated as their studio honoree. In 2022, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and she recently received the 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship for her interdisciplinary work. Currently, she is creating a large-scale sculpture that will debut next month at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. In 2025, she will collaborate with the Public Art Fund to develop a public artwork to be installed at Rockaway Beach.
