Photo by Jessica Spears.
About Mitsuko Brooks
Mitsuko 三津子 Brooks (she/her) is a 1.5 generation artist & archivist of mixed settler Japanese and European descent currently living and working in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, New York). Mitsuko was born on Misawa Air Base (Japan).
She received her MFA in Painting & Drawing from UCLA, BFA from Cooper Union and MLIS & Certificate in Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials from Queens College (CUNY). Her work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Art Newspaper, Hyperallergic and others. She participated in residencies at The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s (LMCC) Arts Center, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) SHIFT and The Wassaic Project. Brooks received grants from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts and The Sally Van Der Lier Fellowship. She has exhibited at Sikkema Jenkins, MoMA PS1 and The Brattleboro Museum. Brooks' zines and mail art collages are in permanent collections at Smithsonian's Archive of American Art, Canada's Artexte Information Centre and others.
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