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about me




bio

Born in Kobe, Japan and now based in New York City, Nami is a musician, writer, and multimedia artist whose work considers relationships between the fluid circulation of stories, social imagination, and survival in contexts of asymmetrical power. She is interested in exploring the potential of storytelling to displace distortive visual frames and articulate alternative, multiplicitous narratives about self and place.

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Selected Projects & Press

2024 Documentary. Flood of Memory. Manzanar, CA. 

2024 International Exhibition. “Contemporary Landscape 2024” CICA Museum. Seoul, South Korea. 

2024 Solo Exhibition. 「灯台下暗し」 Kyoto, Japan.  [upcoming]

2024 Collaborative Multimedia Production. Zerospace. New York, New York.  [upcoming]

2023 Solo Exhibition. “they never told us these things,” Barnard College Movement Lab. New York, New York  

2023 azine: an Asian/American queer & women’s art collective. Issue 1. Self-published magazine.

2023 Bwog “Speaking The Unspeakable: Nami Weatherby’s “they never told us these things”” by Marino Bubba

2023 Columbia Spectator “CSER Student Advisory Board, AZINE hosts teach-in on center departmentalization” by Amanda Chapa

2022 Athena Showcase. Talk given.

2022 Barnard Movement Lab “Nami Weatherby

Selected Residencies & Grants

2024: Circle Fellowship. Future of Performance Institute (international consortium comprised of MIT, Oxford, Stanford, Royal Shakespeare Company, Watershed, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Music Center).

2023: Sony Music Spring 2023 Audition Jury Prize

2023: Fulbright Scholarship. The U.S. Fulbright Association


2023: Projects for Peace Grant. Middlebury College

2023: Phi Beta Kappa Inductee Barnard College, Columbia University

2023: Barnard College Exemplary Writing Archives Inductee for “Biting Down on a Double-Edged Promise of Liberation: Popular Jazz Performance & Embodied Inflections of Agency in the Allied Occupation of Japan 1945-53”

2022: Lucyle Hooke Travel Grant

2022: CJC For the Arts Grant

2022-2023: Movement Lab: Artist-in-Residence

2022: Athena Fellowship