Eimi TAGORE

Profile

Born in 1991 in United States . Lives and works in San Francisco and New York. Graduated with a BFA in Art & Design from California Polytechnic State University in 2014, and an MA in Visual Culture from Lund University in 2018. Currently a PhD Candidate in East Asian Studies at New York University. 

Eimi Tagore is an independent curator and PhD candidate in East Asian Studies at New York University. Her research focuses on contemporary transpacific art engaging with colonial history, memory, and politics. 


Recent exhibitions and activities
2025 “De la Sombra, Un Jardín; Melissa Godoy Nieto,”  Maison Mono, New York
2024 “Coastalvision New York, ARDNEKS,” Maison Mono, New York
2024 “Un / Weaving: Haji Oh,” Alison Bradley Projects, New York
2023 “KANTEN: The Limits of History,” apexart, New York
2023 “Floating Monuments: Motoyuki Shitamichi,” Alison Bradley Projects, New York

Grants
2025 Patricia Dunn Lehrman Fellowship, NYU GSAS (Awarded 2024)
2024 Ishibashi Foundation / Japan Foundation Fellowship for Research on Japanese Art
2023 Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation Curatorial Fellowship

About curation

As a curator, I am deeply interested in how artists today address the political and historical entanglements of imperialism in the Pacific.
Taking a transpacific position, my dissertation maps the rise of contemporary artists exploring the confluence between US and Japanese militarism
in the region, considering artistic modes of being in common that circumvent national frameworks.
I aim to intervene in the fields of Art History and Asian Studies by exploring the interconnectedness of art practices in Japan, the US, Okinawa, Hawai’i, Jeju, Taiwan, and Guam. This project is initiated through curatorial activism, a commitment to making accessible the visual culture “in,
of and from the margins” to support the notion of deterritorialized forms of collectivity.