Faculty
Noritaka Minami, M.F.A.
Title/s: Associate Professor/Director of Fine Arts
Office #: MUND 915A
Phone: 773.508.3875
Email: nminami@luc.edu
External Webpage: http://www.noritakaminami.com/#1
About
Noritaka Minami is an Associate Professor of Photography in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts. He teaches courses in both analog and digital photography. Before coming to Loyola University Chicago, Minami taught at Harvard University, Wellesley College, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, Irvine.
Minami maintains an active practice as an artist and uses photography to create visual investigations of architecture and built environments. He is a recipient of grants from organizations such as the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the Durfee Foundation. In 2015, he published a monograph titled “1972 – Nakagin Capsule Tower” (Kehrer Verlag), which received the 2015 Architectural Book Award from the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt, Germany. Exhibitions of his works have been held at UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Las Cienegas Projects, Center for Photography at Woodstock, and Griffin Museum of Photography.
Degrees
M.F.A., University of California, Irvine
B.A., University of California, Berkeley
