STAN TOMITA
Lecturer

Lecturer Stan Tomita has taught at the University Of Hawai'i since 1988, Honolulu Community College from 1980-88, and the University Of California At Berkeley in 1979. Tomita received his BFA from the University Of Hawai'i in 1972 and has studied with Walter Chappell and Paul Caponigro. He has exhibited at Gallery Wide in Tokyo, Gallery Picture in Osaka, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Art in General and CEPA Gallery in New York, Focus Gallery in San Francisco, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu and the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Artist in Residence include the Iffley Seminar at Oxford, England. His work involve the changing scape of the people and land of Hawai'i. Tomita also collaborates with Karen Kosasa (Assistant Professor of American Studies, UHM) a fellow third generation Japanese settler to Hawai'i. Their installations and site specific projects reflect upon the ways settlers' everyday activities contribute to the problem and invisibility of colonialism in Hawai'i.