Ricardo Nagaoka

Ricardo Nagaoka is an artist born and raised in Paraguay and a grandson of Japanese immigrants. He immigrated to Canada with his family during his teenage years, and eventually landed in the U.S to study at the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA in Photography). He currently lives and works in Portland, OR.

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Ricardo’s work seeks to explore our constructs and ideas of home, selfhood, and masculinity. He finds an urgency in questioning the tendency to frame identities through their immediate surfaces, where the complexity of our conditions is often pushed aside for the status quo.

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Ricardo has had his work published by The New York Times, M le Monde, The British Journal of Photography, and has been commissioned by The New York Times,

The New Yorker, TIME, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Google, and Nike, among others. He can be reached at [email protected]