Selected Press Coverage

2022

The Stanford Daily: Komar, Shreya, “Beyond the Camps: Bay Area artists discuss art and WWII Japanese internment,” October 23, 2022,
Palo Alto, CA

Heather James Fine Art: “An Invisible State: Asian American Artists and Abstraction,” Palm Desert, CA

2021

Carmel Magazine: Yamada, David, “Shadows from Monterey’s Past: Shedding Light on the Silent Suffering of our Local Japanese Community,” Fall 2021, Carmel, CA

International Examiner: Kunimatsu, Susan, “Monterey Museum of Art presents the work of eight Sansei artists honoring family members’ memories of incarceration during WWII,” October 25, 2021,   Seattle, WA

The Rafu Shimpo: “Works by Sansei Artists Address American Concentration Camps,” Los Angeles Japanese Daily News, September 15, 2021, Los Angeles, CA

Monterey County Weekly: Popęda, Agata, “Reflecting on the long shadows of history,” September 12, 2021, Seaside, CA

Monterey County Weekly: Popęda, Agata, “Art Against the Shadows: Reflecting 75 years later, eight artists interpret the lasting legacy of Japanese internment,” September 9, 2021, Seaside, CA

Nichi Bei: Kashiwagi, Soji, “Sansei artists emerge from the Shadows from the Past,” February 4, 2021, San Francisco, CA

The Escalon Times: “Delta Exhibit Casts Light On Japanese American History,”     January 27, 2021, Escalon, CA

Nikkei West: Sammon, John, “Works of Sansei Artists recalling World War II Imprisonment of Japanese Americans on Display at the Monterey Museum of Art,”  January 21, 2021, San Jose, CA

The Rafu Shimpo: “Shadows from the Past: Sansei Artists and the American Concentration Camps,” Los Angeles Japanese Daily News,
January 21, 2021, Los Angeles, CA

2019

Forbes: Scott, Chad, “Contributions Of Japanese-American Artists Spotlighted At Heather James Fine Art, San Francisco,” May 19, 2019,
Jersey City, NJ

2018

Berkeley Library News: Hoban, Virgie, “Berkeley alum brings color, creativity, hair to C. V. Starr East Asian Library,” March 27, 2018,
Berkeley, CA

2015

MAKMA: “Masako Takahashi, ideas descabelladas,” May 6, 2015, Spain

2005

A.M. Queretaro: Editorial, “Busca La Liberacion Con El Arte,” April 21, 2005, Queretaro, Mexico

Artweek: Geer, Suvan “Quiet Time” at 18th Street Arts Center,” Palo Alto, CA

LA Weekly: Frank, Peter, “Pick of the Week,” April 4, 2005, Los Angeles, CA

2004

El Petit Journal: Editorial, “Masako Takahashi,” May 2004, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico

Imparcial: Editorial, “De Pelos,” Oaxaca, Mexico, April 12, 2004

2000

Los Angeles Magazine: Editorial, “Gallery: Masako Takahashi’s ‘Hair,” January 2000

Gallery Soolip Catalog: Gerstler, Amy, “Masako Takahashi,” West Hollywood, CA

1999

New Art Examiner: Cohn, Terri, “Needle Art,” September 1999

San Francisco Chronicle: McMannis, Sam, “Bedford’s Needlework Exhibit Pokes Holes in Gender Roles,” San Francisco, CA, June 11, 1999

Rafu Shimpo: Onishi, Ryoko, “Masako Takahashi,” Los Angeles, CA, May 22, 1999

Atencion San Miguel: Editorial, “Hair; Takahashi Exhibit,” San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, January 25, 1999

1997

Mexico City Times: Wright, Anthony, “Finding A Muse in San Miguel,” Mexico City, Mexico, January 3, 1997

1996

Atencion San Miguel: Failoni, Margaret, “Preview: Masako Takahashi to exhibit at Bellas Artes,” San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, December 30, 1996

1995

Rafu Shimpo Newspaper: Chung, Carol, “Art: Commemorating an Atomic Bombing,” Los Angeles, CA, July 19, 1995

1992

IKON #12/13 A Double Issue: Sherman, Susan, editor, “The Nineties, Moving Forward, Reaching Back/A Multicultural Odyssey,” New York, NY

1991

“The Ladders of Masako Takahashi,” Leffingwell, Edward, essay, August 1991

Houston Chronicle: Johnson, Patricia C., “Finding Common Ground,” May 12, 1991

The New York Times: Harrison, Helen A., “Examining Lineage as a Means of Enrichment,” March 3, 1991

Newsday: Moorman, Margaret, “Box Sculptures Offer History, Emotion,” February 7, 1991

BUZZ Magazine: White, Garrett, “Talking Art: Masako Takahashi,” December/January 1991

1989

“Ancestors Known and Unknown; Boxworks,” Lippard, Lucy/Byard, Carol, catalog

1988

Loyola Law School exhibition catalog: Ayres, Anne, “Taking Liberties,” Los Angeles, CA

1986

“A Women Of Color National Artists Book Project Traveling Exhibit,” catalog

1983

Buffalo Evening News: Bannon, Anthony, “Exhibit Offerings Run Quality Gamut,” May 27, 1983

“The 26th Annual Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art,” catalog

Women’s Wear Daily

1960

San Francisco Chronicle: Editorial, “Takahashi wins All-City High School Art Competition,” San Francisco, CA