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Akemi Ohira is an Associate Professor in the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia, where she has been a faculty member since 1993. Her teaching focuses on printmaking at introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels, including supervision of the Distinguished Majors Program.
She holds an M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University (1992) and a B.F.A. from Cornell University. Her artistic practice centers on printmaking disciplines such as intaglio and mezzotint, aiming to challenge viewer perceptions and deconstruct stereotypes through visual ambiguity and reconstruction of form.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and Japan. Through her art, she invites audiences to interpret pieces based on personal memory and experience, using titles as provocations to expand visual expectations.
Akemi Ohira is actively engaged in her artistic and academic roles, with no indication of retirement or emeritus status. She maintains both an institutional and personal email for contact.
