About Me

Born in Sendai, Japan, BETTY NOBUE KANO is a painter, curator and lecturer. After earning her M.F.A. in painting from U.C. Berkeley, she has exhibited her work in nearly 200 regional, national and international gallery and museum exhibitions including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Triton Museum of Art, San Jose; Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico, and Havana Bienal, Cuba. Betty Kano has curated more than 15 exhibits, most as Executive Director of Pro Arts, a nonprofit gallery in Oakland, CA and also for National Japanese Historical Society. She is a Lecturer at San Francisco State University and New College of California. Betty Kano’s artwork is included in: This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherie L. Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldua; Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas by Phoebe Farris; Black Velvet, the Art We Love to Hate by Jennifer Heath; Mixed Blessings by Lucy Lippard. She is co-founder of Art Against Apartheid, Asian American Women Artists Association and Women of Color Camp and is recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Residency Fellowship in the Humanities and the "Sisters of Fire" award by Women of Color Resource Center. http://www.apiculturalcenter.org/events/2005/fullcircle/KanoGallery.html
She can be reached at bettykano@gmail.com