Naomi Nadreau lives and works in New York City, born in Los Angeles, California. They received their MFA from University of California, San Diego and BA from California State University, Northridge.


Naomi creates sculptures from architectural and natural materials from ceramics, metal, dirt, plants, and concrete. These works pay homage to the concept of estrangement in science fiction and the practice of acupuncture.

Estrangement is part of their worldbuilding to make the familiar, unfamiliar and the unfamiliar, familiar. They use acupuncture meridians as a system used to connect invisible pathways and our physical surroundings to create questions of the body, objects, and of place. Slipping between Asian and Black Diasporic systems, they investigate the representation of these identities in an otherworldly future through the shaping of ancient health practices and architectural environments. Includes reflecting on the experience of being in a fluctuating state of in-between and nowhere.





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