Roger Shimomura Receives United States Artists Fellowship

Flomenhaft Gallery today announced that gallery artist Roger Shimomura who has been awarded a United States Artists Fellowship. The award serves as a lifetime achievement of sorts, as winners are honored not for a recent piece or a specific exhibit, but rather work from throughout their career. Read the article here.

The award announcement comes shortly after Shimomura was mentioned in the ARTnews review (December Issue) of National Portrait Gallery's exhibition Asian American Portraits of Encounter. The article heralds Shimormura's five works as the exhibition's "showstoppers."