Naoko Wowsugi
Wowsugi was born and raised in Japan.  She is of South Korean descent. Her Korean name is Sang Ja Chun. When she was small, she dealt with social alienation, caused by being mixed-race Korean and Japanese.  Wowsugi studied in the Osaka University of Arts while she was in Japan.  She later moved to the United States. She graduated from the Kansas Art Institute. She graduated with a BFA from both schools. “As an artist, I emigrated from another country to America,” says Wowsugi. “Art making always connects people and I learn about the community." She then started expressing "contemporary social community" through art at Rockville, a city near Washington DC. Wowsugi got her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University.