ANNALISE JUNE KAMEGAWA is a Japanese-American writer and artist based in Milan, Italy. She was a writer-in-residence with Spike and Salzburger Kunstverein, an artist-in-residence at Fabrica Research Center, and a Fulbright Scholar in the creative arts at Politecnico di Milano.
She’s written reports and critiques for independent magazines across Europe. Most recently, she lived inside the Salzburger Kunstverein's space along the Salzach river as a writer-in-residence, collaborating with Spike to write a piece on the painter, Mikołaj Sobzcak. After living with his work for a month and a half, she believes in the occult more than ever before.
For Novembre, she interviewed Meriem Bennani’s composer on making music from flip flops for her Fondazione Prada show, My Best Family. At Lampoon, she spoke with production designers like Es Devlin and Judy Becker on world building. At the Milanese publication, she also explored the rise of Chinese-owned bars in Milan through a discussion with author Grazia Ting-Deng. For NR, she interviewed legendary theater director Romeo Castellucci on his classical education and taste in pop music. She also profiled architect Glenn Sestig and finally got to ask about Peter Mulier's home (once a backdrop for an Alaïa runway).
She’s also written commercial and SEO-driven content. On designboom’s branded team, she interviewed Marcel Wanders about his LAUFEN collaboration and Mathieu Lehanneur on being Maison&Objet’s Designer of the Year. She contributes to Readymag’s blog, helping demystify the design world. And she even snuck in a travel piece for Mandarin Oriental’s yearly publication, UNFOLD.