T. Kevin Sayama
Associate Partner

T. Kevin Sayama is a senior designer at C&G Partners, where he works on museum and exhibition projects.

Trained as an architect, Kevin has been involved in the design of major exhibitions throughout the United States for nearly a decade. He is presently serving as senior designer and project manager for new exhibits the firm is planning at the Griffith Planetarium in Los Angeles, California & a series of interpretive stations for the Federal Reserve Bank of AtlantaÕs Birmingham branch.

Before joining the firm in 2000, Kevin worked as an exhibition designer and project manager at Ralph Appelbaum Associates. He designed the "What Price Freedom" and "Global Library" temporary exhibitions at The New York Public Library and "AmericaÕs Concentration Camps," a temporary exhibition at The Japanese American National Museum that was later converted into a traveling show and featured at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. He also designed "Fighting for Tomorrow," a temporary exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum that focused on Japanese American servicemen during World War II. Kevin managed the architectural integration and exhibition design for the Art and History and Steuben galleries at the new Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York. He also participated in the design of the Corning MuseumÕs new Glass Innovation Center and Steuben Gallery. He was a project manager and designer for the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City.

Additional work includes schematic planning and design of permanent exhibitions at FIRST Place in Manchester, New Hampshire, the Utah Museum of Natural History, the Museum of the City of New York, the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey, and the Hall of Planet Earth and the Rose Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.

Kevin was born in Los Angeles and earned his BachelorÕs degree in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983. In 1988 he received a Master of Architecture from Berkeley. He has been a registered architect in California since 1990. He worked with a number of California architects on renovation and restoration projects as well as new construction before moving to New York City in 1994.