Represented▼
Agan Harahap
AIDA Makoto
AKAMATSU Nelo
Albert Yonathan Setyawan
AMANO Yoshitaka
AOYAMA Satoru
Ari Bayuaji
Ashley YK Yeo
Budi Agung Kuswara
DU Kun
EGUCHI Ayane
Entang Wiharso
Gilang Fradika
Heri Dono
HORI Kosai
I Made Djirna
IKEDA Manabu
indieguerillas
Iwan Effendi
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
KANEKO Tomiyuki
KARIYA Hiroshi
Ken + Julia YONETANI
KONDOH Akino
KUMAZAWA Mikiko
MAJIMA Naoko
MATSUKAGE
MIYANAGA Aiko
MIZUNO Rina
MORI Junichi
Namonaki Sanemasa
Nasirun
O JUN
OGINO Yuna
OKADA Hiroko
OKAMOTO Ellie
SHINTSUBO Kenshu
SONE Yutaka
TANADA Koji
TSUTSUI Shinsuke
USAMI Masahiro
Wianta, Made
YAMAGUCHI Ai
YAMAGUCHI Akira
YAMAMOTO Masao
YAMAMOTO Ryuki
MIYANAGA Aiko
Miyanaga is known for her installation using materials such as salt, and especially objects made with naphthalene into the shape of daily commodities. She visualizes time by tracing signs of it’s presence.
2008 MFA, master’s degree program in Intermedia Art, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1999 BFA, Sculptuer Course, Depertment of Fine Art, Faculity of Art, Kyoto University of Art and Design
1974 Born in Kyoto, Japan
Solo Exhibitions
2023
“MIYANAGA Aiko -Wrapping a verse”, Toyama Glass Art Museum
“MIYANAGA Aiko”, imura art gallery, Kyoto
“MIYANAGA Aiko-Read the Sea”, ZENBI (Kagizen Art Museum), Kyoto
2022
“vallery of sleeping sea”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020
“layers of echoing bubbles“, Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2020 Special Exhibition, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan
2019
“Rowing Style : landscapes of the beginning“, NADiff Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“MIYANAGA Aiko : Rowing Style“, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
2018
“life“, MIZUMA ART GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2017
“between waxing and waning“, Ohara Museum of Art, Yurinso, Okayama, Japan
2015
“reading room“, ART FAIR TOKYO 2015, Tokyo, Japan
2014
“Strata: Origins“, White Rainbow, London, UK
“Strata: slumbering on the shore“, Liverpool Central Library, UK
“Miyanaga Aiko’s Tearoom: soramimimisora (rain palace)“, Hagi Uragami Museum (Tea Ceremony Room), Yamaguchi, Japan
2013
“house“, MIZUMA ART GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2012
“MIYANAGA Aiko: NAKASORA ―the reason for eternity―“, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2011
“beginning of the landscapes“, MIZUMA ART GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2009
“dwelling in a boat“, MIZUMA ART GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
“MIYANAGA Aiko: Mirage of water“, shiseido art egg 3, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008
“personal site by aiko miyanaga“, Tozanyo kiln, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan
“Rowing Style“, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
2007
“Fireworks from the River ― Miyanaga Aiko“, Sumida Riverside Hall Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“tales dedicated to the dark“, Sleeper Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2005
“Aiko Miyanaga“, neutron, Kyoto, Japan
“MIYANAGA Aiko: soramimimisora(hearing things)“, garden of absence, Art Space NIJI, Kyoto, Japan
2004
“my thread never undo“, neutron, Kyoto, Japan
2003
“Aiko Miyanaga“, CAS, Osaka, Japan
“Uncertainity of Warmth“, neutron, Kyoto, Japan
2002
“A Story They Heard Here“, neutron, Kyoto, Japan
2000
“visible=invisible“, GALLERYGALLERY, Kyoto, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2024
Collection Exhibition 3rd term 2024 “Color Dancing?!: Time-Traveling Art Selected by 13-Year-Olds”, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa
Zipangu – Contemporary artists who have run through the Heisei era, Saga Prefectural Art Museum
KOBE ROKKO MEETS ART 2024 beyond, Chapel of the Wind, Hyogo
A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Absolute Chairs: The Representation of the Chair in Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, and Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
2023
Tsubaki-kai 8: This New World –“Just/ Here/ Now”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
“The Miyanaga People: An Exhibition of Tozan III”, Shibunkaku, Kyoto
Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition “WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
“Interference”, Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum, Tokyo
2022
SHISEIDO Hanatsubaki GALLERY Mini, Sony Park Mini, Tokyo
Journey and Imagination – Connecting to the Stories of Others, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
Tsubaki-kai 8: This New World –“Quest”–, “, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
Meet Your Art Festival 2022 “The Voice of No Mans Land”, Ebisu Garden Place (The Garden Hall), Tokyo, Japan
2021
CONNECT⇄_and Domani@Kyoto “Miyanaga Aiko: Rondo Around a Gingko”, Kyoto Prefectual Library, Japan
“The World Began without the Human Race and It Will End without it”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
“Dialogues with the Collection: 6 Rooms”, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Japan
Northern Alps Art Festival 2020-2021 “Where the wind crosses”, Nyakuichiouji Shrine, Nagano, Japan
Tokyo Biennale 2020/2021 “Messages from the Light”, Yushima Seido Front Garden, Tokyo, Japan
“Tsubaki-kai 8: This New World”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Artists and Disaster: Imagining in the 10th Year”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
“The 33rd Kyoto Fine Arts Cultural Award Memorial Exhibition”, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan
“Workation Resort Bicchu Yakage”, Bicchu Yakage, Okayama, Japan
2020
The Material -Its Form and Spirit, gallery de kasuga, Japan
20th DOMANI:The Art of Tomorrow 2020 “Landscapes in Our Age: Scarred and Reborn”, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2019
“ELLE LOVES ART”, KASHIYAMA DAIKANYAMA, Tokyo, Japan
4th Triennale of KOGEI in Kanazawa “KOGEI as Contemporary Craft: Transcending Boundaries”, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
“Throughout Time: The Sense of Beauty”, Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan
“NEW VIEW”, Hankyu Department Store Umeda Main Store, Osaka, Japan
“Setouchi Toriennale 2019”, Megijima, Kagawa, Japan
“Repetition and Difference: About Time”, Busan Museum of Art, Korea
“Museum of Days”, Sullivan+Strumph Singapore
2018
“Radiance”, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore
MOT Satellite 2018 FALL “To become a narrative”, Kiyosumi-shirakawa, Tokyo, Japan
Culture City of East Asia 2018 Kanazawa “Altering Home”, Hiiro, Ishikawa, Japan
2017
“The Riddle of Art: Takahashi Collection,“ Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
20th DOMANI:The Art of Tomorrow PLUS × Hibiya Library and Museum –Artists meet Books–
Books as Trees and the Library as a Forest., Chiyoda City’s Hibiya Library and Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“REBORN-ART FESTIVALl IN TOKYO“, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
“Mitate and Imagination – Homage to Rikyu and Duchamp”, Former Junpu Elementary School, Kyoto, Japan
Culture City of East Asia 2017 Kyoto “Asia Corridor Contenporary Art Exhibition”, Nijo Castle, Japan
Reborn-Art Festival 2017, Oshika Peninsula & Central Ishinomaki city, Miyagi, Japan
OpenART Biennale 2017, Örebro konsthall, Sweden
Fast Forward Festival 4, Classical Acropol Hotel, Athens, Greece
The Cosmos of the Takahashi Collection, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan
2016
19th DOMANI:The Art of Tomorrow Plus × Kyoto Art Center – Wormhole Travel, Kyoto Art Center, Japan
Culture City of East Asia 2016 Nara “Art Celebration in Nara – Beyond Time and Space”, Warehouse in Kitafurocho, Naramachi, Nara, Japan
Constituent Concreteness, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore
“The Collection of the Takamatsu Art Museum” Exhibition Celebrating the Museum’s Reopening A Concise Guide to Life with Japanese Contemporary Art, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
2015
Takamatsu Media Art Festival 2015, Hiunkaku (Tamamo Park), Kagawa, Japan
COSMOS / INTIME―TAKAHASHI COLLECTION, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, France
Don’t Follow the Wind-Non-Visitor Center, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
CAFE in Mito R, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
TAKAHASHI COLLECTION: Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan
Don’t Follow the Wind, The restricted Fukushima Exclusion Zone, Japan
2014
Esprit Dior, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
Sapporo International Art Festival 2014 City and Nature, Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
1974 part 1: 6 Artists born in 1974, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
ENCOUNTERS, Art Basel HongKong 2014, HongKong
ULTRA×ANTEROOM exhibition, Hotel Anteroom Kyoto, Japan
2013
Towada Oirase Art Festival, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
The 1st Nissan Art Award Finalists Exhibition, Bank ART Studio NYK, Kanagawa, Japan
KASOKEKI + CHIKARA, Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Shiga, Japan
2012
MEDIATIONS BIENNALE 2012, ‘Zamek’ Culture Center, Poznań, Poland
Lady Dior as seen by, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2011
TDW-ART “Elpis-Sky of Hope”, Tokyo Designer Week 2011, Meiji Jingu Gaien, Tokyo, Japan
MASKED PORTRAIT II, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Epic of Units, GALLERY HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea
ZIPANGU, Takashimaya, Tokyo, Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan, Takashimaya, Kyoto, Japan
Silent Significanse, L MD Gallery, Paris, France
2010
TDW-ART “JALAPAGOS”, Tokyo Designers Week 2010, Meiji Jingu Gaien, Tokyo, Japan
Aichi Triennale 2010, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi, Japan
Doubles lumières―Aiko Miyanaga & Naoko Sekine, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, France
2009
Animamix Biennial 2009 – 2010, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
DISCOVERIES, ShContemporary 09, Shanghai Exhibition Center, China
Platform in KIMUSA Void of Memory, KIMUSA, Seoul, Korea
Artist File 2009: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Haptic, Tokyo Wonder Site, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan
Busan Biennale 2008 ― Sea Art Festival, Me World, Busan, Korea
Oshakasama no Tanagokoro, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2007
Gone Native, Atticsalt, Edinburgh, UK
Stars Popping out of Chaos 2007, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
Force of Nature 2006 Documentary Exhibition in Japan, Gallery RAKU, Kyoto, Japan
Sisyphus’ Journal: Art as Everyday Record, Gallery Korea, New York, USA
2006
Force of Nature, McColl Center for Visual Art, North Carolina, USA
Force of Sculpture, CASO, Osaka, Japan
Floating Object, Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan
2005
Take Art Collection 2005, Aoyama Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
City_Net Asia 2005, Seoul Museum Of Art, Korea
wild girls lullaby, ARTZONE, Kyoto, Japan
HANE, neutron, Kyoto, Japan
URA-Art Map, Kyoto Art Center, Japan
Floating Object, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan
Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
2004
ARTISTS BY ARTISTS, Roppongi Academy Hills, Tokyo, Japan
Katsuhiko Hibino / Aiko Miyanaga, INDEXLESS, Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
gallerism 2004, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Japan
TAKE ART COLLECTION 2004, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
Stars Popping out of Chaos 2004, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
Pilot Plant, Tokyo Contemporary Art Factory, CASO, Osaka, Japan
Art Court Frontier 2004 #2, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Vessel for Time Ⅴ, Art Space NIJI, Kyoto, Japan
Floating Object, Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan
Selected Artists in Kyoto 2004 New Wave, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan
2003
10th Contemporary Art From Galleries, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2003, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Show case Gallery, GALLERY GALLERY, Kyoto, Japan, fiscal 2003, and 2004
2002
ART SYNAPSE 2002, Gallery MARONIE, Kyoto, Japan
2001
Meirin Chakai, Kyoto Art Center, Japan
1999
Graduation works Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
1998
Outdoor Sculpture Show, The high-touch research park, Kyoto, Japan
3rd Year Students Show, Gallery RAKU, Kyoto, Japan
1997
Honen-in Two People’s Show, Honen-in temple, Kyoto, Japan
Awards - Grants
2024
The 42nd Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize, Japan
2020
The 33rd Kyoto Art Culture Award, Japan
The 70th Minister of Education Award for New Artist in Fine Arts, Japan
2018
The 2nd Uryuyama Academic Foundation Award, Japan
The 28th Takashimaya Art Award, Japan
2014
The Best Young Artist Award by City of Kyoto, Japan
2013
Nissan Art Award Grand Prize, Japan
2011
The 22nd The Gotoh Memorial Foundation new comer’s prize of art, Japan
2010
The 1st The Creative Tradition Prize, Japan Arts Foundation, Japan
2009
Prize for Best Young Artist Award, DISCOVERIES, ShContemporary 09, Shanghai, China
The 27th The Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize, Japan
The 3rd shiseido art egg 3 Award Prize, Japan
2008
The 3rd Prize of shiseido art egg 3, Japan
Prize of Kyoto Art Center 2008, Japan
2007
Grant for studying in Edinburgh, UK, over Japanese Government
Overseas Study Programme for Artists, Japan
2006
Grant for studying in USA, over Asian Cultural Council, Japan
Kyoto City Exception Art Cultural Achievement Grant Future Possibility, Japan
2004
Excellent prize of Selected Artist in Kyoto 2004 New Wave, Japan
2003
Prize of Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2003, Japan
1999
Presidential prize of Graduation works Exhibition, Japan
Public Collection
Hagi Uragami Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Japan
Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan