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.

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1974　Born in Kyoto, Japan

2008　MA, master’s degree program in Intermedia Art, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

1999　BA, Sculpture Course, Depertment of Fine Art, Faculity of Art, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto

Award

2014 The Best Young Artist Award by City of Kyoto, Japan

2013 Nissan Art Award Grand Prize, Japan

2011 The Gotoh Memorial Foundation new comer’s prize of art, Japan

2010 The Creative Tradition Prize, Japan Arts Foundation, Japan

2009 Prize for Best Young Artist Award, DISCOVERIES, ShContemporary 09, Shanghai, China

2009 The Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize, Japan

2009 shiseido art egg 3 Award Prize, Japan

Grants

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

2006 Kyoto City Exception Art Cultural Achievement Grant Future Possibility, Japan→ official site

News Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions Group Exhibitions Public Collection

Letter (detail)
2013
naphthalene, resin, sealing wax, suitcases, mixed media
Nissan Art Award Finalists Exhibition, BankART Studio NYK, Kanagawa
photo: KIOKU Keizo
(c)MIYANAGA Aiko

nakasora -the reason for eternity-
2012
naphthalene, mixed media
"MIYANAGA Aiko: NAKASORA -the reason for eternity-", The National Museum of Art, Osaka
photo: TOYONAGA Seiji
(c)MIYANAGA Aiko

nakasora -waiting for awakening-
2012
naphthalene, resin, mixed media
55.8x67.9x110cm
"MIYANAGA Aiko: NAKASORA -the reason for eternity-", The National Museum of Art, Osaka
photo: TOYONAGA Seiji
(c)MIYANAGA Aiko

beginning of the landscapes
2011
60,000 trimmed fragrant olive leaves, mixed media
380x1,500cm
"beginning of the landscapes", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
photo: MIYAJIMA Kei
(c)MIYANAGA Aiko

yui (ties) (detail)
2010
salt collected from the Horikawa river, threads, naphthalene, dissolving paper, rowing boat, buckets, mail boxes
Aichi Triennale 2010, Aichi Arts Center
photo: HATAKEYAMA Takashi
(c)MIYANAGA Aiko

dwelling in a boat
2009
naphthalene, chest, toy blocks, mixed media
65.7x161.2x70.5cm
"dwelling in a boat", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
photo: MIYAJIMA Kei
(c)MIYANAGA Aiko

color of silence
2009
naphthalene, drawers, apple box, ceramic, glaze, mixed media
"Artist File 2009: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art", The National Art Center, Tokyo
(c)MIYANAGA Aiko

Mirage of water
2009
naphthalene, mixed media
MIYANAGA Aiko: Mirage of water, shiseido art egg 3, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
photo: KATO Ken
(c)MIYANAGA Aiko

A morning a calm comes (detail)
2008
naphthalene, mixed media
"Busan Biennale 2008 -Sea Art Festival", Me World, Busan, Korea
(c)MIYANAGA Aiko

Rowing Style
2008
water from the Goto Islands, cotton thread
Rowing Style, Kyoto Art Center
photo: TOYONAGA Seiji
(c)MIYANAGA Aiko

Fireworks from the River
2007
water from the Sumida River(collected by the Azumabashi Bridge), thread
Fireworks from the River -Miyanaga Aiko, Sumida Riverside Hall Gallery/ Tokyo
photo: UENO Norihiro
(c)MIYANAGA Aiko

soramimimisora (hearing things)
2005
ceramic, glaze, mixed media
sound installation
MIYANAGA Aiko: soramimimisora (hearing things), garden of absence, Art Space NIJI/ Kyoto
photo: HATAKEYAMA Takashi
(c)MIYANAGA Aiko

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2014

“Strata: Origins”, White Rainbow, London, UK

“Strata: slumbering on the shore”, Liverpool Central Library, UK

“ENCOUNTERS”, Art Basel HongKong 2014, HongKong

“Miyanaga Aiko’s Tearoom: soramimimisora (rain palace)”, Hagi Uragami Museum (Tea Ceremony Room), Yamaguchi

2013

“house”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo

2012

“MIYANAGA Aiko: NAKASORA -the reason for eternity-“, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

2011

“beginning of the landscapes”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo

2010

“Doubles lumieres – Aiko Miyanaga & Naoko Sekine”, Maison de la culture du Japon a Paris, France

2009

“dwelling in a boat”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo

“MIYANAGA Aiko: Mirage of Water, shiseido art egg 3”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo

2008

“Personal site by aiko miyanaga”, Tozan Kiln, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto

“Rowing Style, Public Offering -Kyoto Art Center 2008”, Kyoto Art Center,Kyoto

2007

“Fireworks from the River -Miyanaga Aiko, Asahi Art Collaboration”, Sumida Riverside Hall Gallery, Tokyo

2005

“MIYANAGA Aiko: soramimimisora(hearing things), garden of absence”, Art Space NIJI, Kyoto

2004

“Katsuhiko Hibino/ Aiko Miyanaga, INDEXLESS”, Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto

2003

“Aiko Miyanaga”, CAS, Osaka”Uncertainty of Warmth”, neutron, Kyoto

2000

“visible=invisible”, GALLERY GALLERY, Kyoto

Group Exhibitions

2014

“Esprit Dior”, Ginza, Tokyo

“1974 part 1: 6 Artists born in 1974”, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Gunma

“Sapporo International Art Festival 2014 City and Nature”, Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido

“ULTRA×ANTEROOM exhibition”, Hotel Anteroom Kyoto

2013

“Towada Oirase Art Festival”, Towada Art Center, Aomori

“Nissan Art Award Finalists Exhibition”, BankART, Kanagawa

“KASOKEKI + CHIKARA”, Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Shiga

2012

“ZIPANGU”, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum (traveled to: Takasaki Museum of Art (Gunma), Hachinohe City Museum of Art (Aomori), Akita Museum of Modern Art)

“Mediations Biennale 2012”, Zamek Culture Center, Poznan, Poland

“Lady Dior As Seen By”, Ginza, Tokyo

2011

TDW-ART “Elpis -Sky of Hope”, Tokyo Designers Week 2011, Meiji Jingu Gaien, Tokyo

“MASKED PORTRAIT 2”, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

“Epic of Units”, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

“ZIPANGU”, Takashimaya, Tokyo (traveled to: Osaka, Kyoto)

“Silent Significance”, L MD Gallery, Paris, France2010TDW-ART

“JALAPAGOS”, Tokyo Designers Week 2010, Meiji Jingu Gaien, Tokyo

“Aichi triennale 2010”, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Aichi

2009

“Animamix Biennial 2009-2010”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

“DISCOVERIES, ShContemporary 09”, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China

“Platform 2009”, KIMUSA, Seoul, Korea

“Artist File 2009: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art”, The National Art Center, Tokyo

2008

“Haptic”, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo

“Busan Biennale 2008 -Sea Art Festival”, Me World, Busan, Korea

2006

“Force of Nature”, McColl Center for Visual Art, North Carolina, USA

2005

“City_Net Asia 2005”, Seoul Museum Of Art, Seoul, Korea

2004

“Selected Artists in Kyoto 2004 New Wave”, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto

2003

“Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2003”, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma

Public Collection

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

National Museum of Art, Osaka

Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu

Takahashi Collection・Christian Dior k.k

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Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

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