MIYANAGA, AIKO

Aiko Miyanaga
N a m e : MIYANAGA, AIKO

Born & Lives

1974 Born in Kyoto, Japan
Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan

Education

2008 MFA, Department of Intermedia Art, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
1999 BA in Sculpture, Department of Fine Art, Faculty of Art, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

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, Yurinso, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
2015 reading room, Art Fair Tokyo 2015, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Strata: Origins, White Rainbow, London, United Kingdom
Strata: slumbering on the shore, Liverpool Central Library, Liverpool, United Kingdom
ENCOUNTERS, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Miyanaga Aiko’s Tea Room: soramimisora (rain palace), Hagi Uragami Museum (Tea Ceremony Room), Yamaguchi, Japan
2013 house, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012 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, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Rowing Style, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
personal site by aiko miyanaga, Kyoto, Japan
2007 Asahi Art Collaboration Fireworks from the River - Miyanaga Aiko, Sumida Riverside Hall Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
tales dedicated to the dark, sleeper, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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 As Slumber Arrives, CAS, Osaka, Japan
Uncertainty of Warmth, neutron, Kyoto, Japan
2002 A Story They Heard Here, neutron, Kyoto, Japan
2001 o/sentaku, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 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, Taiwan
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, Albert Yonathan Setyawan & Miyanaga Aiko, 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 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
Mitate and Imagination – Homage to Rikyu and Duchamp, Former Junpu Elementary School, Kyoto, Japan
Culture City of East Asia 2017 Kyoto - Asia Corridor Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan
Reborn-Art Festival 2017, Oshika Peninsula & Central Ishinomaki city, Miyagi,Japan
OpenART Biennale 2017, Örebro konsthall, Sweden
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
Art Celebration in Nara – Beyond Time and Space, Naramachi, Nara, Japan
Constituent Concreteness, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore
The Collection of the Takamatsu Art Museum, 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, Gunma, Japan
ULTRA×ANTEROOM exhibition, Hotel Anteroom Kyoto, Japan
2013 Towada Oirase Art Festival, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
Nissan Art Award Finalists Exhibition, Bank ART, Kanagawa, Japan
KASOKEKI + CHIKARA, Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Shiga, Japan
2012 Mediations Biennale 2012, Zamek Culture Center, Poznan, Poland
Lady Dior as seen by, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2011 TDW-ART Elpis – Sky of Hope, Meiji Jingu Gaien Environmental Design Tent, Tokyo, Japan
The Masked Portrait Part II: When Vibrations Become Forms, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City, New York, USA
Epic of Units, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea
ZIPANGU - 31 spirited artists cutting through new territories of Japanese contemporary art, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Takashimaya Osaka, Japan and Takashimaya Kyoto, Japan)
Silent Significance, L MD Gallery, Paris, France
2010 TDW-ART Jalapagos, Meiji Jingu Gaien Environmental Design Tent, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan 2011)
Aichi Triennale 2010, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi, Japan
Doubles lumières – Aiko Miyanaga & Naoko Sekine, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, Paris, France
2009 Animamix Biennale 2009-2010, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
DISCOVERIES - ShContemporary 09 (curated by Kataoka Mami, Mori Art Museum), Shanghai, China
Platform 2009 - Void of Memory (curated by Kim Sunjung), Seoul, South Korea
Artist File 2009: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Haptic, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo (curated by Vik Muniz), Tokyo, Japan
Busan Biennale 2008 – Sea Art Festival, Me World, Busan, South Korea
2007 Gone Native, Atticsalt, Edinburgh, UK
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, and 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, OBJECT, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, and 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, Kyoto, Japan
gallerism 2004, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan,
TAKE ART COLLECTION 2004, Aoyama Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan,
Stars Popping out of Chaos 2004, Aoyama Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
Pilot Plant, Tokyo Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo, and 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, and Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan
Selected Artists in Kyoto 2004 New Wave, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan
Show case Gallery, SHOWCASE GALLERY, 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, SHOWCASE GALLERY, Kyoto, Japan
2002 ART SYNAPSE 2002, Gallery MARONIE, Kyoto, Japan
2001 Meirin Chakai, Kyoto Art Center, Japan
1999 Graduation works Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, 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

2014 The Best Young Artist Award by City of Kyoto, Japan
2013 Nissan Art Award Grand Prize, Japan
2011 The Gotoh Memorial Foundation Newcomer's Prize for Art, Japan
2010 The Creative Tradition Prize, Japan Arts Foundation, Japan
2009 Prize for Best Young Artist Award, DISCOVERIES - ShContemporary 09, Shanghai, China
The Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize, Japan
shiseido art egg 3 Award Prize, Japan
2008 Prize of shiseido art egg 3, Japan
Prize of Kyoto Art Center 2008, Japan
2007 Grant for studying in Edinburgh, UK, from Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists, Japan
2006 Grant for studying in USA, from Asian Cultural Council, Japan
Kyoto City Exceptional 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 Collections

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Hagi Uragami Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Christian Dior K.K, Japan
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Japan

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