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 |
