Artist

Aiko MIYANAGA

night voyage -clock-, 2010
Photography by MIYAJIMA Kei, ©MIYANAGA Aiko, Courtesy of Mizuma Art Gallery

waiting for awakening -chair-, MIYANAGA Aiko: Rowing Style, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, 2017
Photography by KIOKU Keizo, ©MIYANAGA Aiko, Courtesy of Mizuma Art Gallery

Valley of Sleeping Sea, MIYANAGA Aiko -Wrapping a verse, Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama, 2023
Photography by KIOKU Keizo, Photo Courtesy of Toyama Glass Art Museum, ©MIYANAGA Aiko

Photography by MATSUKAGE

Aiko MIYANAGA

Born 1974 in Kyoto, Live in Kyoto.
2008 MFA in Intermedia Art, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music

Aiko Miyanaga was born in 1974 in Kyoto, Japan, where she is currently based.
Graduated with an MA in Intermedia Art from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2008. Miyanaga is known for her naphthalene sculptures of commonplace objects, and installations using materials such as salt, leaf veins, and the sound of glaze cracking on freshly fired ceramics. She visualizes time by tracing signs of its presence and expresses the idea that, “the world continues to exist through constant changes.”
Recent exhibitions include a solo show MIYANAGA Aiko -Wrapping a verse (Toyama Glass Art Museum, 2023), a solo show MIYANAGA Aiko-Read the Sea (ZENBI (Kagizen Art Museum), Kyoto, 2023) and WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2023). She received the 70th Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists (Fine Art) in 2020.

Major Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition "MIYANAGA Aiko -Wrapping a verse"Toyama Glass Art Museum (Toyama), 2023
Solo Exhibition "MIYANAGA Aiko-Read the Sea" ZENBI (Kagizen Art Museum, Kyoto), 2023
Solo Exhibition "MIYANAGA Aiko : Rowing Style" Takamatsu Art Museum (Kagawa), 2019

Major Awards

The Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize (Distinguished Achievement), 2024
Minister of Education Award for New Artist in Fine Arts, 2020
Takashimaya Art Award, 2018
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