Aiko Miyanaga

Aiko Miyanaga (born 1974) is a contemporary Japanese artist known for sculpture and installation works that give visual form to time by revealing the evidential traces of its passing.[1] Miyanaga has made many works using Napthalene which leads to the disintegration of the work over time.

Aiko Miyanaga
Born1974
Kyoto, Japan
NationalityJapanese
EducationKyoto University of Art and Design
Alma materTokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Known forSculpture and installation works
Notable workAiko Miyanaga : strata, origins
StyleContemporary art
AwardsNissan Art Award

Early life and education

Aiko Miyanaga was born in 1974 into a family of potters in Kyoto, Japan, heir to the Miyanaga Tozan kiln.[1] Miyanaga's father is a ceramic artist and a former member of the now disbanded avant-garde modern Japanese ceramics collective Sodeisha.[2]

She went to school at Kyoto University of Art and Design and Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music graduating in 2008.[3][4]

Exhibitions

In 2014, Miyanaga presented a work entitled "Soramimimisora (Hearing Things)", a sound installation employing ceramics.

In 2015, Miyanaga took part in an exhibition inside the exclusion zone near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant along with Ai Weiwei, Taryn Simon, Meiro Koizumi, Takekawa Nobuaki, Ahmet Öğüt and Trevor Paglen. The exhibition was not accessible by anyone during the exhibition dates due to unsafe levels of radioactivity in the area[5]

Miyanaga was in a two-person show with Albert Yonathan Setyawan in 2018 at Mizuma Gallery, Singapore[6]

In 2019, Miyanaga created an installation called "Hair Salon Kotobuki" for Setouchi Triennale in the Seto Inland Sea.[7]

In 2020, Miyanaga featured in an exhibition titled "New View" at Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka[8]

In 2020, Miyanaga was due to exhibit at the 2020 Tokyo Biennale, before it was postponed to 2021 following the COVID-19 pandemic.[9][10]

In 2021, she displayed her work at the Northern Alps Art Festival.[11]

Awards and fellowships

Among the honors which Miyanaga has earned are:

22nd Gotoh Memorial Foundation New Artist Award in 2011[12]

Grand Prize at Nissan Art Award 2013[4][13]

Books
  • Aiko Miyanaga : strata, origins (2014)[14]
  • Aiko Miyanaga - Nakasora The Reason For Eternity (2012)[15]

References
  1. "Asia Corridor: Artist: Miyanaga Aiko". Asia Corridor Contemporary Art Exhibition. Culture City of East Asia. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  2. Rosen, D.H. (January 30, 2009). "Who says an art work must exist? Aiko Miyanaga produces delicate pieces that disintegrate during their exhibitions". Japan Times Ltd. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  3. "Alumni artist-in-residence: Aiko Miyanaga". McColl Center for Art + Innovation. Archived from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  4. "Aiko Miyanaga". Nissan Art Award 2013. Nissan Motor Corporation. 2013. Archived from the original on 25 June 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  5. Jones, Jonathan (July 20, 2015). "Apocalypse no! Why artists should not go into the Fukushima exclusion zone". the Guardian.
  6. "Albert Yonathan Setyawan & Miyanaga Aiko: Radiance". Time Out Singapore. 27 October 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  7. Modak, Sebastian (2019-11-12). "On an Art Scavenger Hunt in Japan's Seto Inland Sea". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  8. "天神で展覧会「数寄景／NEW VIEW―日本を継ぐ, 現代アートのいま」". 天神経済新聞. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  9. Pastore, Jennifer (16 March 2020). "10 Things in Tokyo: 2020". Tokyo Art Beat. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  10. "Announcement of the modification of Tokyo Biennale 2020 | Tokyo Biennale". 2020-05-22. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  11. "Aiko Miyanaga". Northern Alps Art Festival. Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art. 2021. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  12. "Aiko Miyanaga". Sapporo International Art Festival 2014. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  13. "Aiko Miyanaga". ART360. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  14. Berman, David; Ito, Yukiko (2014). Aiko Miyanaga : strata, origins. London: White Rainbow. OCLC 1008089067. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  15. Fukuoka, Shin'ichi; Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan (2012). 空中空 = Nakasora : the reason for eternity. Seigensha: Kyōto-shi. ISBN 978-4861523687. OCLC 820689537. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
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