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.
Miyanaga has made many works using
Napthalene which leads to the disintegration of the work over time.
Early life and education
Aiko Miyanaga was born in 1974 into a family of potters in
Kyoto, Japan, heir to the
Miyanaga Tozan kiln.
Miyanaga's father is a ceramic artist and a former member of the now disbanded
avant-garde modern Japanese
ceramics collective
Sodeisha.
She went to school at
Kyoto University of Art and Design and
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
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graduating in 2008.
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
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and
Trevor Paglen. The exhibition was not accessible by anyone during the exhibition dates due to unsafe levels of radioactivity in the area
Miyanaga was in a two-person show with
Albert Yonathan Setyawan Albert Yonathan Setyawan (born in Bandung, Indonesia, 1983) is an Indonesian contemporary ceramic artist, living in Japan.
Early life and education
Setyawan studied ceramics at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and Kyoto Seika University.
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in 2018 at Mizuma Gallery, Singapore
In 2019, Miyanaga created an installation called "Hair Salon Kotobuki" for Setouchi Triennale in the Seto Inland Sea.
In 2020, Miyanaga featured in an exhibition titled "New View" at Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka
In 2020, Miyanaga was due to exhibit at the 2020 Tokyo Biennale, before it was postponed to 2021 following the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2021, she displayed her work at the Northern Alps Art Festival.
Awards and fellowships
Among the honors which Miyanaga has earned are:
22nd Gotoh Memorial Foundation New Artist Award in 2011
Grand Prize at Nissan Art Award 2013
Books
* ''Aiko Miyanaga : strata, origins'' (2014)
* ''Aiko Miyanaga - Nakasora The Reason For Eternity'' (2012)
References
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1974 births
Living people
20th-century Japanese women artists
21st-century Japanese women artists
Japanese contemporary artists
Artists from Kyoto