Aiko Miyanaga Explained

Aiko Miyanaga
Birth Date:1974
Birth Place:Kyoto, Japan
Nationality:Japanese
Education:Kyoto University of Art and Design
Alma Mater:Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Known For:Sculpture and installation works
Notable Works:Aiko Miyanaga : strata, origins
Style:Contemporary art
Awards:Nissan Art Award

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 naphthalenee 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.[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]

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[4]

Miyanaga was in a two-person show with Albert Yonathan Setyawan in 2018 at Mizuma Gallery, Singapore[5]

In 2019, Miyanaga created an installation called "Hair Salon Kotobuki" for Setouchi Triennale in the Seto Inland Sea.[6]

In 2020, Miyanaga featured in an exhibition titled "New View" at Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka[7]

In 2020, Miyanaga was due to exhibit at the 2020 Tokyo Biennale, before it was postponed to 2021 following the COVID-19 pandemic.[8] [9]

In 2021, she displayed her work at the Northern Alps Art Festival.[10]

Awards and fellowships

Among the honors which Miyanaga has earned are:

22nd Gotoh Memorial Foundation New Artist Award in 2011[11]

Grand Prize at Nissan Art Award 2013[12] [13]

Books

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Asia Corridor: Artist: Miyanaga Aiko. Asia Corridor Contemporary Art Exhibition. Culture City of East Asia. 29 November 2017.
  2. News: Rosen. D.H.. Who says an art work must exist? Aiko Miyanaga produces delicate pieces that disintegrate during their exhibitions. 30 November 2017. Japan Times Ltd.. January 30, 2009.
  3. Web site: Alumni artist-in-residence: Aiko Miyanaga . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220701005240/https://mccollcenter.org/artists-in-residence/artist/aiko-miyanaga . 1 July 2022 . 30 November 2017 . McColl Center for Art + Innovation.
  4. Web site: Apocalypse no! Why artists should not go into the Fukushima exclusion zone. Jonathan. Jones. July 20, 2015. the Guardian.
  5. Web site: 27 October 2018 . Albert Yonathan Setyawan & Miyanaga Aiko: Radiance . 22 June 2020 . Time Out Singapore . en.
  6. News: Modak. Sebastian. 2019-11-12. On an Art Scavenger Hunt in Japan's Seto Inland Sea. en-US. The New York Times. 2020-06-22. 0362-4331.
  7. Web site: 天神で展覧会「数寄景/NEW VIEW―日本を継ぐ, 現代アートのいま」. 2020-06-22. 天神経済新聞.
  8. Web site: Pastore . Jennifer . 16 March 2020 . 10 Things in Tokyo: 2020 . 22 June 2020 . Tokyo Art Beat . en.
  9. Web site: 2020-05-22. Announcement of the modification of Tokyo Biennale 2020 Tokyo Biennale. 2020-06-22. en-US.
  10. Web site: 2021 . Aiko Miyanaga . 2022-03-12 . Northern Alps Art Festival . Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art . en-US.
  11. Web site: Aiko Miyanaga . 2022-03-12 . Sapporo International Art Festival 2014 . en-US.
  12. Web site: 2013 . Aiko Miyanaga . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210625021907/http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/CITIZENSHIP/NAA/NAA2013/ARTISTS/AIKO_MIYANAGA/ . 25 June 2021 . 30 November 2017 . Nissan Art Award 2013 . Nissan Motor Corporation.
  13. Web site: Aiko Miyanaga . 2022-03-12 . ART360 . en-US.
  14. Book: Berman. David. Ito. Yukiko. Aiko Miyanaga : strata, origins. 2014. White Rainbow. London. 1008089067. 30 November 2017.
  15. Book: Fukuoka. Shin'ichi. Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan. 空中空 = Nakasora : the reason for eternity. 2012. Kyōto-shi. Seigensha. 978-4861523687. 820689537. 30 November 2017.