EDUCATION
1999
BFA, Sculpture Course, Department of Fine Art, Faculity of Art, Kyoto University of Art and Design
2008
MFA, master’s degree program in Intermedia Art, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Selected solo exhibitions
2023
“MIYANAGA Aiko -Wrapping a verse”, Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama, Japan (JP)
“MIYANAGA Aiko”, Imura art gallery, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
“MIYANAGA Aiko-Read the Sea”, ZENBI (Kagizen Art Museum), Kyoto, Japan (JP)
2022
"Vallery of Sleepin Sea", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
2020
“Layers of echoing bubbles“, Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2020 Special Exhibition, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan (JP)
2019
“Rowing Style : landscapes of the beginning“, NADiff Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
“MIYANAGA Aiko : Rowing Style“, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan (JP)
2018
“Life“, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
2017
“between waxing and waning“, Ohara Museum of Art, Yurinso, Okayama, Japan (JP)
2015
“reading room“, ART FAIR TOKYO 2015, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
2014
“Strata: Origins“, White Rainbow, London (UK)
“Strata: slumbering on the shore“, Liverpool Central Library, Liverpool (UK)
“Miyanaga Aiko’s Tearoom: soramimimisora (rain palace)“, Hagi Uragami Museum (Tea Ceremony Room), Yamaguchi, Japan (JP)
2013
“house“, MIZUMA ART GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
2012
“MIYANAGA Aiko: NAKASORA ―the reason for eternity―“, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (JP)
2011
“Beginning of the landscapes“, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
2009
“Dwelling in a boat“, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
“MIYANAGA Aiko: Mirage of water“, Shiseido art egg 3, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
2008
“Personal site by aiko miyanaga“, Tozanyo kiln, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
“Rowing Style“, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
2007
“Fireworks from the River ― Miyanaga Aiko“, Sumida Riverside Hall Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
“Tales dedicated to the dark“, Sleeper Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
2005
“Aiko Miyanaga“, neutron, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
“MIYANAGA Aiko: soramimimisora(hearing things)“, garden of absence, Art Space NIJI, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
2004
“my thread never undo“, neutron, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
2003
“Aiko Miyanaga“, CAS, Osaka, Japan (JP)
“Uncertainity of Warmth“, neutron, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
2002
“A Story They Heard Here“, neutron, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
2000
“visible=invisible“, GALLERYGALLERY, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
Selected group exhibitions
2024
Collection Exhibition 3rd term 2024 “Color Dancing?!: Time-Traveling Art Selected by 13-Year-Olds”, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa (JP)
Zipangu – Contemporary artists who have run through the Heisei era, Saga Prefectural Art Museum (JP)
KOBE ROKKO MEETS ART 2024 beyond, Chapel of the Wind, Hyogo (JP)
A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (JP)
Absolute Chairs: The Representation of the Chair in Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, and Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (JP)
2023
Tsubaki-kai 8: This New World –“Just/ Here/ Now”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
“The Miyanaga People: An Exhibition of Tozan III”, Shibunkaku, Kyoto (JP)
Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition “WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP)
“Interference”, Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum, Tokyo (JP)
2022
SHISEIDO Hanatsubaki GALLERY Mini, Sony Park Mini, Tokyo (JP)
Journey and Imagination – Connecting to the Stories of Others, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum (JP)
Tsubaki-kai 8: This New World –“Quest”–, “, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
Meet Your Art Festival 2022 “The Voice of No Mans Land”, Ebisu Garden Place (The Garden Hall), Tokyo, Japan (JP)
2021
CONNECT⇄_and Domani@Kyoto “Miyanaga Aiko: Rondo Around a Gingko”, Kyoto Prefectual Library, Japan (JP)
“The World Began without the Human Race and It Will End without it”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (JP)
“Dialogues with the Collection: 6 Rooms”, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Japan (JP)
Northern Alps Art Festival 2020-2021 “Where the wind crosses”, Nyakuichiouji Shrine, Nagano, Japan (JP)
Tokyo Biennale 2020/2021 “Messages from the Light”, Yushima Seido Front Garden, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
“Tsubaki-kai 8: This New World”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
“Artists and Disaster: Imagining in the 10th Year”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan (JP)
“The 33rd Kyoto Fine Arts Cultural Award Memorial Exhibition”, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan (JP)
“Workation Resort Bicchu Yakage”, Bicchu Yakage, Okayama, Japan (JP)
2020
The Material -Its Form and Spirit, gallery de kasuga, Japan (JP)
20th DOMANI:The Art of Tomorrow 2020 “Landscapes in Our Age: Scarred and Reborn”, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
2019
“ELLE LOVES ART”, KASHIYAMA DAIKANYAMA, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
4th Triennale of KOGEI in Kanazawa “KOGEI as Contemporary Craft: Transcending Boundaries”, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan (JP)
“Throughout Time: The Sense of Beauty”, Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
“NEW VIEW”, Hankyu Department Store Umeda Main Store, Osaka, Japan (JP)
“Setouchi Toriennale 2019”, Megijima, Kagawa, Japan (JP)
“Repetition and Difference: About Time”, Busan Museum of Art, Korea (KR)
“Museum of Days”, Sullivan+Strumph Singapore (SG)
2018
“Radiance”, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore (SG)
MOT Satellite 2018 FALL “To become a narrative”, Kiyosumi-shirakawa, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
Culture City of East Asia 2018 Kanazawa “Altering Home”, Hiiro, Ishikawa, Japan (JP)
2017
“The Riddle of Art: Takahashi Collection,“ Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan (JP)
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 (JP)
“REBORN-ART FESTIVALl IN TOKYO“, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
“Mitate and Imagination – Homage to Rikyu and Duchamp”, Former Junpu Elementary School, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
Culture City of East Asia 2017 Kyoto “Asia Corridor Contenporary Art Exhibition”, Nijo Castle, Japan (JP)
Reborn-Art Festival 2017, Oshika Peninsula & Central Ishinomaki city, Miyagi, Japan (JP)
OpenART Biennale 2017, Örebro konsthall, Sweden (SE)
Fast Forward Festival 4, Classical Acropol Hotel, Athens, Greece (GR)
The Cosmos of the Takahashi Collection, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan (JP)
2016
19th DOMANI:The Art of Tomorrow Plus × Kyoto Art Center – Wormhole Travel, Kyoto Art Center, Japan (JP)
Culture City of East Asia 2016 Nara “Art Celebration in Nara – Beyond Time and Space”, Warehouse in Kitafurocho, Naramachi, Nara, Japan (JP)
"Constituent Concreteness", Mizuma Gallery, Singapore (SG)
“The Collection of the Takamatsu Art Museum” Exhibition Celebrating the Museum’s Reopening "A Concise Guide to Life with Japanese Contemporary Art", Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan (JP)
2015
Takamatsu Media Art Festival 2015, Hiunkaku (Tamamo Park), Kagawa, Japan (JP)
"COSMOS / INTIME―TAKAHASHI COLLECTION", Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, France (FR)
"Don’t Follow the Wind－Non-Visitor Center", The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
"CAFE in Mito R", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan (JP)
"TAKAHASHI COLLECTION: Mirror Neuron", Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan (JP)
"Don’t Follow the Wind", The restricted Fukushima Exclusion Zone, Japan (JP)
2014
"Esprit Dior", Ginza, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
Sapporo International Art Festival 2014 City and Nature, Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan (JP)
1974 part 1: 6 Artists born in 1974, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan (JP)
"ENCOUNTERS", Art Basel HongKong 2014, HongKong (HK)
"ULTRA×ANTEROOM exhibition", Hotel Anteroom Kyoto, Japan (JP)
2013
Towada Oirase Art Festival, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan (JP)
The 1st Nissan Art Award Finalists Exhibition, Bank ART Studio NYK, Kanagawa, Japan (JP)
"KASOKEKI + CHIKARA", Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Shiga, Japan (JP)
2012
"MEDIATIONS BIENNALE 2012", ‘Zamek’ Culture Center, Poznań, Poland (PO)
"Lady Dior as seen by", Ginza, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
2011
TDW-ART “Elpis－Sky of Hope”, Tokyo Designer Week 2011, Meiji Jingu Gaien, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
MASKED PORTRAIT II, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York (USA)
"Epic of Units", GALLERY HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea (KR)
ZIPANGU, Takashimaya, Tokyo, Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan, Takashimaya, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
"Silent Significanse", L MD Gallery, Paris, France (FR)
2010
TDW-ART “JALAPAGOS”, Tokyo Designers Week 2010, Meiji Jingu Gaien, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
Aichi Triennale 2010, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi, Japan (JP)
"Doubles lumières―Aiko Miyanaga & Naoko Sekine", Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, France (FR)
2009
"Animamix Biennial 2009 – 2010", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (CN)
"DISCOVERIES", ShContemporary 09, Shanghai Exhibition Center, China (CN)
"Platform in KIMUSA Void of Memory", KIMUSA, Seoul, Korea (KR)
"Artist File 2009: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art", The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
2008
"Haptic", Tokyo Wonder Site, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
Busan Biennale 2008 ― Sea Art Festival, Me World, Busan, Korea (KR)
"Oshakasama no Tanagokoro", ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan (JP)
2007
"Gone Native", Atticsalt, Edinburgh (UK)
"Stars Popping out of Chaos 2007", Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
"Force of Nature 2006 Documentary Exhibition in Japan", Gallery RAKU, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
"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 (JP)
"Floating Object", Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
2005
Take Art Collection 2005, Aoyama Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
City_Net Asia 2005, Seoul Museum Of Art, Korea (KR)
"Wild girls lullaby", ARTZONE, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
HANE, neutron, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
URA-Art Map, Kyoto Art Center, Japan (JP)
"Floating Object", Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
"Wacoal Ginza Art Space", Tokyo, Japan (JP)
2004
"ARTISTS BY ARTISTS", Roppongi Academy Hills, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
Katsuhiko Hibino / Aiko Miyanaga, INDEXLESS, Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
"Gallerism 2004", Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Japan (JP)
"TAKE ART COLLECTION 2004", Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
"Stars Popping out of Chaos 2004", Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan (JP)
"Pilot Plant", Tokyo Contemporary Art Factory, CASO, Osaka, Japan (JP)
"Art Court Frontier 2004 #2", ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan (JP)
"Vessel for Time Ⅴ", Art Space NIJI, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
"Floating Object", Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan
"Selected Artists in Kyoto 2004 New Wave", The Museum of Kyoto, Japan
2003
10th Contemporary Art From Galleries, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan (JP)
Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2003, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan (JP)
2002
ART SYNAPSE 2002, Gallery MARONIE, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
2001
"Meirin Chakai", Kyoto Art Center, Japan (JP)
1999
"Graduation works Exhibition", Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan (JP)
1998
"Outdoor Sculpture Show", The high-touch research park, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
3rd Year Students Show, Gallery RAKU, Kyoto, Japan (JP)
1997
"Honen-in Two People’s Show", Honen-in temple, Kyoto, Japan (JP)