Aiko Miyanaga


Aiko Miyanaga 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 graduating in 2008.

Exhibitions

In 2014, Miyanaga presented a work entitled "Soramimimisora ", 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
Miyanaga was in a two-person show with Albert Yonathan Setyawan 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.

Awards and fellowships

Among the honors which Miyanaga has earned are:
Nissan Art Award 2013

Books