Mai MiyakeArtist
PROFILE
Mai Miyake studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, France. A visual artist, her practice is imbued with a sensibility that can be traced in the depth of ancient Japan, caring for the unicity of what one can feel in the present moment in a chosen space.
Site-specific and collaborative, her works span wide-ranging fields of forms and narratives: she tells stories, intimate and collective, within exquisite installations blending technology, crafts and antiques, ready-made, collage, paintings and poetry.
SOLO EXHIBITION
2023 | Spring-Announcing Bird|Kyoto at Nan no Hana Gallery(Kyoto, Japan) |
2021 | The Summer Grass|KAKIDEN GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan) |
2018 | The Salt of the Earth|Shibuya Kuroda Touen (Tokyo, Japan) |
2017 | 2017 TOBI ART FAIR "Mai Miyake: The Breath of Dragonfly" |Tokyo Art Club, Murakoshi Gallery Booth (Tokyo, Japan) Tenningosei (With the Force of Five Celestial Beings)|t.gallery (Tokyo, Japan) "Everybody Girl is Nobody’s Girl" Book Launch Exhibition|Morioka Shoten Ginza (Tokyo, Japan) Duodecimal Nihombashi|Takashimaya, 6F Art Gallery X (Tokyo, Japan) Time Flies|TRI Gallery Ochanomizu (Tokyo, Japan) |
2016 | The Shape of Prayer|Gallery Zushiya Ginza (Tokyo, Japan) |
2015 | The EM District Japan Week 2015 “Thing that Reminds”|The EM District (Bangkok, Thailand) ART FAIR TOKYO 2015 "Heaven and Earth"|Tokyo International Forum, Gallery Murakoshi (Tokyo, Japan) |
2014 | A Sign|Gallery Kochukyo (Tokyo, Japan) |
2013 | Heaven Helps Those Who Help Themselves.|Pola Museum of Art (Kanagawa. Japan) Little Lily - White Lie|Pola Museum Annex (Tokyo, Japan) Obaitori (cherry, plum, peach, and apricot trees)|Hiroshima Mitsukoshi (Hiroshima, Japan) ART FAIR TOKYO 2013 "March drifting clouds bring forth April flowers"|Tokyo International Forum, Gallery Murakoshi (Tokyo, Japan) THE SEVEN TALES OF A CAT|Gallery Murakoshi (Tokyo, Japan) |
2012 | Dead Angle|ICN Gallery (London, UK) Queen Projects by Ishibashi|Gora Kadan (Kanagawa, Japan) |
2011 | Down the Rabbit Hole|Bunkamura Gallery (Tokyo, Shibuya) FINE ART ASIA 2011 "OPEN WINDOW"|Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (Honkong, China) Auspicious|Gallery Kochukyo (Tokyo, Japan) NEXT vol.1 Sparkling Days|Yokohama Civic Art Gallery (Kanagawa, Japan) |
2007 | When U Wish Upon a Star|sake KYOKA (Tokyo, Japan) ART FAIR TOKYO 2007 "Luna Park"|Tokyo International Forum, Gallery Murakoshi (Tokyo, Japan) |
2005 | Criterium 65|Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito (Ibaraki, Japan) ART FAIR TOKYO 2005|Tokyo International Forum, Gallery Kogure (Tokyo, Japan) Pudding Rather than Praise|Murakoshi Gallery (Tokyo, Japan) Umi-Mori Art Museum (Hiroshima, Japan) |
2004 | Time for Tea|Bunkamura Gallery (Tokyo, Japan) Miyake My Room|Laforet Lapnet (Tokyo, Japan) |
2003 | PRINTEMPS GINZA (Tokyo, Japan) |
GROUP EXHIBITION
2022 | Summer Vacation at a Certain Art Museum|Chiba City Museum of Art(Chiba,Japan) |
2021 | Mai Miyake & Kasetsu Exihibition: The Shapes of Words, The Words of Shapes|Kanagawa Kemnin Hall Gallery(Yokohama,Japan) ART BASEL HONG KONG 2021: UNLIMITED|HK Convention and Exhibition Centre(Chaina) Collaborative Exhibition of the 6th Anniversary of the “World Bonsai Day” and “Saitama Triennale 2020,” Yoshihiro Suda & Mai Miyake|The Omiya Bonsai Art Museum(Saitama,Japan) |
2020 | 2020 Christmas Smile Pola Museum,2020|POLA MUSEUM ANNEX (Tokyo,Japan) Saitama Triennale 2020|Former Omiya ward office (Saitama,Japan) The Meiji Jingu Forest Festival of Art|Meiji Shrine Museum (Tokyo,Japan) |
2019 | Throughout Time : The Sense of Beauty|World Heritage Site Nijo-jo Castle (Kyoto, Japan) Mai Miyake / Aurore Thibout "Aurore Thibout Les Modesties"|Wacoal Study Hall Kyoto Gallery (Kyoto, Japan) |
2018 | Culture City of East Asia 2018 Kanazawa: Altering Home|Neighborhoods in Kanazawa city / 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa, Japan) Busan Museum of Art "BOTANICA"|BUSAN MUSEUM OF ART (Busan, Korea) "Tea Ceremony Fascination of Art and Design" Marcel Wanders, Sudo Reiko, Miyake Mai|Oita Prefectural Art Museum (Oita, Japan) 風詠抄 −常−(JOU)|Yokohama Takashimaya 7F Gallery (Kanagawa, Japan) |
2017 | KAKEGAWA CHAENNALE 2017|Shiseido Art House (Shizuoka, Japan) VOLTA13|MARKTHALLE, Gallery Kogure (Basel, Switzerland) |
2015 | Peninsular Practices: The New Faces of Realism Asian Art|Asian Art (London, UK) (Purple) : Women of Mankind|One East Asia ART Space (Singapore) |
2013 | Ukiyo-e POP|Shizuoka Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art (Shizuoka, Japan) 3rd Support for Reconstruction of The Great et Japan Earthquake Charity Art Bag Auction|Takashimaya, Kyoto/Nihonbash (Kyoto,Tokyo, Japan) BENETTON COLLECTION: Imago Mundi|Fondazione Querini Stampalia (Venice, Italy) TAGBOAT ART FES 2013: SUMMER SHOW 2013|Takashimaya, Kyoto/Nihonbash (Kyoto,Tokyo, Japan) |
2012 | The 57th (2012) CWAJ Print Show|Tokyo American Club (Tokyo, Japan) |
2011 | NEXT vol.1 Sparkling Days|Yokohama Civic Art Gallery (Kanagawa, Japan) The Great East Japan Earthquake Charity Art|Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan) Spiritutainment|100 Tonson Gallery (Bangkok, Thailand) ART HK11|Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (Hong Kong, China) OHAKO|Icn Gallery (London, UK) |
2010 | ART FAIR TOKYO 2010 "3 puku-tsui"|Tokyo International Forum, Murakoshi Gallery (Tokyo, Japan) |
2009 | LOWER AKIHABARA. 1st.|LOWER AKIHABARA (Tokyo, Japan) |
2008 | Kuchu Teien|Gallery Kogure (Tokyo, Japan) ART FAIR TOKYO 2008 “Forget-me-not”|Tokyo International Forum, Masuho Gallery (Tokyo, Japan) |
2007 | Hako Ningen|Gallery Kogure (Tokyo, Japan) Dan/Dans "Le Monde de Coco"|Chanel Nexus Hall (Tokyo, Japan) EDO ISHO "Maister Meets Designer vol.1"|Gallery le bain (Tokyo, Japan) |
2006 | Toumei Ningen|Gallery Kogure (Tokyo, Japan) [express] Shanghai|Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art (Shanghai, China) |
INSTALLATION
2020 | Saitama Triennale 2020|Former Omiya ward office (Saitama,Japan) |
2018 | Culture City of East Asia 2018 Kanazawa: Altering Home|Neighborhoods in Kanazawa city / 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Toyama, Japan) |
2015 | Tokyo Midtown DESIGN TOUCH 2015 "Can Not See the Forest for the Trees"|Tokyo Midtown, Tsumiki no Hiroba (Tokyo, Japan) Oita Sightseeing Wall "Mai Miyake’s World Cuckoo-Clock – WORLD could bea safer place CLOCK"|Oita Prefectural Art Museum (Oita, Japan) |
2012 | Forest of words|Keio University (Kanagawa, Japan) Aqua x Ignis (Mie, Japan) |
2011 | FINE ART ASIA 2011 “OPEN WINDOW”|Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (Hong Kong, China) |
2010 | "East and West, linked by a washi paper thread" with Torafu Architects Inc.|The Italian Cultural Institute (Tokyo, Japan) "Oriente ed occidente uniti da un filo di carta washi" with Torafu Architects Inc.|Villa Necchi Campiglio (Milano, Italy) |
2008 | KOGANECHO BAZAR (Yokohama, Japan) Dan/Dans "The House"|Nihon Homes (Tokyo, Japan) |
CONTRACTED WORKS
2019 | SHISEIDO WINDOW GALLERY 2019|SHISEIDO THE STORE (Tokyo, Japan) |
2018 | SHISEIDO WINDOW GALLERY 2018|SHISEIDO THE STORE (Tokyo, Japan) |
2016 | BEAMS JAPAN (Tokyo, Japan) |
2014 | HOTEL RYUMEIKAN OCHANOMIZU HONTEN (Tokyo, Japan) Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills (Tokyo, Japan) |
2013 | TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2013: TOTO “NEORESTx4CREATORS”|Roppongi Hills (Tokyo, Japan) |
2012 | AQUA x IGUNIS (Mie, Japan) |
2007 | Window Display "COME RAIN OR SHINE"|Maison Hermès (Tokyo, Japan) |
2006 | Inside Out|And A (Osaka/Kanagawa/Fukuoka, Japan) |
WORKSHOP
2012 | "Forest of words" Open work shop at Keio University with Mai Miyake (Kanagawa, Japan) |
2010 | Yokohama Art University (Kanagawa, Japan) |
2007 | Setagaya Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan) |
COLLECTION
2016 | BEAMS JAPAN (Tokyo, Japan) |
2014 | Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills (Tokyo, Japan) HOTEL RYUMEIKAN OCHANOMIZU HONTEN (Tokyo, Japan) |
2013 | Pola Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan) LUCIANO BENETTON COLLECTION (Italy) |
2012 | AQUA x IGUNIS (Mie, Japan) |
2009 | Kakegawa Ninomaru Museum of Art (Shizuoka, Japan) |
2005 | Umi-Mori Art Museum (Hiroshima, Japan) Fujiyama-Museum (Yamanashi, Japan) |
GRANTS
2016 | BVLGARI AVRORA AWARDS |
2010 | DE LA MER 10th Anniversary Female Artist Award |
2003 | Special Jury Prize, Amuse Artist Audition in Kyoto |
JURY in AWARDS
2015 | Terrada Art Award 2015 |
2014 | 1st Terrada Art Award |
2013 | art_icle Award vol.5 |
2012 | KONICA MINOLTA eco art AWARD 2012 |
2010 | Kawaii Award 2010 |
2009 | Maebashi Art Competition Live 2009, vol.13 |
2008 | Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award 2008 |
COLLECTION
2016 | BEAMS JAPAN (Tokyo, Japan) |
2014 | Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills (Tokyo, Japan) HOTEL RYUMEIKAN OCHANOMIZU HONTEN (Tokyo, Japan) |
2013 | Pola Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan) LUCIANO BENETTON COLLECTION (Italy) |
2012 | AQUA x IGUNIS (Mie, Japan) |
2009 | Kakegawa Ninomaru Museum of Art (Shizuoka, Japan) |
2005 | Umi-Mori Art Museum (Hiroshima, Japan) Fujiyama-Museum (Yamanashi, Japan) |