Keiko Miyamori

Career

Based in Japan and New York, USA
1964Born in Kanagawa, Japan.
1993 BFA, University of Tsukuba, Japan
1995 MFA, University of Tsukuba, Japan
1998–1999Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Reverse Chronological)

1998PD (Distribution) x Earth, Kasumi Tsukuba Center, Ibaraki, Japan
1999 Images of Nature, The Bob and Penny Fox Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
2000 Images of Nature, Gallery X, New York, NY, USA
2001 Typewriter x energy, Nexus Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2002 Imagina, Project Room, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2003 Melody: Recent Work by Keiko Miyamori, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2004 Memoria, Nexus Community Gallery, Nexus Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Natürlich, Elisabethenhof Galerie, Bad Wimpfen, Germany
2011Birdcage and Gilded Boat, ISE Foundation, New York, NY, USA
2015Surface of Being, Gallery t, Tokyo, Japan
2016 PD x Earth II, pace around, Nagano, Japan
Unified World, Tmh.&L’INTERIEUR, Tokyo, Japan
2017 PD x Earth III, pace around, Nagano, Japan
Drawings, be here now, Nagano, Japan
2018Birth, Growth, Recursion, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
2019Tree Rubbing, pace around, Nagano, Japan
Portrait of A Novelist, The Literary Museum of Karuizawa, Japan
Portrait of Being, mhPROJECTnyc, New York, NY, USA
2020 Surfaces of Time, Toki-no-Wasuremono, Tokyo, Japan
2022 Keiko Miyamori, Gallery Koketsu, Gifu, Japan
Memory of the City, University of Tsukuba Art Department Gallery, Ibaraki, Japan
TIME – Etched in Time, Gallery Genra, Kanazawa, Japan
The Sea of Memories, Rose’s Pride, Nakamuraya Salon Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Me, The Timeless Self – within the Umwelt, mhPROJECT Nokogirini, Aichi, Japan
2024 Keiko Miyamori, Kyokusyo Museum, Gifu, Japan
KEIKO MIYAMORI – and then, Gallery Camellia, Tokyo, Japan

AWARDS / GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS

1995‐1996 Tamon Prize Fellowship, Sekiguchi Foundation, Chiba, Japan
1997First Prize, The 16th Imadate Works on Paper Exhibition, Fukui, Japan
1998‐1999 Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan
2003 Window of Opportunity Grant, Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
2004 First Prize, Frederik Meijer Sculpture Competition, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
2008Artist Fellowship, CFEVA (Center for Emerging Visual Artists), Philadelphia, USA
Transformation Grant, Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
2009 Alumni Travel Grant, The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, USA
2010 Fellowship in the Arts, Independence Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
2018 Fellowship, Asahi Shimbun Foundation, Tokyo, Japan

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2018 Lower East Side Ecology Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2020‐2019 BankART AIR, BankART Station, Yokohama, Japan

Morning 2025

800x600x55mm
Washi, Charcoal, Linen, Acrylic paint, Shell powder, Animal glue, Pencil

Day 2025

800x600x50mm
Washi, Charcoal, Linen, Acrylic paint, Shell powder, Animal glue

Night 2025

800x600x60mm
Washi, Charcoal, Linen, Acrylic paint, Shell powder, Animal glue

Keiko Miyamori

Works