Kazuko Miyamoto
KAZUKO MIYAMOTO has lived and worked in New York City since 1964. She was born in Tokyo in 1942 where she studied art at the Gendai Bijutsu Kenkyujo (Contemporary Art Research Studio). She moved to New York in 1964 and attended The Arts Student League of New York (1964–1968).
She has been the recipient of Federico II: Premio Internazionale di Pittura; Italy in 2003, the Francis J. Greenburger Foundation Award in 2003, and the National Endowment for the Arts, CAPS in 1979 & 1980.
Public Collections include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art, Print Collection, NYC, Wadsworth Antheneum, Princeton University Art Museum, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT), National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, Neue Gallerie der Stadt, Linz, Austria, Lentos Art Museum, Linz, Austria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, Daimler Art Collection, Berlin.
Private Collections include: Sol LeWitt Collection, David Hammons, Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Heide and Hanna Streick, Tadanori Yotsuda, Marilena Bonomo.
Miyamoto’s 1978 string construction Archway to Cellar, acquired by the Daimler Art Collection in 2014, is included in 31: Women, the current exhibition at Daimler Contemporary in Berlin until June 27, 2021. Her 1971 Untitled string construction, acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in 2020, was included in Some Mysterious Process, an exhibition of works from the last 50 years in the museum’s collection. She was recently included in the exhibition, Dimensions of Reality: Female Minimal at Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris. She will be included in an upcoming exhibition at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo: Another Energy: Art + Life of Women Artists That Continue Creating from April 22 - September 26, 2021.
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Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Press
2021
”4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now”, New York Times, Review by Jillian Steinhauer
2019
”Art Students League to Present Landmark 'Post-War Women' Exhibition”, ArtfixDaily
“Frieze New York Opens”, Artforum
”Decolonizing Western Narratives of Modern Art”, Hyperallergic by Emily Sun
2018
”10 Things in Tokyo: October 2018”, Tokyo Art Beat, by Jennifer Pastore
2017
”The Incessant Art of Kazuko Miyamoto”, Hyperallergic by John Yau
“‘The One with LeWitt’: Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN 214”, FAD Magazine, by Paul Carey-Kent
2016
“Another Hidden Chapter of ’70s Abstraction”, Hyperallergic by Thomas Michelli
2014
Invisible-Exports; Artforum
2009
Kunst aus Fäden; Welt am Sonntag, Germany
2005
The East Hampton Star, November 10th; Art from Detritus
2004
Art in America, Lodz Biennale
La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, May 20th; Quando la Material si Rifa lo Spirito
1998
The New York Times, July 25th, by Jennifer Dunning
1984
Artforum, January, by Jean Silverthorne, (p.74); Midsummer Night‘s Dream
The New York Times, December, by Grace Glueck; Midsummer Night‘s Dream 1980 Artforum, October, by Ronny H. Cohen, (p.75); New York City
1979
Arts Magazine, May, by Janet Heit, (p.16)