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Born in Tokyo, Japan.
Keita Miyazaki is an artist exploring the supposedly polar notions of orderliness and phantasy. His installations select materials for their capacity to suggest ambiguity: traditional like metal, light and fragile like paper, invisible like sound. These juxtaposing techniques avoid concrete description, instead suspending forms in a state of uncertainty. In recent works, he employed parts of a second-hand car welded together and covered with a cocoon of paper. The assemblage releases sounds which the artist likens to colours, thus his work does not reflect or describe what we see, but instead infuses it with the healthy paradoxes of reality.
Education
- 2007
- BA Craft Metal Casting, Tokyo University of the Arts
- 2009
- MA Craft Metal Casting, Tokyo University of the Arts
- 2013
- MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
- 2015
- PhD Craft Metal Casting, Tokyo University of the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
- 2022
- "Relativity of the thing", MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, Tokyo
- 2019
- Solo presentation, ZONAMACO, Mexico City, Mexico
'Scope of a Utopia', rin art association, Takasaki, Japan - 2018
- 'A Mirage of Ruins', rosenfeld porcini, London, UK
- 2017
- Solo presentation, Untitled, Miami, US
- 2016
- 'The Tower', LOKO GALLERY, Tokyo
- 2015
- 'Post-Apocalypse', Daiwa Foundation, London
- 2009
- 'Layer', B-gallery, Tokyo
- 2008
- 'Excursion', Ai Gallery, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
- 2020
- Art Brussels, Belgium
Art Dubai, UAE
ALAC, Los Angeles, US - 2019
- Untitled, Miami, US
'Second Hand', Jameel Arts Centre, UAE
'Materia', rosenfeld porcini gallery, London
Duo presentation, Art Dubai, UAE - 2018
- 'I Say Yesterday, You Hear Tomorrow. Visions from Japan' Gallerie delle Prigioni Imago
Mundi Luciano Benetton Collection, Treviso, Italy
'Childhood another bananaday for the dream-fish', Palais de Tokyo, Paris
'Artist Social Reproduction', Kyoto City University of Arts @KCUA, Japan - 2017
- 'After the Deluge', Sala Convegni di S. Apollonia, Venice
'Echo of the Echos', Seibu Shibuya Art Gallery, Japan
'Opening group show', rin art association, Japan - 2016
- 'HEI/ SAY POP', Sway Gallery , London
'Across the Divide', rosenfeld porcini gallery, London
'NEO NIPPONICA', Victoria and Albert Museum, London - 2015
- '3331 Art Fair 2015 -Various Collector’s Prizes-', 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
'SCULPTURE IN THE CITY 2015', London - 2014
- 'Tokyo University of the Arts Doctoral Program Final Exhibition', University Art Museum, Tokyo
'Art International By the Waterside', Istanbul
'sound and vision', rosenfeld porcini gallery, London
'Organisms of Control', Pinsent Masons, London
'Four Sights', Azabujuban Gallery, Tokyo
'Zetter Show', Zetter Hotel, London - 2013
- 'Degree Show 2013', Royal College of Art, London
'Void Open Call 2013', Void Art Gallery, London - 2012
- 'Interim Show', RCA, London
'RCA Secret', RCA, London - 2010
- 'SICF11', Aoyama Spiral Hall, Tokyo
'Binabi Exhibition', Mori Arts Centre Gallery, Tokyo
“Transformation', Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
- 2009
- 'International Exhibition 2009', Daegu University, Daegu
- 2008
- 'International Metal Exhibition', Beijing
'Imocolle', Tennouzu Central Tower', Tokyo - 2007
- 'The 4th Sano Renaissance Exhibition', Sano Culture Centre, Tochigi
Awards
- 2006
- Haruji Naitou Prize, Tokyo University of the Arts
- 2007
- The Government of Tokyo Prize
- 2008
- Ataka Prize, Tokyo University Arts
Selected Collection
- Ogi Kankou, Ltd
- 27 Motimer Street