Biography

Kazuko Miyamoto
Born in 1942, Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in New York, U.S.A.
1968

Art Students League, New York

1964

Gendai Bijutsu Kenkyujo (Contemporary Art Research Studio), Tokyo

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024

Kazuko Miyamoto, Belvedere 21, Vienna (Upcoming)
Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2023

Kazuko Miyamoto, Madre, Museo d'arte contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples

2022

Kazuko Miyamoto: To perform a line, Japan Society, New York

2020

Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2018

Paula Cooper Gallery, New YorkTake Ninagawa, Tokyo

2017

Kazuko Miyamoto: Works 1964-1980, Zürcher Gallery, New York
Kazuko Miyamoto, Zürcher Gallery, New York2016

Kazuko Miyamoto, Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland

2015

Bodily Tactics, Japan Foundation, Delhi

2014

Invisible Exports, New York2013

Container, Exile Gallery, Berlin

2012

Live End Dream No, Exile Gallery, Berlin
Kazuko’s Lost Painting, onetwentyeight, New York2010

Kazuko Miyamoto, Galleria Allesandra Bonomo, Rome

2009

In Search of Lost Time, onetwentyeight, New York
String and Thread, Exile Gallery, Berlin (with Sol LeWitt)

2008

Kunsthalle Krems, Austria

2007

Kazuko Miyamoto, Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy

2004

Kazuko Miyamoto, Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy

2003

Behind Paradise Door, onetwentyeight, New York

2000

Maki Tamura Gallery, Tokyo

1999

55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York

1998

Paradigma, Kunstverein Firma, Linz, Austria

1995

Memories of Lost Materials, Keen Gallery, New York
Kazuko Miyamoto, 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York

1992

Kazuko Miyamoto, Kenkeleba House, New York

1990

Kazuko Miyamoto, Keen Gallery, New York

1988

Kazuko Miyamoto, Neue Galerie, Linz, Austria

1985

Kazuko Miyamoto, Brecht Forum, New York
Kazuko Miyamoto, Kenkeleba House, New York

1984

Wheels and Shadow, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York

1983

A.I.R. Gallery, New York

1977-80 A.I.R. Gallery, New York
1975

A.I.R. Gallery, New York

1973

Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
55 Mercer Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023

15, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2021

Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging - 16 Women Artists from around the World,Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2020

Some Mysterious Process: 50 Years of Collecting International Art, Art Gallery of
New South Wales, Sydney

2019

Emancipation of Humanity: Focusing on Works by Female Artists,
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Home Is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context, Met Breuer, New York2018

Minimalism: Space. Light. Object., National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
This Must Be the Place, 55 Walker, New York
Exile X Summer Camp: May the bridges I burn light the way, Exile Gallery, Berlin
May the bridges I burn light the way, Manifesta 12 Palermo, Cre.Zi. Plus, Italy
Women are very good at crying and they should be getting paid for it,
Kaufmann Repetto Gallery, New York2017

Four Weeks and Forty-Five Years, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
Minimalist Anyway - Lydia Okumura, Kazuko Miyamoto, White Rainbow, London
Grotto Capitale, Exile Gallery, Berlin
Japan House at Arte SP, Japan House, São Paulo

2016

1970’s: 9 Women and Abstraction, Zürcher Gallery, New York
Beatrice Balcou | Kazuko Miyamoto, Exile Gallery, Berlin; L’ISELP, Brussels- 2017
Drawing Dialogues, Selections from the Sol LeWitt Collection, Drawing Center, New YorkJazz: Art of K and D, onetwentyeight, New York (with David Fenn)

2015

Ausstellung 61, Exile Gallery, Berlin
Raciality, onetwentyeight, New York
Eppur si muove, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
A Dialog: (New York), onetwentyeight, New York (with Florin Maxa)
We Paint Experiment, onetwentyeight, New York (with David Fenn)
FAKE, Exile Gallery, Berlin

2014

Janela. Migrating Forms and Migrating Gods, Kochi-Muziris Biennale and Museum of Goa,India
Kimono-Kimono Show, onetwentyeight, New York
Come Rain or Come Shine, onetwentyeight, New York(curated by Kazuko Miyamoto and David Fenn)
The Pink Gaze, Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, Spoleto & Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale‘Giuseppe Tucci’ in Palazzo Brancaccio, Rome(with Atsuko Tanaka, Yoko Ono, and Chiharu Shiota)
Das stille Leben des Sammlers Kempinski, Exile Gallery, Berlin
String, Strang, Strung: Art of K and D, onetwentyeight, New York (with David Fenn)
Post-Op. Perceptual Gone Painterly 1958-2014, Galerie Perrotin, Paris2013

Holiday Pop-Up Shop, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
57th Street - Now and Then, onetwentyeight, New York(with Jesper Haynes and Fumiko Kashiwagi)
Fukuyama Art Walk 2013, Hiroshima, Japan
Conceptual Tendencies 1960s to Today II: Body, Space, Volume, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
7 Artists, onetwentyeight, New York2012

Something, onetwentyeight, New York
Drawing Matters, onetwentyeight, New York
25 Years - Anniversary Show: Part 1 & 2, onetwentyeight, New York2011

Document Performance, Exile Gallery, Berlin
Waves... The Tides of Time, onetwentyeight, New Yorke=enigma, onetwentyeight, New York
Planet Alert, onetwentyeight, New YorkNo Nonessential Conversations Below 10, 000 Feet, Ceres Gallery, New YorkA Place to Which We Can Come, Abandoned Convent of St. Cecilia, New YorkNew York→Tokyo, Pray for Japan, Ju-ichigatsu Gallery, Tokyo
New Year. New Works., onetwentyeight, New York2010

Holiday Bazaar, onetwentyeight, New York
Textile Show, onetwentyeight, New York
Summer Project, onetwentyeight, New York (with Eva LeWitt, Eric Ginsberg and Yuko Kondo)

2009

GOO‘z, onetwentyeight, NYC Tribes Gallery, New York2008

Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
Original Bag, onetwentyeight, New York2007

Black & White, Lentos Art Museum, Linz, Austria

2006

femme brut(e), Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut
Where We Are, onetwentyeight, New YorkThe Boss Show, onetwentyeight, New York
From Haarlem to Harlem, Galerie Nieuw Schoten, Haarlem, Netherlands

2005

Art From Detritus, Gallery MERZ, Sag Harbor, New YorkI Want to Dance, onetwentyeight, New York

2004

Kleinigkeiten, Kliemsteinhaus, Linz, Austria2001

Woman and Children in Solidarity with the Afghan Women’s Mission, onetwentyeight,New York
(curated by Angela Valeria and Kazuko Miyamoto)2000

Gerald Jackson and Kazuko Miyamoto, Maki-Tamura Gallery, Tokyo

1999

Drawn from Artists’ Collections, Drawing Center, New York

1998

Contrasts, Brooklyn Brewery, New YorkIn-Sites IV: Opening the Streetscape/School to Community; proposals byLower East Side Artists, Henry St. Settlement Abrons Art Center, New York
Material Girls, onetwentyeight, New York1995

Art from Detritus, Massman Gallery of Rockhurst College, Kansas, Missouri;
Henry St. Settlement Abrons Art Center, New YorkOn the Line, Selections from the LeWitt Family Collection,
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut

1992

Nature, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
In Your Face: Politics of Body and Personal Knowledge, AC Project Room, New York
Bleaching Containment, Gallery Three Zero, New YorkThe New World Order III, Curio Shop, Artists Space, New YorkKenkeleba House Gallery, New York

1991

Open Mind: The LeWitt Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
No Peace/Know Peace, onetwentyeight, New York1989

Asian-American Artists, onetwentyeight, New York
Running Out of Time, onetwentyeight, New York

1988

Father, Asian American Art Center, New YorkSix Contemporary Sculptors, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Works from Suitcase: A Travelling Exhibition, Austria and Poland(curated and participated by Kazuko Miyamoto and Paul Fischnaller)

1987

Reconstruction Project, Museum of Chinese in America, New York1985

Asian Artists in New York, A’ Gallery, New York1984

Art Against Apartheid, Henry St. Settlement, New York (organized by Nancy Spero)
Stick and Stone, Kenkeleba House, New York1984

Non-Affiliated Artists, C.W. Post College, Long Island, New York
Hecstastrom, Traun, Austria
Tokyo - Hong Kong - New York, Kenkeleba House, New YorkArt While - U - Eat, Cedar’s Tavern, New York
Exchange of Sources: Expanding Sources, California State University Stanislaus, Turlock
O.I.A at Green Space: Sculpture, Green Space, New York

1982

Cric Crac, Franklin Furnace, New York (with Charles Abrahams)Contemporary Drawings, Larry Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
All’s Fair: Love and War, Ohio State University, Columbus
December Show, Kwok Gallery, New York
Beauty, ABC No Rio, New York
Five Artists, Binibon, New YorkSpecial Omelettes, Binibon, New York1981

Isamu Ishikawa and Friends, Nissin Gallery, TokyoFive Elements, Kenkeleba House, New York
A.I.R. Goes to Sweden, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden

1980

Art Across the Park, Central Park, New York
Wards Island Sculpture Garden, Wards Island, New York

Dialects of Isolation, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
(curated and participated by Kazuko Miyamoto and Ana Mendieta)
1979

Three Outdoor Sculptures, Roosevelt Public Library, New York
Recent Acquisitions: American Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New YorkA Great Big Drawing Show, MoMA PS1, New York1978

Works of A.I.R. Artists, Ginza Kaigakan, Tokyo(participated and curated by Kazuko Miyamoto)Kazuko/Denise Green, Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
Tut in Town, Nobe Gallery, New YorkArt Forum Show, MoMA PS1, New York
Five Artists Changing, Franklin Marshall College, New York
Contemporary Selections, C.W. Post College, Long Island City, New YorkInstallations, Nobe Gallery, New York (with Lydia Okumura and Cecile Abish)
Overview: Five Years of A.I.R., MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York

1977

Fiber Workers: North and South Americas and Japan,
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Wall Works, Alternative Center for International Arts, New York
Custom and Culture, U.S. Customs House, New York
Ginza Kaigakan, Tokyo (catalog by Lawrence Alloway)

1976

Soho, New York, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

1975

John Weber Gallery Invitational Show, John Weber Gallery, New York1974

New York 11, C.W. Post Center Gallery, Long Island, New York

1973

Wall Works, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York
Images, Museum of Modern Art, New York1972

Rosa Esman Gallery, New York
13 Women Artists, Women’s Ad Hoc Committee, 117-119 Prince St., New York(with Louise Bourgeois, Loretta Dunkelman, Pat Lasch, Patsy Norvell and Joyce Robins)
Ten Artists Who Happen to Be Women,Michael C. Rockefeller Art Center Gallery, State University of New York, Albany

1971

Four Artists, Pace University, New YorkInstallations
2013

Garden Installation, Hofkabinet, Linz, Austria

1999

Nordic World Ski Championship: Outdoor Sculpture Show, Ramsau am Dachstein, Austria

1989

Outdoor Piece, Good Gustail, Linz, Austria

1979

Breaking in, 9th Precinct, New York1978

Egypt, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York

Performances & Stage Sets
2008

Vision Festival XIII, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York2007

Kazuko Dances at Nancy Spero’s, Nancy Spero Studio, New YorkStream and Green Tea: dance and collaboration with Patricia Parker and William Parker,Teatro LaTea, New York

2004

Umbrella Dance, Łódź Biennale 2004, PolandLife Dance; collaboration with Gloria McLean Life Dance Co., Andes, New York

1998

Untitled; collaboration with Gerald Jackson and Toki Osaki, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York1997

How to Be a Perfect Woman; collaboration with Vernita N’Cognita and Billy Bang,
onetwentyeight, New YorkHer Father; collaboration with Gloria McLean Life Dance Co., Tenri Art andSquid Dance Studio, New York

1989

Shadows and Puppets & ABC, ABC No Rio, New York

1983

Waiting for the Carnical, New York

Public Commission
1978

String Construction, College of Optometry, State University of New York, New York

Residencies
2011

Eleanor, Winterhafen, Artist Residency on Boat, Linz, Austria(culminated with a solo show and film with Georg Ritter)

2008

Factory/Kunst Halle, Krems, Austria

1982

Artist in Residence in Bryant Park, Public Art Fund, New YorkAwards & Grants
2006

Federico II: Premio Internazionale di Pittura; Bari and Palermo, Italy

2003

Francis J. Greenburger Foundation Award, U.S.A.

1979-80 National Endowment for the Arts, CAPS, U.S.A.
Selected Public Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
Lentos Art Museum, Linz, Austria
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
M+, Hong Kong
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D. C.
Sol LeWitt Collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Bibliography

Selected Publications
2016

Moore, Sabra, Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City,
1970-1992, New Village Press, New York2015

Kazuko Miyamoto by Daimler Art Collection with Christian Siekmeier and Luca Cerizza,Exile, Berlin

2010

Collischan, Judy, Made in the U. S. A.: Modern/Contemporary Art in America,iUniverse, Bloomington, Indiana

2007

Kazuko Miyamoto: Artist’s Portfolio, La Fabrica, Matador, Madrid

1997

Auntie Art, CD, Mixed Sound and Poetry, collaboration with Kurt Novak and others

1990

Lippard, Lucy R., Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America, Pantheon, New York

1977

Catalog by Lawrence Alloway; Ginza Kaigakan, Tokyo

Selected Reviews
2014“Invisible-Exports,” Artforum

2009“Kunst aus Fäden” Welt am Sonntag, Germany

2005“Art From Detritus,” East Hampton Star, November 10

2004“Lodz Biennale,” Art in America“Quando la Material si Rifa lo Spirito,” La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, May 20

1998

Dunning, Jennifer, “Review - Her Father,” New York Times, July 25

1984

Glueck, Grace, New York Times, December 28
Silverthorne, Jean「Review - Midsummer Night's Dream」Artforum, January, pp.74

1980
1979

Cohen, Ronny H.「Reviews - New York City」Artforum, October, pp.75
Heit, Janet「Reviews」Arts Magazine, May, pp.16