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Keiko Miyamori Exhibition
May 12th - June 9th, 2025
Performance by Juri Nishio
May 12th (Sunday) 1:00pm-3:00pm
Location: Kyokusyo Art Museum 939-10 Kusabukootani, Ikeda-cho, Gifu 503-2418, Japan
On the opening day, there will be a performance by dancer Juri Nishio from 3:30pm to 4:00pm.
We would be delighted if you could visit us when you're in the area.
Current Event
Keiko Miyamori’s TIME project now available at BankART KAIKO till 2024.6.9 (Sun)
You can collect one of TIME pieces such as an anniversary date, birthday, etc.
Some of TIME pieces are also available at BankART KAIKO shop as a part of YOKOHAMA Creators COOP COOP.
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A site specific collaborative performance by Yuji Ueno, Keiko Miyamori and Jyunko Maruyama（Title photo：Tatsuhiko Nakagawa Video： SOMA BAN）Performance @ug_ueno Art installation @keiko_miyamori
Projection Mapping #uoukzo Video and edit @bansoma
Photo @0ya086 OP sound source @hojokraft
Produce @mhprojectnyc Cooperation @nokogiri2
Live performance by Yuji Ueno
A site-specific collaborative projects
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1.28 (Sun.)14pmー15pm
15:30pm- Talk Yuji Ueno +Jyunko Maruyama+Keiko Miyamori
The insta-live will be available on the website linked above.
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4-11-3, Kagoya, Ichinomiya-city, Aichi #494-0002
There will be a performance by Kado-ka (florist artist) Yuji Ueno and a talk with the following artist, Junko Maruyama.
If you are in the area, we hope you will drop by.
Current Exhibition
Me, The Timeless Self - within the Umwelt (A Site-specific project)
mh PROJECT_Nokogirini SUMMER 2023 Through January 28th 2024
Kagoya, 4-chōme−11−3, Ichinomiya, Aichi #494-0002
For the past few years, Keiko Miyamori has been reflecting on the events spanning a hundred years in her family's history. One hundred years encompass three generations of her family, all events within her immediate reach.
In her latest work, " Me, The Timeless Self – within the Umwelt,” a part of the mhPROJECT_Nokogirini, Miyamori explores the experience of non-human entities over a thousand-year timespan. Drawing inspiration from stories she heard from locals in Ichinomiya, the narrative of the piece slowly took shape. The artwork incorporates rose petals, a wooden boat, and impressions of the trees in Ichinomiya, captured on handmade washi paper using charcoal.
Special thanks to Iwato Shrine, Jizou Temple, Kawauchiya Sekizaiten, Cafe Asa, Toshikatsu Aoki and Azusa Watanabe (Nitehi-works).
https://mhprojectnyc.com/Me-The-Timeless-Self-within-the-Umwelt
Performance by AINE NAKAMURA
A site-specific collaborative projects
Me, The Timeless Self - within the Umwelt featured a live performance by interdisciplinary artist Aine Nakamura.
Live video here
Full edited version (by Kenta Ito) coming soon
2023.8.5 (Sat) 19:30 ~
2023.8.6 (Sun) 16:00 ~
※ Artist Talk with Keiko Miyamori & Aine Nakamura
8.6 (Sun) After the performance
Performance by Aine Nakamura
Mask and Installation by Keiko Miyamori
Past Exhibitions
The Sea of Memories, Rose’s Pride
Nakamuraya Salon Museum of Art (Tokyo)
2023.3.1 (Wed) - 4.9 (Sun) 10:30-18:00PM Close Tue.
3-26-13 Shinjuku, Shinjuku City, Tokyo
Nakamuraya Salon Museum of Art (Tokyo)
2023.3.1(Wed) - 4.9 (Sun) 10:30-18:00PM Close Tue.
Hideo Arai’s performance video by Masashi Sakamaki
Short version (1 min.)
Full version (21 min. 23 sec.)
A Conversation with Chihiro Minato (Photographer)
Full version (Japanese)
Concept
Several years ago, I inherited a rattan chair that was originally owned by my grandmother on my mother’s side. My father, who will turn 98 this year, had the chair in his room. My grandmother, born in Hawaii as a second-generation Japanese American, came to Japan with her parents at the age of seventeen. She became a simultaneous interpreter, then married and had three children. However, when her eldest daughter (my mother) was seven, Japan and America entered World War II. After Japan’s defeat, she became socially withdrawn and spent most of her time inside her house in Shibuya. She was always calm, and never mentioned the absurdity of the war. But when I found out she had continued to renew her American passport, I began to imagine the scenes she might have seen in her mind while spending her days sitting in the rattan chair in her later years.
The word “Rose” in the exhibition title, The Sea of Memories, Rose’s Pride, implies the floral rose that symbolizes love and dignity, while also alluding to “Tokyo Rose,” the collective name given by the Allied troops to Japanese-American women who served as announcers on a propaganda radio programs produced by the Japanese military during the war. The lives of such second-generation women like my grandmother were at the mercy of the actions of World War II. My mother, born in the Showa era (1926–1989), is an overly earnest person. Though she had a privileged upbringing, she suffered from alcoholism. My father, born in the Taisho era (1912–1926), received a military education. After the war ended, he was devoted to achieving the benefits of the high economic growth in Japan. I was born after the war and would eventually marry an American. The respective stories of my family and myself, who all lived through the Showa period, have washed ashore into The Sea of Memories. Will the viewers encounter the “Rose” buried within their own selves, one who has the will to survive without giving up on love, while also coping with any fate that may befall them? If they are able to perceive their own internal “Rose,” that encounter could evolve into hope in our own era of discord.
SELECTED WORKS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA ART COLLECTION
New Acquisition 2021
miyamori keiko
+ memory of the city
June 27 – July28,2022
UT Faculty of Art & Design Gallery Admission Free 9:00-17:00 Closed: Sat, Sun, and Public Holidays
Tribule Art to Mr. Osamu Ikeda
June 14 (Tue) ~ 19 (Sun)
11am-19pm
BankART Station
5-1 Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa
Press coverage in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art
Keiko Miyamori’s project I Am Still In New York was reviewed by Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
To read the article, click here.
Press coverage in the Brooklyn Rail
Keiko Miyamori’s project I Am Still In New York was reviewed by Arts, Politics & Culture Publication the Brooklyn Rail.
To read the article, click here.
BankART AIR 2021 WINTER OPEN STUDIO
Keiko Miyamori will be participating in BankART Air 2021 Winter Open Studio, inviting visitors into her process of creating her Portrait of Grandmother Matsuno. The Open Studio will feature a variety of artists and will be held at BankART Station & R16 studio in Tokyo, Japan.
Dates: February 5-7, & February 12-14, 2021
Time: 11:00am - 7:00pm
Link To BankART Winter Open Studio Website
Link To Program PDF
I Am Still In New York press coverage in Spoon & Tamago
Japanese Art, Design & Culture publication Spoon & Tamago recently covered Keiko Miyamori’s exhibit I Am Still In New York, in connection with her exhibit at WhiteBox Harlem.
Titled Exodus V: Aesthetics In The Political and curated by Kyoko Sato, the show will feature 15 Japanese women artists, from November 14 to December 6, 2020.
To read the article, click here.
Surfaces Of Time Exhibition Booklet
Due to Coronavirus related restrictions limiting the number of in person visits to her show Surfaces Of Time, Keiko is creating a booklet on the show as a free download.
Apologies to those who were unable to visit the exhibition in person due to COVID.
Surfaces of Time Pdf Booklet (English) is available here.
Japanese version is available here.
Portrait Of My Grandmother Research Project
Keiko Miyamori will be traveling to various locations in Japan and Hawaii to undertake research into her grandmother’s life and the displacement she suffered due to WWII.
Keiko will travel to various cities in Japan such as Hakata, Iwakuni, Ashiya, Shibuya, to study the cultural impacts of war, specifically in connection with her grandmother’s life.
Group Exhibition Exodus V: Aesthetics In Politics at WhiteBox Harlem
Keiko Miyamori will exhibit her work I Am Still In New York at WhiteBox Harlem as part of the group exhibition Exodus V: Aesthetics In The Political. Curated by Kyoko Sato, the show will feature 15 Japanese women artists, and will take place from November 14 to December 6, 2020.
I Am Still In New York is a collection around resilience, documenting the dichotomy between humanity and nature, for 125 consecutive days. Of these, 118 boxes will be on display for the exhibit.
November 14 – December 6, 2020 Tue – Sun, 12-6pm
Opening Reception: November 21, 6-8pm. RSVP to info@whiteboxny.org
Solo Exhibition Surfaces of Time at Gallery Toki-no-Wasuremono
Keiko Miyamori’s solo exhibition "Surfaces of Time" will take place between September 25, through to October 17, 2020 at Toki-No-Wasuremono Gallery in Honkomagome, Tokyo.
The exhibit is by appointment only due to COVID safety protocols. For those who cannot be there in person, the exhibit will be made available online via the Gallery’s website.
There will also be a live talk from the artist on Sept 24, Thursday, 2020
Web Exhibition Link (Early October)
Link To Gallery Website
A Collection Of Personal Essays in Art
Every 17th day of the month, Keiko Miaymori's issue of personal essays and notes are published on the Blog Page Of Gallery Toki-no-Wasuremono.
An ongoing series, the project began in January 2020, and is a documentation of the artist in her own words - covering projects, process details, and musings on art and expression.
Cafe Sheherazade: Book Cover Art and Illustrations
Keiko was commissioned for her Tree Rubbings to be utilized by renowned Japanese Publishers Editorial Republica for the book Cafe Sheherazade by Arnold Zeible, with translations by Kenji Kanno.
Her rubbings from Brooklyn, Roma, Kenya and Romania were featured as the Book Cover Art and as illustrations contained within the publication. The artworks on the cover were created in the same neighborhood ten years apart.
In connection with themes around memories and loss in Miyamori’s work, the book features previously untold stories of experiences and recollections of Holocaust survivors arriving all the way to Australia via Kobe and Shanghai, and their time spent at Cafe Sheherazade in Melbourne.
Asian Women’s Art Database
Keiko Miyamori and her work were selected to be documented in an extensive database created by Asian Women’s Art, alongside fellow contemporary artists like Kunié Sugiura and Tari Ito.
The massive initiative undertaken by Kokatsu Reiko (Professor at Kyoto University Of The Arts) focuses on recapturing art in Asian countries during modern and contemporary projects, and creating inclusion within art history for female artists that have previously been marginalized and largely ignored.