Yoko Miki
Yoko Miki was born in 1963 in Hyogo, Japan, and is currently based in Kyoto. She graduated from the Department of Crafts
(Ceramics), Faculty of Arts, Osaka University of Arts, and completed the postgraduate program in crafts at the same university.
Miki creates installations that combine ceramic objects made by her own hands with industrial materials of contrasting
properties, unfolding across walls and within spatial environments. Through structures that evoke piping and connections, she
explores the body and space as conduits through which flows are transmitted.
Her work is rooted in a sensitivity to unseen realms embedded in everyday life, and develops around themes such as “boundaries”
and “darkness.” By probing the ambiguous zones that emerge between opposing concepts̶life and death, consciousness and
the unconscious, inside and outside̶her installations quietly engage the viewer’ s bodily perception and unconscious
awareness.
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1963 Born in Hyogo, Japan
1986 BFA in Ceramics, Osaka University of Arts
1988 Postgraduate Program in Crafts, Osaka University of Arts
2001- Visiting Professor, Ceramics Course, Osaka University of Arts
<Solo Exhibitions>
1995 DARK HALF, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto (1993, 1997)
2006 at home, in the room, Gallery TAF, Kyoto (2002)
2007 Kitchen, VOICE GALLERY psf/w, Kyoto (2005)
2008 A Day Dream, Azabujuban Gallery, Tokyo
2009 Ear Pillow, Gallery Yuragi, Kyoto
2010 PET SHOP, INAX Galleria Ceramica, Tokyo
2011 Before Dark, Nowf Contemporary, Gifu (2013)
2019 - absurd -, Note Gallery, Osaka
2025 Kotono Hajimari, Nowf Contemporary, Gifu
2026 Flowing Scenery: Celebration of Everyday Life, Gallery Keifu, Kyoto
<Art Fairs>
1986 Asahi Contemporary Craft Exhibition, Tokyo / Osaka
Kazuo Yagi Award Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics (1987)
International Ceramics Competition Mino
2004 Kyoto Art Center Open Call
stay with art ‒ boundary line, Hotel T’ Point, Osaka
2006 art in transit, The Palace Side Hotel, Kyoto
2009 Asian Contemporary Ceramics, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum (2012, 2013)
2011 Monotone Forms: Expressions in Ceramics, YOD Gallery, Osaka
2013 ART OSAKA (YOD Gallery), Hotel Granvia Osaka (2014‒2016)
7 TYPES ‒ Contemporary Art Now, Matsuzakaya, Nagoya
VISIONS OF FLOWERS, Osaka Takashimaya
2014 Taiwan International Ceramics Biennale, Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City
2015 YOUNG ART TAIPEI (YOD Gallery), Taipei
2016 Art Award IN THE CUBE, Gifu Prefectural Museum of Art, Gifu
KOGEI Art Fair Kanazawa, KUMU Kanazawa (YOD Gallery) (2018‒2021)
Art That Is Slightly Scary yet Addictive, Umeda Tsutaya Books, Osaka
2018 Ceramics, Metal, Lacquer ‒ Materials and Expression, Itami Crafts Center, Hyogo
2019 VvK24 ‒ Curated by Ayaka Miyata, KUNST ARZT, Kyoto
2022 The Power of Crafts, Osaka University of Arts Art & Information Center, Osaka (2023, 2024)
Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival Art Fair, Grand Front Osaka (YOD Gallery)
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