Miwa YANAGI

Born in Kobe

Lives and work in Kyoto

SOLO SHOW

  • 2018
    • “The Goddess and the God Separate Under The Peach Tree”, Loock Galerie, Berlin
  • 2010
    • “Lullaby”, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
    • “Fairy Tales”, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2009
    • “po-po niang-niang”, National Museum of Arts, Osaka
    • “My Grandmothers”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
    • Bienal de Venecia. Artista seleccionada en representación del pabellón de Japón
  • 2008
    • Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
      Natinal Museum of Art, Osaka
    • The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Caroline Wiess Law Building
      Natinal Museum of Art, Osaka
      Miwa Yanagi -Deutsche Bank Collection. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Caroline Wiess Law Building
  • 2007
    • Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan.
    • “798” Dashanzi Art
      District , Guangdong Museum of Art
      Miwa Yanagi, Deutsche Bank Collection, Chelsea Art Museum (New York)
  • 2006
    • Taipei Contemporary Art Museum
      Aichi Contemporary Art Center
      Gwangju-Biennial Korea
  • 2005
    • Presentación del DVD “Suna Onna” en el Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
    • “The Incredible Tale of the Innocent Old Lady and the Heartless Young Girl” Hara
      Museum of Contemporary Art
  • 2004
    • “Fairy Tale & Video “Girls in her sand” Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
    • “Miwa Yanagi – Sammlung Deutsche Bank” Deutsche Guggenheim / Berlin
    • “Miwa Yanagi Darkness of Girlhood & Lightness of Aging” Marugame
      Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art / Kagawa
    • “Granddaughters” Lille 2004, Lille, France
  • 2003
    • “My Grandmothers” Wohnmaschine / Berlin
    • “Miwa Yanagi” Galería Leyendecker / Islas Canarias (España)
  • 2002
    • “My Grandmothers” Galerie Almine Rech / Paris
    • “Miwa Yanagi” Istituto Giapponese di Cultura in Roma / Rome
    • “Miwa Yanagi Granddauchters” Shiseido Gallery / Tokyo
    • “Miwa Yanagi” Fukuoka Art Museum / Fukuoka
    • “Miwa Yanagi My Grandmothers” KPO Kirin Plaza Osaka / Osaka
  • 2001
    • “Grandmother” Gallery Kodama / Osaka)
  • 2000
    • “Miwa Yanagi” Galerie Almine Rech (Paris)
    • “My Grandmother” Art Space Niji / Kyoto
  • 1999
    • “Midnight Dream Awakening” Gallery Kodama / Osaka
  • 1998
    • “Miwa Yanagi” Wohnmaschine / Berlin
    • “Miwa Yanagi” Art Space Niji / Kyoto
  • 1997
    • “Miwa Yanagi” Gallery Muramatsu / Tokyo
    • “CRITERIUM31” Art Tower Mito / Ibaragi
  • 1994
    • “Looking for the next story”, Gallery Sowaka( Kyoto)
  • 1993
    • The White Casket Art Space Niji( Kyoto)

GROUP SHOW

  • 2018
    • “Dread & Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World”, Weatherspoon Art Museum,
      Greensboro
  • 2017
    • “All The Better To See You With: Fairy Tales Transformed”, The Ian Potter Museum of Art,
      Melbourne
    • “Asia Corridor Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
    • “10 Years Old”, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Modena
  • 2016
    • “Order & Reorder”, National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto (MOMAK), Kyoto
    • “Photographic Support”, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife
  • 2013
    • Group Show, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife
  • 2011
    • Gespenster, Magie und Zauber – Neues Museum – Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Nuremberg
    • ENTROPIA – Philara – Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Dusseldorf
      Be Alive! – Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
    • Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art – Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
  • 2010
    • 10 Jahre PaK – Palais für aktuelle Kunst – Palais für aktuelle Kunst – Kunstverein
      Glückstadt, Glückstadt
    • Tsubaki-kai – Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo.
    • My Favorites – Index of a Certain Collection: Selections from the MoMAK
      Collection – National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto (MOMAK), Kyoto
    • Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH
      Collection – MFAH – Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
    • Great New Wave – Contemporary Art from Japan – Art Gallery of Greater Victoria,
      Victoria, BC.
  • 2009
    • Merry-Go-Round -twinkling and twilight – Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto – CAMK, Kumamoto
    • Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love – Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
    • Golden Agers & Silver Surfers – Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel
      Selections from the Hara Museum – Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
    • 53nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia – La Biennale di
      Venezia, Venice
    • Second Skin – Spazio Paraggi, Treviso
      Der Schmerz sitzt tief – Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim
  • 2008
    • Asian Dub Photography – Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena
      Daegu Photo Biennale 2008 – Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu
    • Inszenierte Wirklichkeit — Ursprung und Gegenwart der japanischen Fotografie – Sammlung March – Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot
      Ein Leben lang / All your life – Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin
    • El don de la vida. En torno al envejecimiento y su representación artística – Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida
    • Great New Wave: Contemporary Art from Japan – Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
      Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan
    • – ICP – International Center of
      Photography, New York City, NY
    • Still / Motion – Liqiud Crystal Painting – NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka
    • Still/Motion – Liquid-crystal Painting – Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu City
    • Sheishedo Gallery. Japón
  • 2007
    • The 30th Anniversary – Collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka – NMAO National
      Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka
    • Global Feminisms – Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY
    • “Tsubaki Kai Ten” Shiseido gallery
      The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
    • I Bienal de Arquitectura, Arte y Paisaje de Canarias
  • 2006
    • 1. Bienal de Canarias – Bienal de Canarias, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
    • All the Best. The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid – Singapore Art Museum,
      Singapore
    • SlowTech – MOCA Taipei, Taipei
      Short Stories – Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, NY
    • Collection 1 – NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka
    • “Gwabgju Biennale: Fever Variations” Gwangju Korea
    • “Chikaku: Perception, Time and Memory in Japan”, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art.
  • 2005
    • “Chikaku”. Tiempo y Memoria en Japon. Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo
    • “Chikaku” Kunsthaus Graz
    • “Growing Old-The forms and Aesthetics of Aging” – Fukushima Museum
    • “Shangai Cool” – Shangai Duolun Museum of Modern Art
    • “Fashion & Style in Photography 2005” – The Museum Moscow House of Photography
  • 2004
    • “Roppongi Crossing New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 2004” Mori Art Museum
      Tokyo
    • “Takarazuka: The Land of Dreams” Suntry Museum, Osaka, Tokyo
    • Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
    • “Self-Portrait Landscape”, Woo Je Gil Museum, Kwangju, Korea
  • 2003
    • “Girls Don’t Cry” Parco Museum, Tokyo.
    • “The History of Japanese Photography” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / Houston
    • “The American Effect” Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
    • “Contemporary Art Exhibition
    • “Du Cote De Chez…”” Eglise Sainte Marie-Madeleine / Lille
      (France)
    • “Kokoro no Arika – Location of the Spirit; Japanese Contemporary Art” Ludwig Museum
      Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art / Budapest
  • 2002
    • “Chameleon Dream- Trans / Forming Identity in Contemporary Japanese Photography”
      Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago
    • “Biennal of Sydney: The World May Be (Fantastic)” / Sydney
      Photo España – Chicas Vs. Abuelas” / Madrid
    • “Future Plan“( Hyogo Prefecrural Museum of Art,Hyogo)
  • 2001
    • “Complicity (Connivence), Biennale of Lyon 2001 Prelude to 2003” / Lyon
    • “YOKOHAMA 2001: International Trienanale of Contemporary Art” / Yokohama
    • “Senritsumirai- Futuro anteriore: Arte Attuale dal Giappone” (Centro per l’arte
      contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy)
    • “Neo-Tokyo : Japanese Art Now” (Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney)
  • 2000
    • “Freeze” (Espaco Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro)
    • “Elysian Fields“ (Centre Pompidou, Paris)
    • “Department Store of Contemporary Art” Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art /
      Yamanashi
    • “Japan medium light” (Montevideo Time Based Arts. Netherlands Media Art Institute /
      Amsterdam)
    • “GENDAI CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ART BETWEEN BODY AND SPACE” The Centre for
      Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (Poland).
  • 1999
    • “The Vision of Contemporary Art’99” The Ueno Royal Museum / Tokyo
    • “Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset” National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
      / Kyoto, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo / Tokyo
    • “A Window, Inside and Outside” Kwangiu City Art Museum, Kwangju
    • “Melbourne International Biennale: Signs of Life” / Melbourne
    • “Fancy Dance-Contemporary Japanese Art After 1990” Art Sonje Museum / Kyongju, Art
      Sonje Center / Seoul.
  • 1998
    • “Subterranean”(Gallery Nikko, Tokyo)
    • “TAIPEI Biennial Site of Desire”(Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei)
    • “Women Photographers from Japan,1864-1997. An Incomplete History” (Visual Studies
      Workshop, Rochester) (USA)
    • “Max Mara Japan Art Collection” Max Mara Japan / Tokyo
    • “Between the Unknown Straits Art Now in Japan and Korea” Meguro Museum of Art /
      Tokyo, The National Museum of Art / Osaka, The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Art
      Center / Seoul
    • TechnoTherapy -produced by Yasumasa Morimura-(Central Public Hall,Osaka)
    • “Tastes and Pursuit Japanese Art in the 1990s” National Museum, New Delhi / New Delhi,
      Metropolitan Museum of Manila / Manila (Philipinas)
  • 1997
    • “Lust und Leere”(Kunsthalle Wien) / Vienna, Arken Museum of Modern Art / Copenhagen,
      Kunsthalle zu Kiel / Kiel (Germany)
    • “Future Recollections” Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art – Kyoto
    • “Du Construit, du Paysage” Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc – Roussillon
      / Sete (France)
    • “Moment Giinza” Forgfabriken/Stockholm (Sweden)
    • “Cities on the Move” Secession / Vienna and World Tour
    • “Legende” Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc Roussillon / Sete (France)
  • 1996
    • “Prospect ‘ 96” Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt / Frankfurt
    • “Art in Flux Oh, My “Japanese Landscapes’?” FUKUOKA ART MUSEUM / Fukuoka
  • 1995
    • “Contemporary Art From Galleries ’95” (Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka)
  • 1994
    • “ART NOW ’94” (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo)