Kazuko Miyamoto is a Japanese-born American visual and performance artist based in New York City, associated with feminist art, minimalism, and postminimalism.
11 Facts About Kazuko Miyamoto
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Kazuko Miyamoto was born in wartime Tokyo, Japan in 1942.
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That same year, Kazuko Miyamoto emigrated to New York, where she began four years of study at the Arts Student League, graduating in 1968.
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Kazuko Miyamoto then studied printmaking at the Pratt Graphic Art Center for a year.
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In 1969, Kazuko Miyamoto began a longtime association with the American minimalist artist Sol LeWitt, working for many years as his personal assistant.
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From 1972 to 1979, Kazuko Miyamoto embarked on perhaps her most famous set of works, a breakthrough series of sculptural installations known as String Constructions.
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Kazuko Miyamoto began undertaking artistic performances in various states of dress and undress, which she would continue to carry out periodically throughout her career.
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In 1983, inspired by the sight of a swan's nest and her experience of her own pregnancy, Kazuko Miyamoto's art shifted in a new direction, in which she would create large sculptural pieces that wove together tree branches with brown paper that she twisted to look like large ropes.
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From 1987 and continuing into the mid-2000s, Kazuko Miyamoto began a new series, Kimono, in which she would create Japanese-style kimono garments out of a wide variety of materials, incorporating social commentary, feminist critique, and personal narrative by printing, writing, or attaching various objects, images, or narratives to the garments.
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Kazuko Miyamoto has been recognized in numerous solo exhibitions at both public and private institutions.
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Kazuko Miyamoto's works are in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, the Lentos Art Museum, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others.