Miyuki Oka
artist / researcher
b.1994 Sapporo, JAPAN
okamiyuki21[at]gmail.com / IG
I work with an interest in how meaning and context are reconfigured through the rearrangement of objects and data. Drawing from the material and symbolic qualities of technology, my practice engages with the relationships between place, time, knowledge, and the body.
Solo Shows
– In-situ zettai, Kuma Gallery, Tokyo JP, Aug-Sep 2024
– Grade separation, ku-kan, Sapporo JP, July 2024
– Borrowed sleep / taking photos (000000-235959, 20210224-20230224), BUoY Arts Center, Tokyo JP, Oct 2023
– Sweep the box, Make a garden, Niiwa building, Sapporo JP, May 2021
Group Shows
– yukidokeru, Sapporo Odori 500m Underground Walkway Gallery, Sapporo JP, Jan-Mar 2025
– THANK YOU!, Slavs and Tatars Pickle Bar, Berlin DE, Oct 2023
– first exhibition, Zero Chiten, Sapporo JP, July 2023
– Theater der Welt (Landing / UNITED INSTITUTES), Hafen 2 / Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main DE, June-July 2023
– RUNDGANG, Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main DE, Feb 2023
– Fortune comes in by a merry gate, Sapporo Odori 500m Underground Walkway Gallery, Sapporo JP, Nov 2022-Jan 2023
– Our Bio-Tech Planet: Future of Plants and Humans, Botanical Garden Rome, Art Science Node, Rome IT, Oct 2022
– Rimokon, Artothek & Bildersaal, Munich DE, Sep-Oct 2022
– Künstlerische Projekte rund um den Olympiasee, Olympiapark München, Munich DE, July 2022
– City to City: PLAY!, UNESCO Creative Cities Network of Media Arts, Online, Jan 2022
– With Others at a Long Distance, Sapporo Cultural Arts Community Center SCARTS, Sapporo JP, Sep-Oct 2021
– KUMA EXHIBITION 2021, KUMA Foundation, Online, Mar 2021
– neither yet exposed nor witnessed, Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, Sapporo JP, Jan 2021
– RCA 2020, Royal College of Art, Online, July 2020
– WIP Show, Garden House, Royal College of Art, London UK, Jan 2020
– Grantham Art Prize Exhibition, RCA Dyson Gallery, London UK, Sep 2019
– Great Exhibition Road Festival 2019, Imperial College, London UK, July 2019
Award
– Grand Prix, WIRED Creative Hack Award, 2021, WIRED JP
– STRP Award for Creative Technology (ACT), 2020, STRP NL
– Grantham Art Prize, 2018, Grantham Institute (Imperial College London) & Royal College of Art UK
Fellowship / Residency
– Residence Program, 2026 (upcoming), Tokyo Arts and Space, JP
– Residence Program Art Material Cycling “shukatsu” with treibgut, 2024, Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, JP
– Fellowship, 2023, KUMA Foundation, JP
– Residence Program, 2022, Villa Waldberta, Artist in Residence Munich, DE
– Online Residence Program, 2021, “City to City 2021”, UNESCO
– Residence Program, 2021, Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, JP
– Scholarship, 2020, KUMA Foundation, JP
– Fellowship (JASSO Postgraduate Study), 2018-2020, Japan Student Service Association, JP
Education / Affiliation
– Musashino Art University, Research Fellow, 2024-
– Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule (Guest, Cohabitation/Prof. Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius), 2022-2023
– Royal College of Art, MA Information Experience Design, 2018-2020
– Hokkaido University, BSc.(Agr.) Bioscience and Chemistry (Grade Average: A), 2014-2018 ResearchGate
Talk / Interview / Other
– Interview (JP), Media Arts Current Contents 久保田晃弘 芸術と技術の100年対談 (Feb 2024)
– Exhibition Interview (EN/RU), Gendai Eye at syg.ma, Sign Of The Times: Borrowed Sleep (Dec 2023)
– Exhibition Interview (JP), 活動支援生インタビュー Vol.49 岡 碧幸 「戦争と1日——観察の条件を変えることで伝わってくるもの」 (Nov 2023)
– Award Article (JP) , WIRED JP (Dec 2021)
– Interview (JP), SCARTS (Sep 2021)