Miyuki Oka
Born 1994, Sapporo, Japan. Graduated from Hokkaido University, Faculty of Agriculture, and completed MA at Royal College of Art, UK. Focusing on the context deconstructed and meaning generated by the reordering of things, she creates installations and videos, as well as experimental design and performative interventions. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘borrowed sleep / taking photos (000000-235959, 20210224-20230224)’ (BUoY Arts Center Tokyo, 2023), and group exhibitions ‘Theater der Welt (United Institute)’ (Hafen 2 / Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, 2023), ‘Künstlerische Projekte rund um den Olympiasee’ (Olympiapark, 2022) and ‘With Others at a Long Distance’ (Sapporo Cultural Arts Community Center SCARTS, 2021).
okamiyuki21[at]gmail.com / IG
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The main interest of my practice is to use the way computers perceive the world to see the real, continuous time and space as a mass of discrete, interconnected data. In doing so, my work seeks to deconstruct the already existing political narratives and produce a more material and concrete poetry.
Solo Shows
– 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
– 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 Art Material Cycling “shukatsu” with treibgut, 2024, Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, JP
– Creator Fellowship, 2023, KUMA Foundation, JP
– Residence Program, 2022, Villa Waldberta, Artist in Residence Munich, DE
– “City to City 2021” Online Residence Program, 2021, UNESCO
– Residence Program, 2021, Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, JP
– Creator Scholarship, 2020, KUMA Foundation, JP
– JASSO Postgraduate Study Fellowship, 2018-2020, Japan Student Service Association, JP
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)
– Artist Talk (JP), Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio (Feb 2021)
– Exhibition Article (EN), Grantham Art Prize (April 2019)
Education / Affiliation
– Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule (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
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