Aiko Miyanaga

Aiko Miyanaga (born 1974) is a contemporary Japanese artist known for sculpture and installation works that give visual form to time by revealing the evidential traces of its passing.

[3][4] In 2014, Miyanaga presented a work entitled "Soramimimisora (Hearing Things)", a sound installation employing ceramics.

In 2015, Miyanaga took part in an exhibition inside the exclusion zone near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant along with Ai Weiwei, Taryn Simon, Meiro Koizumi, Takekawa Nobuaki, Ahmet Öğüt and Trevor Paglen.

The exhibition was not accessible by anyone during the exhibition dates due to unsafe levels of radioactivity in the area[5] Miyanaga was in a two-person show with Albert Yonathan Setyawan in 2018 at Mizuma Gallery, Singapore[6] In 2019, Miyanaga created an installation called "Hair Salon Kotobuki" for Setouchi Triennale in the Seto Inland Sea.

[7] In 2020, Miyanaga featured in an exhibition titled "New View" at Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka[8] In 2020, Miyanaga was due to exhibit at the 2020 Tokyo Biennale, before it was postponed to 2021 following the COVID-19 pandemic.