About Miyuki Yokomizo (橫溝美由紀)
Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1968. Miyuki Yokomizo graduated from Tama Art University, Department of Sculpture. Fellow for the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artist’s program. Since the 1990s, Yokomizo began presenting minimalistic installations in Japan and abroad that emphasize time, space, and light, using plastics and other familiar artificial objects. In recent years, she has been attempting to construct new landscapes by combining installation works and two-dimensional works created by reimagining the installation space onto canvas.
Major exhibitions include “criterium 37” (Art Tower Mito, 1998), “Plastic Age: Art and Design” (Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 1998), “Slanting House” (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2002), “Purloined Nature” (Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, 2003), and “Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan” by the Japan Foundation (Travelled in the world, 2004-2019), among others.