Kazuko Miyamoto
Solo Exhibition | June 1–July 13, 2024
Kazuko Miyamoto, Untitled, 1972/73, 117 Hester Street Studios, New York. ©️Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of EXILE, Vienna and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo.
Take Ninagawa is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Kazuko Miyamoto, opening on June 1.
The exhibition will present Miyamoto’s spatial string constructions from the 1970s and ’80s. These include works Miyamoto exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery, the feminist cooperative she cofounded in 1972, and works installed at 117 Hester Street, where she had her live-in studio. A number of works on view are being realized for the first time, providing new perspective on the artist’s visionary practice.
Biography
Born in Tokyo in 1942, Kazuko Miyamoto has been based in New York since 1964. After moving to New York, Miyamoto collaborated with Sol LeWitt while also pursuing her own practice. Responding to LeWitt’s minimalist sculptures and wall drawings, Miyamoto arrived at her signature practice of making modular geometrical installations using cotton string in the early 1970s. Conceived as three-dimensional drawings, the string constructions extend the minimalist line into space while also infusing it with a feminist commentary on women’s work.
A retrospective of Miyamoto’s work will open this September at Belvedere 21, Vienna, after being shown at MADRE, Naples, in 2023. She has also held solo exhibitions at the Japan Society, New York (2022); the Japan Foundation, New Delhi (2015); onetwentyeight, New York (2003, 2009, 2012); and A.I.R. Gallery, New York (1975, 1977–80, 1983).
Miyamoto’s work has been exhibited in thematic surveys at institutions such as the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2021); Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2019); National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2019); Met Breuer, New York (2019); and the National Gallery Singapore (2018).
In addition to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and M+ in Hong Kong, Miyamoto’s work is held in institutional collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Belvedere, Vienna; Daimler Contemporary, Berlin; Lentos Art Museum, Linz; Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, Stuttgart; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Neue Gallerie der Stadt, Linz; Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D. C.; Sol LeWitt Collection, Connecticut; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.