Education

1968-1969
Pratt Graphics Center, New York City

1964-1968
Art Students League, New York

1962-1964
Gendai Bijutsu Kenkyujo (Contemporary Art Research Studio), Tokyo

Solo exhibitions

2024
Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Eva Fabbris

2023
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy. Curated by Eva Fabbris

2021
Kazuko Miyamoto in Sol LeWitt’s Collection, curated by Dr. Barbara Stehle; Zürcher Gallery, New York

2020
Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2018
Works 1980 – 2018, Zürcher Gallery, New York
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2017
Works 1964-1980, Zürcher Gallery, New York
Four weeks and Fifty-five years, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY curated by Roxana Fabius and Rachael Rakes

2016
Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland. Curated by Matthieu Poirier

2015
Bodily Tactics, Japan Foundation, New Delhi. Curated by Luca Cerizza
Invisible Exports, New York

2012
Kazuko’s Lost Painting, onetwentyeight, New York

2010
Galleria Allesandra Bonomo, Rome

2009
In Search of Lost Time, onetwentyeight, New York

2008
Kunsthalle Krems, Austria

2007
Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy

2004
Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy

2000
Maki Tamura Gallery, Tokyo

1999
55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York

1998
Paradigma, Kunstverein Linz, Austria

1995
Memories of Lost Materials, Keen Gallery, New York
55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York
Behind Paradise Door, onetwentyeight, New York

1992
Kenkeleba House, New York

1990
Keen Gallery, New York

1988
Neue Galerie, Linz, Austria

1985
Brecht Forum, New York
Kenkeleba House, New York

1984
Wheels and Shadow, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York

1983
A.I.R. Gallery, New York

1980
A.I.R. Gallery, New York

1979
A.I.R. Gallery, New York

1978
A.I.R. Gallery, New York

1977
A.I.R. Gallery, New York

1975
A.I.R. Gallery, New York

1973
Museum of Modern Art Penthouse, New York
Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
55 Mercer Gallery, New York

Selected group exhibitions

2021
Windows, curated by Teodora di Robilant, Chiostro di San Nicolò, 64° Festival Dei Due Mondi, Spoleto
Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging – 16 Women Artists from around the World, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Curated by Kataoka Mami & Martin Germann

2020
Exodus V: Aesthetics in the Political, White Box Harlem, NY. Curated by Kyoko Sato
Some Mysterious Process: 50 Years of Collecting International Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
31:Women, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
Group Exhibition, Zürcher Gallery, NYC
Dimensions of Reality, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris. Curated by Anke Kempkes & Pierre-Henri Foulon

2019
Emancipation of Humanity: Focusing on Works by Female Artists, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Home Is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context, Met Breuer, New York
Postwar Women, Art Students League of NY, NYC

2018
Minimalism: Space. Light. Object, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
This Must Be the Place, 55 Walker, New York
Women are very good at crying and they should be getting paid for it, Kaufmann Repetto Gallery, New York

2017
Minimalist Anyway, White Rainbow, London (with Lydia Okumura)
Japan House at Arte SP, Japan House, São Paulo

2016
1970’s: 9 Women and Abstraction, Zürcher Gallery, New York
Beatrice Balcou | Kazuko Miyamoto, L’ISELP, Brussels
Drawing Dialogues, Selections from the Sol LeWitt Collection, Drawing Center, New York

2015
Eppur si muove, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Migrating Forms and Migrating Gods; Kochi Muziris Biennale and Museum of Goa, India. Curated by Valentina Levy

2014
Kimono Show, onetwentyeight, New York
The Pink Gaze, Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, Spoleto & Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale Giuseppe Tucci, Rome (with Atsuko Tanaka, Yoko Ono, and Chiharu Shiota)
Post-Op. Perceptual Gone Painterly 1958-2014, Galerie Perrotin, Paris. Curated by Matthieu Poirier

2013
Holiday Pop-Up Shop, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
57th Street – Now and Then, onetwentyeight, New York (with Jesper Haynes and Fumiko Kashiwagi)
Fukuyama Art Walk 2013, Hiroshima, Japan
Conceptual Tendencies 1960s to Today II: Body, Space, Volume, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin

2012
Drawing Matters, onetwentyeight, New York
25 Years – Anniversary Show: Part 1 & 2, onetwentyeight, New York

2011
Waves… The Tides of Time, onetwentyeight, New York
A Place to Which We Can Come, Abandoned Convent of St. Cecilia, New York
Disaster Relief Show; Juichigatsu Garo, Tokyo, Japan. Curated by Kazuko Miyamoto and Shoko Kanai

2010
Textile Show, onetwentyeight, New York

2009
Kingston Sculpture Biennale; Kingston, NY. Curated by Judy Pfaff

2008
Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
Original Bag, onetwentyeight, New York

2007
Black & White, Lentos Art Museum, Linz, Austria
Japanese Melting Point-2B; 2B Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2006
femme brut(e), Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut
Where We Are, onetwentyeight, New York

2005
Art From Detritus, Gallery MERZ, Sag Harbor, New York

2001
Woman and Children in Solidarity with the Afghan Women’s Mission, onetwentyeight, New York. Curated by Angela Valeria and Kazuko Miyamoto
Gerald Jackson and Kazuko Miyamoto, Maki-Tamura Gallery, Tokyo

1999
Drawn from Artists’ Collections, Drawing Center, New York

1998
Contrasts, Brooklyn Brewery, New York
In-Sites IV: Opening the Streetscape/School to Community; proposals by Lower East Side Artists, Henry St. Settlement Abrons Art Center, New York
Material Girls, onetwentyeight, New York

1995
Art from Detritus, Massman Gallery of Rockhurst College, Kansas, Missouri; Henry St. Settlement Abrons Art Center, New York
On the Line, Selections from the LeWitt Family Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Nature, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
In Your Face: Politics of Body and Personal Knowledge, AC Project Room, New York
Bleaching Containment, Gallery Three Zero, New York
The New World Order III, Curio Shop, Artists Space, New York
Kenkeleba House Gallery, New York
Open Mind: The LeWitt Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

1989
Asian-American Artists, onetwentyeight, New York
Running Out of Time, onetwentyeight, New York

1988
Father, Asian American Art Center, New York
Six Contemporary Sculptors, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey

1987
Reconstruction Project, Museum of Chinese in America, New York

1985
Asian Artists in New York, A’ Gallery, New York

1984
Art Against Apartheid, Henry St. Settlement, New York (organized by Nancy Spero)
Stick and Stone, Kenkeleba House, New York
Tokyo – Hong Kong – New York, Kenkeleba House, New York
Exchange of Sources: Expanding Sources, California State University Stanislaus, Turlock
O.I.A at Green Space: Sculpture, Green Space, New York

1983
Non-Affiliated Artists, C.W. Post College, Long Island, New York

1982
Cric Crac, Franklin Furnace, New York (with Charles Abrahams)
Contemporary Drawings, Larry Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
All’s Fair: Love and War, Ohio State University, Columbus
December Show, Kwok Gallery, New York
Beauty, ABC No Rio, New York
Five Artists, Binibon, New York
Special Omelettes, Binibon, New York

1981
Isamu Ishikawa and Friends, Nissin Gallery, Tokyo
Five Elements, Kenkeleba House, New York
A.I.R. Goes to Sweden, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden

1980
Art Across the Park, Central Park, New York
Wards Island Sculpture Garden, Wards Island, New York
Dialects of Isolation, A.I.R. Gallery, New York. Curated by Ana Mendieta and Kazuko Miyamoto

1979
Three Outdoor Sculptures, Roosevelt Public Library, New York
Recent Acquisitions: American Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New York
A Great Big Drawing Show, MoMA PS1, New York

1978
Works of A.I.R. Artists, Ginza Kaigakan, Tokyo (participated and curated by Kazuko Miyamoto)
Kazuko Miyamoto & Denise Green, Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
Tut in Town, Nobe Gallery, New York
Art Forum Show, MoMA PS1, New York
Five Artists Changing, Franklin Marshall College, New York
Contemporary Selections, C.W. Post College, Long Island City, New York
Installations, Nobe Gallery, New York (with Lydia Okumura and Cecile Abish)
Overview: Five Years of A.I.R., MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York

1977
Fiber Workers: North and South Americas and Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Wall Works, Alternative Center for International Arts, New York
Custom and Culture, U.S. Customs House, New York
Ginza Kaigakan, Tokyo (catalog by Lawrence Alloway)

1976
Soho, New York, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

1975
John Weber Gallery Invitational Show, John Weber Gallery, New York

1974
New York 11, C.W. Post Center Gallery, Long Island, New York

1973
Wall Works, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York
Images, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1972
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York
13 Women Artists, Women’s Ad Hoc Committee, 117-119 Prince St., New York (with Louise Bourgeois, Loretta Dunkelman, Pat Lasch, Patsy Norvell and Joyce Robins)
Ten Artists Who Happen to Be Women, Michael C. Rockefeller Art Center Gallery, State University of New York, Albany

1971
Four Artists, Pace University, New York

Selected installations

2013
Garden Installation, Hofkabinet, Linz, Austria

2009
Kingston Biennial; Kingston, New York
Vision Festival; Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York

2008
Factory; Kunst Halle, Krems, Austria

1999
Nordic World Ski Championship: Outdoor Sculpture Show, Ramsau am Dachstein, Austria

1989
Outdoor Piece, Good Gustail, Linz, Austria

1982-1983
Artist in Residence, Bryant Park, New York

1979
Breaking in, 9th Precinct, New York

Selected performances & stage sets

2014
Improvisation on a black bird (with Maria Elena Curzi), Performance Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, Spoleto

2008
Vision Festival XIII, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York 2007

2007
Kazuko Dances at Nancy Spero’s studio, Nancy Spero Studio, New York
Stream and Green Tea- dance collaboration with Patricia Parker and William Parker, Teatro LaTea, New York

2006
Nexus03/Vision06, Vision Festival, New York (with Gloria McLean and Ellen Christie)

2004
Umbrella Dance, Lodz Biennale, Poland
Life Dance, collaboration with Gloria McLean Life Dance Co., Andes, New York
Untitled, collaboration with Gerald Jackson and Toki Osaki, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York

1997
How to Be a Perfect Woman, collaboration with Vernita N’Cognita and Billy Bang, onetwentyeight, New York
Her Father; collaboration with Gloria McLean Life Dance Co., Tenri Art and Squid Dance Studio, New York

1989
Shadows and Puppets, ABC No Rio, New York

1983
Waiting for the Carnival, New York

Selected public commission

1978
College of Optometry, State University of New York, New York

Selected residencies

2011
Eleanor, Winterhafen, Artist Residency, Linz, Austria

2008
Kunsthalle Krems, Austria

1982
Artist in Residence in Bryant Park, Public Art Fund, New York

Selected awards & grants

2006
Federico II, Premio Internazionale di Pittura; Bari and Palermo, Italy

2003
Francis J. Greenburger Foundation Award, US

1979-80
National Endowment for the Arts, CAPS, US

Selected  collections

Guggenheim Museum, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Sol LeWitt Collection, Connecticut
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
Belvedere, Vienna
Lentos Art Museum, Linz, Austria
Neue Gallerie der Stadt, Linz, Austria
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Selected publications

2019
Modern and Contemporary Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

2018
Kazuko Miyamoto in New York City, Works from 1964 to the Present, by Zürcher Gallery New York / Paris

2016
Moore, Sabra, Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City, 1970-1992, New Village Press, New York

2015
Kazuko Miyamoto. Published by EXILE

2011
Boat, (a film with Georg Ritter), Linz, Austria

2010
Made in the U. S. A.: Modern/Contemporary Art in America, iUniverse, Bloomington, Indiana

2007
Artist’s Portfolio, La Fabrica, Matador, Madrid

1997
Auntie Art, CD, Mixed Sound and Poetry, collaboration with Kurt Novak and others

1990
.Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America, Pantheon, New York

1977
Catalog by Lawrence Alloway; Ginza Kaigakan, Tokyo

Selected reviews & press

2021
Jennifer Krasinski, “Kazuko Miyamoto, Zürcher Gallery, NY”, Artforum (May)
Jillian Steinhauer, ”4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now”, New York Times (Feb 26)

2019
Jonathan Goodman, “Postwar Women” (Artseen), The Brooklyn Rail (Nov)
Art Students League to Present Landmark ‘Post-War Women’ Exhibition, ArtfixDaily
Emily Sun, ”Decolonizing Western Narratives of Modern Art”, Hyperallergic (Sept 26)
Frieze New York Opens, Artforum (May 1)
Laura Pitcher, “8 things to look forward to at Frieze’s eight edition”, I-D (Apr 29)

2018
Jennifer Pastore, ”10 Things in Tokyo: October 2018”, Tokyo Art Beat
Jillian Steinhauer, “A Gallery catches up on Unfinished Business”, New York Times (Apr 24)

2017
John Yau, ”The Incessant Art of Kazuko Miyamoto”, Hyperallergic (Oct 15)
Paul Carey-Kent, “‘The One with LeWitt’: Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN 214”, FAD Magazine

2016
Thomas Michelli, “Another Hidden Chapter of ’70s Abstraction”, Hyperallergic

2014
Invisible-Exports, Artforum

2009
Kunst aus Fäden, Welt am Sonntag, Germany

2005
Art From Detritus, East Hampton Star (Nov 10)

2004
Lodz Biennale,” Art in America
Quando la Material si Rifa lo Spirito, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno (May 20)

1998
Dunning, Jennifer, New York Times (July 25)

1984
Glueck, Grace, New York Times (December 28)
Silverthorne, Jean “Review – Midsummer Night’s Dream” Artforum, (Jan, pp.74)

1980
Cohen, Ronny H. “Reviews – New York City” Artforum, (Oct, pp.75)

1979
Heit, Janet “Reviews” Arts Magazine, May, pp.16

Other activities

1986-present
Director, onetwentyeight, New York City

1973-1983
Member of A.I.R. Gallery, New York City