Miho Morinoue

Miho Kanani Morinoue is a Hawaii-based visual artist and arts educator who lives and works in Holualoa on the Big Island of Hawaii. Raised by two visual artists, Hiroki and Setsuko Morinoue, she grew up immersed in art and dance, eventually pursuing a career that bridges both disciplines.

Before focusing on visual art, Morinoue had a ten-year career with Complexions Contemporary Ballet Co. in New York City, and her costume designs have been represented by numerous prestigious dance companies including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ballet Arizona, BalletMet, North Carolina Dance Theatre, and Pittsburgh Ballet.

As a printmaker, Morinoue works in lithography and mokuhanga, continuing her family's tradition of Japanese woodblock printing that her father Hiroki Morinoue has championed in Hawaii for decades. Her lithograph 'Deluvium' (2018), printed by Shark's Ink, was acquired by the Davis Museum at Wellesley College. Her art can also be found in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Davis Museum at Wellesley College.

Since 2005, she has been a teaching artist for the Holualoa Foundation for Arts and Culture, also known as the Donkey Mill Art Center, where she is currently the Youth and Adult Program Coordinator. Her work is represented by Studio 7 Fine Arts in Holualoa and was featured in the 'Enduring Impressions: Contemporary Woodblock Prints' exhibition at the Honolulu Museum of Art (2025) and Portland Japanese Garden (2026).