Biography
Raita Miyadera (宮寺雷太, born 1971, Tokyo) is a Japanese printmaker and educator working primarily in mokuhanga (Japanese water-based woodblock printing) and silkscreen. He completed an MFA in Painting/Printmaking at Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo Geidai) Graduate School in 1999, and has been a long-standing member of the Japan Print Association and the Print Study Society.
Miyadera's exhibition record begins with his 1998 selection for the 23rd National University Print Exhibition (Acquisition Prize), and continues through the 2001 Fukumitsu Munakata Memorial Print Prize Exhibition (Encouragement Prize), the 2005 Hida-Takayama Contemporary Woodblock-Prints Triennial (Encouragement Prize), the 2011 3rd NBC Meshtec Silkscreen International Print Biennial (Grand Prize), and the 2012 Adachi Contemporary Ukiyo-e Award (Honorable Mention). The combination of mokuhanga prizes (Hida-Takayama, Adachi Ukiyo-e) and silkscreen prizes (NBC Meshtec) reflects his sustained dual technical commitment to both traditional Japanese woodblock printing and contemporary silkscreen.
In 2001 he participated in the Nagasawa Art Park residency in Hyogo Prefecture, an artist-in-residence water-based woodblock program for international mokuhanga artists that preceded MI-LAB. In 2002 he undertook the Lake St. Clair Residency in Tasmania, Australia.
A collaborative project produced with the printmaker and lacquer artist Hashimoto Haruka has translated Miyadera's woodblock and ukiyo-e visual vocabulary onto dry-lacquer folding trays and small decorative plates, with titles such as 'ずれた' (Shifted), 'もんもんもん,' 'らくがき' (Scribbles), and 'Atomic.' This dry-lacquer production line is documented through the Tokyo Geidai Art Plaza, the university's official commercial channel.
Miyadera maintains websites at miyaderaraita.jp and at raitamiyadera.jimdofree.com. He is recognised as an Associate Member of the Japan Print Association (Nihon Hanga Kyokai) and a member of the Print Study Society — two of the principal Japanese contemporary-print professional societies. Within the contemporary Japanese mokuhanga community he is one of the active mid-career practitioners whose work straddles the international print biennial circuit and the domestic Japanese print society apparatus, with a parallel decorative-craft practice that translates his print vocabulary into functional object form.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1971
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
Frequently Asked Questions
Raita Miyadera (宮寺雷太, born 1971, Tokyo) is a Japanese printmaker and educator working primarily in mokuhanga (Japanese water-based woodblock printing) and silkscreen. He completed an MFA in Painting/Printmaking at Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo Geidai) Graduate School in 1999, and has been a long-standing member of the Japan Print Association and the Print Study Society.
Raita Miyadera was active born in 1971. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Raita Miyadera's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.