Biography
Yukino Miyata (born 1986, Mie Prefecture) is a Japanese printmaker whose practice combines drypoint intaglio with silkscreen on small-format paper sheets, treating everyday domestic moments as turning points where personal and social identities momentarily realign. Her 2022 work 《根の家》(Roots House / The Root House), a 232 x 210 mm drypoint and silkscreen piece in ink on paper, was selected for the 4th PATinKyoto Print Art Triennale 2025. The PATinKyoto recommender is curator Yumiko Tatematsu of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
Miyata's training is rooted in the Kyoto print tradition: she completed her BFA in Information Printmaking at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2010, then continued at the same institution to receive an MA in Fine Arts (Painting) in 2012. The Information Printmaking specialisation at Kyoto City University of Arts is one of the more methodical printmaking programs in Japan, emphasising both traditional intaglio technique and contemporary print theory. The subsequent shift to a Painting MA reflects her interest in the boundary between two-dimensional pictorial composition and reproducible-image production — a dialectic that has remained central to her work.
The mature practice centres on small drypoint plates worked over multiple states, with selective silkscreen overlays adding controlled colour. The 'Roots House' piece is representative: a tightly composed depiction of a domestic scene in which the literal architectural reading (a small house) and a metaphoric reading (the underground roots that anchor a place) coexist. The PATinKyoto recommender notes that Miyata's work 'pulls us back to reflection points' where everyday moments hold numerous turning points and 'unexplored ideas or processes.'
Miyata's exhibition history is organised around small-scale solo shows at Tokyo and Kyoto galleries, including a recurring relationship with LEESAYA gallery (Tokyo), where she presented the solo show 'Subdivision Questions' (June 22 – July 21, 2024) and the 2025 Spring Show (April 12 – May 4, 2025). Earlier she was featured in the 2024 group show 'Resurgence' with Kotao Kanemitsu at the Otomuro Museum, Mie Prefecture, and her work has been featured in the magazine BRUTUS (July 1, 2024, Issue 1010) in a feature on small-scale art and living. She also runs hiyomi circle as a personal-project label for collaborations and editions.
Miyata's positioning within the contemporary Japanese print scene is as a sustained mid-career drypoint specialist whose small-format pieces sit comfortably both in the print-triennial context and in the smaller domestic-scale collector market. The visible online presence (miyatayukino.com, info@miyatayukino.com) and gallery affiliation with LEESAYA mark her as a stable working artist whose 2010s training is now translating into a recognisable mature voice.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1986
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Subjects
- Silkscreen
- Works Indexed
- 1
Frequently Asked Questions
Yukino Miyata (born 1986, Mie Prefecture) is a Japanese printmaker whose practice combines drypoint intaglio with silkscreen on small-format paper sheets, treating everyday domestic moments as turning points where personal and social identities momentarily realign. Her 2022 work 《根の家》(Roots House / The Root House), a 232 x 210 mm drypoint and silkscreen piece in ink on paper, was selected for the 4th PATinKyoto Print Art Triennale 2025. The PATinKyoto recommender is curator Yumiko Tatematsu of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
Yukino Miyata was active born in 1986. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Yukino Miyata'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.
Yukino Miyata's prints frequently feature silkscreen.