Biography
Yukino Miyata (宮田雪乃, born 1986 in Mie Prefecture) is a Japanese printmaker whose small-format practice pairs finely drawn intaglio (drypoint) linework with vivid screen-printed colour, treating everyday domestic moments as points where personal and social identities momentarily realign. She trained at Kyoto City University of Arts, where she completed graduate study, and she continues to live and work in Mie Prefecture.
Miyata was selected for the 4th PATinKyoto Print Art Triennale 2025, held April 15 – May 11, 2025 at the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art — a print triennial that fills its roster through a recommender system, for which she was put forward by the curator Yumiko Tatematsu of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Her mature work centres on small drypoint plates worked over multiple states, with selective silkscreen overlays adding controlled colour, so that the finished sheets read as brightly coloured and almost painterly while retaining the light, drawing-like impression of the intaglio line.
Her exhibition history is organised around small-scale shows at Tokyo and Kyoto galleries, including a continuing relationship with LEESAYA (Tokyo), where she presented the solo exhibition "Subdivision Questions" (枝分かれのQ, June 22 – July 21, 2024) and took part in the gallery's Spring Show (April 12 – May 4, 2025) alongside Tatsuhito Nifuji and Kyoko Yasuhara. In 2024 she was also featured in a two-person exhibition ("再生活") at the Otomuro Museum in Mie Prefecture (May 18–26, 2024), and her work appeared in the magazine BRUTUS (July 1, 2024, No. 1010) in a feature on small-scale art and living.
Within the contemporary Japanese print scene, Miyata reads as a sustained drypoint specialist whose small-format pieces sit comfortably in both the print-triennial context and the domestic-scale collector market, her training at Kyoto City University of Arts translating into a recognisable mature voice.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1986
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Works Indexed
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yukino Miyata (宮田雪乃, born 1986 in Mie Prefecture) is a Japanese printmaker whose small-format practice pairs finely drawn intaglio (drypoint) linework with vivid screen-printed colour, treating everyday domestic moments as points where personal and social identities momentarily realign. She trained at Kyoto City University of Arts, where she completed graduate study, and she continues to live and work in Mie Prefecture.
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.