Yuu Miyauchi

Yuu Miyauchi (born 1996, Chiba Prefecture) is a Japanese printmaker whose silkscreen practice investigates the relationship between gestural mark-making and the printmaking process. She earned a B.F.A. in 2021 and an M.F.A. in 2023 from Tama Art University's Painting Department (Printmaking specialization), and serves as a Research Assistant (副手) on the university's Graphic Arts Course.

Her central inquiry concerns what happens when a painter's gestural brush mark is translated into a printmaking matrix and reproduced as a screen-printed edition — work that occupies the conceptual ground between painting and print. Through the medium of printmaking she questions the value of art-making itself. Her recent output favors large-format silkscreen: the five works documented on her Tama Art University faculty profile, produced between 2022 and 2024, range from 530 × 455 mm up to 1303 × 1620 mm and show the consistency of her silkscreen vocabulary across scales.

Miyauchi's competition record is concentrated in the early 2020s. She received an Excellence Award at the 44th National University Printmaking Exhibition, held at the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts (Machida International Print Museum) in December 2019 while still an undergraduate, and the Special Jury Award selected by Tetsuya Oshima at FACE 2023, the Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award open-call exhibition at the SOMPO Museum of Art in Tokyo. In 2025 her work was selected for the 4th PATinKyoto Kyoto Print Art Triennale at the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art.

Her work has also been shown at art gallery closet in the Aoyama/Roppongi area of Tokyo. Within the Japanese contemporary print scene, Miyauchi is among the younger printmakers pursuing the boundary between painting and print as a sustained area of inquiry, and a notable figure in the post-2020 Tama Art University printmaking cohort.