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| MIYOSHI, YURIKO | http://kami-gatari.blogspot.com/ |
| 1962 | Born in Osaka, Japan |
1985
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B.F.A. at Tokyo Zokei University Art & Design (JP)
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1989
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M.F.A. at Musashino Art University (JP)
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1989, 1991
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Encouragement Prize of Shunyo-kai (JP)
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1990
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1st Prize of Shunyo-kai (JP)
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1991-1994
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Member of Shunyo-kai (JP)
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1992-2007
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Member of Japan Print Association (JP)
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1993-2009
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Member of Printsaurus International Print Exchange Association (JP)
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1994
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Internship for Artists under the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan; Study about photo-etching in JP
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2008-2009
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Fellowship under the Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists; Study in NL & DE
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1992-
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Member of Japan Artists Association
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2003-
2018
| Working base in the Netherlands and further extending her printmaking network in Japan and Europe.
Now as freelance artist, traveling back and forth between Japan and Europe many times, she is introducing Japanese culture via her demonstration, workshops and lectures. |
Since 1985 her works are exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Japan and in foreign countries. Solo exhibitions were in Tokyo, Nagoya, Yamanashi, Hamamatsu in Japan, Antwerp in Belgium, Dordrecht in the Netherlands, etc. Her works are in private and public collections such as the British Museum (London, UK), Lithuanian Art Museum (Vilnius, Lithuania), Art Gallery of Kaliningrad (Russia), Gallery of the Municipal Museum of Art (Gyor, Hungary), etc.
As a member of Printsaurus, she has organized a number of International Print Exchange projects together with other artists and has participated in several International Print Exchange Exhibitions, such as in Japan, Korea, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, England, Czech, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia and Portugal.
http://yuriko_mi.tripod.com/Printsaurus/
In 2002 she accompanied Ad Stijnman who is a printmaker and also a print historian for his research of etching works by Aôdô Denzen at Sukagawa City Museum in Fukushima. Started Research project “Copper-plate printmaking, the relation between Japan and Europe”.
She is a genuine printmaker (etcher). She makes unique copy-etchings, a technique developed by herself, using images of maps and music as elements on copper plates. She makes special refined works in which several themes, such as travel, musical instruments, maps, memories. She gathers various image data together into a new image. Since 2002 in her Land-Series in this manner, she created a new reality of Japan, the Netherlands and other countries; the Dutch landscape viewed through Japanese eyes and translated into beautiful colour etchings.
In collaboration with Ad Stijnman she made three prints after the Great Earthquake in eastern Japan on 11 March, 2011. The Sakura (cherry blossom) and the colors in these prints are soothing with hope that all will be well again.
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Yuriko Miyoshi
Printmaker > hanga-land.blogspot.com
Papermaker > kami-gatari.blogspot.com
Her first travelling to abroad was to attend the opening for the exhibition ‘Contemporary Japanese prints’ at the British Museum in 1985. Then her work became one of the collection of this Museum.
She has organized a number of International Print Exchange projects together with other artists, also with Galleries and Museums and has participated in several International Print Exchange Exhibitions. Since 2003 her working base is in the Netherlands as a freelance artist. And further she is extending her own printmaking network in Japan and in Europe. In 2018 traveling back and forth between Japan and Europe many times, she introduced Japanese culture via her demonstration, workshops and lectures.
Using her unique copy-etching technique, she makes very fine work in which several themes: travel, musical instruments, maps, memories, seen through Japanese eyes and translated into wonderful colour etchings on Japanese paper. In her recent works you can see the special universes with jigsaw-puzzle copper plates.
Sometime she makes also her unique handmade papers for her art works.
Recently she is getting several opportunities to offer the Japanese culture information on printmaking and papermaking world in Workshop and Market’s stand at several locations, especially about Japanese traditional woodcut printing technique.
She studied various printmaking techniques at Tokyo Zokei University (BFA) and at Musashino Art University (MFA) both in Tokyo. She was a fellowship artist from 2008 until 2009 under the Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists to study in the Netherlands and in Germany.
(up date text 6 December 2018)
-------------------- Text 2016 for Gouda
Gallery makes you extra happy with Japanese printmaking talent!
You can see some selected works by Yuriko Miyoshi.
She makes very fine work in which several themes come forward: travel, musical instruments, maps, memories, seen through Japanese eyes and translated into wonderful colour etchings on Japanese paper. Rembrandt also loved to use Japanese paper for his etchings. Yuriko makes some woodcut in the Japanese Ukiyo-e technique. She developed her copy-etching technique by herself. Unique pieces with beautiful paper and in color.
Yuriko Miyoshi is a printmaker (etcher) pur sang. She has a Japanese Master degree in the fine arts (MA). From 1985 ‘her travelling with her print works’ began. She has participated in and curated various International Print Projects, such as in Japan, Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, Italy, the Baltic states, Russia and the Netherlands. She also participated in ‘Opera Grafica’ at Museum Het Catharina Gasthuis te Gouda (now MuseumGoudA) in 2004. Yuriko's prints are kept in private collections and in public collections such as the British Museum in London.
In Gouda you can find works by Yuriko at Galerie De Hollandsche Maagd, at Hans den Hollander Prints and also at De Drukkerswerkplaats Gouda in the public library, which was specially made for the book ‘De Steken’ written by Sasja Janssen in 2014.
For more information about Yuriko Miyoshi visit here: http://hanga-land.blogspot.com/
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