Eriko Miyata was born in 1993. She studied in the Department of Intermedia Arts at the Tokyo University of the Arts, and as a master student at the Fine Arts Department of the Zurich University of the Arts, where she received her MFA in July 2020. She has participated in academic research workshops at Shiv Nadar University in Delhi and City University of Hong Kong.
Her work «disguise» has exhibitied in «OFF GRID» in Vienna (2022), «SCREEN» at La Nuu The Rubí International Photography Festival (2022), and she had the solo exhbiition «disguise» in Nikon Salon in Tokyo, Japan (2022), which was awarded the Ina Nobuo Award.
The photo series «disguise» was also awarded Grand Prix at the IMA next «OTHER HISTORIES» by Simon Baker, who is the director of Maison Européenne de la Photographie, and the Grand Prix at PITCH GRANT organised by Kosuke Okahara, as a result of visitors' votes in Kyoto in 2022.
Also her new work «Alchemy» is awarded the Antonio Scoccimarro Award in the JAPAN PHOTO AWARD Vol.10 in 2023, and will exhibit at Hotel Anteroom Kyoto as KG+ exhibition within Kyotographeie in Kyoto, Japan.
Education
2018 - 2020 MFA Zürcher Hochschule der Künste,CH
2012 - 2017 BA Tokyo University of the Arts,JP
2015 - 2016 Bauhaus Universität Weimar,DE
Grants / Awards
2023 Japan Photo Award Antonio Scoccimarro Award
2023 Ina Nobuo Award
2022 Fachausschuss Film und Medien Kunst, Kanton Basel-Stadt Kanton Basellandschaft
2022 IMA next "OTHER HISTORIES" Grand Prix
2021 - 2022 Pitch Grant Grand Prix
2017 - 2020 Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation Scholarship
2015 - JASSO Scholarship at TU Berlin
2015 - JASSO Scholarship at Bauhaus Universität Weimar
Exhibitions / Festivals
2023 - KG+ Kyotographie Japan Photo Award vol.10, Hotel Anteroom,Kyoto, JP
2023 - Exhibition of annual award, Solo Exhibition,"disguise",Nikon Salon, Tokyo,JP
2023 - FAS 2022, Fujisawa City Art Space, Fujisawa, JP
2022 - IMA next EXHIBITON 02, Space Lucida, Tokyo, JP
2022 - Solo Exhibition "disguise", Nikon Salon, Tokyo, JP
2022 - SCREEN, La Nuu Rubí International Photography Festival, Rubí, ES
2022 - OFF GRID,GREEN DOOR artist & space gallery, Vienna, AT
2020 - Young Perspective 2020, Image Forum Tokyo, JP
2019 - Jungkunst 13 Winterthur, Halle 53, CH
2019 - The Winter Show, Kali Gallery, CH
2018 - Manifesta12 Interspecies Multispecies Salon,Palermo Botanical Garden,IT
2017 - Tokyo University of the Ars Graduation exhibition, JP
Press
PITCH GRANT https://www.thebackyard.jp/miyata-eriko-2021-grantee
IMA online https://imaonline.jp/news/contest/20220317/ https://imaonline.jp/news/contest/20221201/
Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation Scholarhip https://www.recruit-foundation.org/activity_report/post-2880/