Biography

Exhibitions

2012
The 23rd Garyuzakura Japanese Painting Grand Prize Exhibition, The Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Japan

The 1st Mirai-no-Shukakusai “The Harvest Festival of the future”, Gifu, Japan
2013
The 12th Sato Taisei Prize Art Exhibition, Aichi, Japan
2014
Art Aoi Iwami, Art Universities Scholarship Exhibition of Japanese Paintings, Japan

The 16th Setsuryosha-Firenze Prize Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan

The 50th Kanagawa Art Exhibition, Japan
2015
Solo Debut, Fujiya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Joint Graduation Exhibition of 5 Art Universities, The National Art Center Tokyo, Japan (’17)

50 FACES, Reijinsha Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Soleil, Surugadai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Shinsei Art Exhibition, Shinseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

INTRO4, Exhibition of Younger Generation Artists-selected by Fuyuhiko Yamamoto, Tokyo, Japan

Shibuya Style vol.9, Tokyo, Japan

The 22nd Sesshu International Art Society Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

Ayane Mikagi, – faraway –, Art Space 88, Tokyo, Japan
2016
Roppongi Art Week, Tokyo, Japan

FACE 2016, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

The 3rd “Hi no Kai” Exhibition, Inoue Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Binan-ga Exhibition, Gallery Tomo, Tokyo, Japan

EAF Monaco, Monaco

Art Taipei, Taiwan

Art Miami, USA (’17, ’18, ’19)
2017
TEFAF Maastricht, The Netherlands (’18, ’19, ’20, ’22)

Group Exhibition, Ginza Art Hall, Tokyo, Japan

The Sound that Seeps, Art Space Rashinban, Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan

The Sound of Wings, KURUM’ART / space2, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan

Growing Wings, Ayane Mikagi, Gallery Tomo, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Seattle Art Fair, USA

Group Exhibition, Sato Sakura Museum, Tokyo, Japan

-one step beyond-, Silkland Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

The 5th Future Exhibition, Galerie Nichido, Tokyo, Japan

Tama Art University Research Associate Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

Arte de Noir, Seibu Shibuya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
2019
jamais vu – Ayane Mikagi, Seibu Shibuya Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

sumika – Ayane Mikagi, Fujiya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

anone. – Ayane Mikagi, KURUM’ART / space2, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan

Masterpiece London, UK

The Way of Paintings 2019, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

The 21st Setsuryosha-Firenze Prize Exhibition, Setsuryosha Meuseum of Art / Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
2020
Opening Ceremony, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

Victory Bouquet Exhibition, Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

recommend -2020-, Silkland Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

nine colors XIV, Seibu Shibuya Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Permanent Key –, Court Gallery Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan
2021
Art Fair Tokyo, Japan (’22)

The Secret Show, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

Nihonga Renaissance, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

RE:OPENING CEREMONY, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

ART 021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, China

SEASONAL ART – #Phase 4 –, Hotel Metropolitan Kawasaki, Japan

Tamabi DNA – A Genealogy of Contemporary Nihonga, Japanese Paintings Since 1965 –, Tama Art University Art-Theque Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Art Slope, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

gift from…..to….., gallery fu, Yokohama, Japan
2022
A Lighthouse called Kanata New York Pop-Up, USA

Awards

2012　Award of Excellence, The 23rd Garyuzakura Japanese Painting Exhibition
　　　Grand Prize, The 12th Sato Taisei Art Exhibition
2013　Award of Excellence, JASSO Students of the Year
2014　Selected, The 16th Setsuryosha-Firenze Prize Exhibition
　　　Selected, The 50th Kanagawa Art Exhibition
　　　Selected, The 25th Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program
2015　The 25th Sato International Cultural Foundation Scholarship
　　　The 2nd Kamiyama Foundation Art Support Program Scholarship
　　　Selected, Shinsei Art Exhibition
　　　Selected, The 20th Japan Arts Foundation Scholarship Program
2016　Award of Excellence, “FACE 2016” Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award Exhibition
　　　Selected, The 34th Ueno Royal Museum Art Exhibition
　　　Selected, “Seed” Yamatane Museum Japanese Painting Award
2019　Selected, The 21st Setsuryosha-Firenze Prize Exhibition

Public Collections

Takayama City, Gifu, Japan
Fukuchiyama City, Kyoto, Japan
Sato Sakura Museum, Tokyo, Japan

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Mikagi Ayane
Mikagi

Flowers in the Mist | Japanese pigments on Japanese paper, mounted on 4 panels

H190 x W344 cm / H74.8 x W135.4 in

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1988 Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
2015 Tama Art University, MFA / Lives and works in Tokyo

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Storied traditions in the indigenous type of Japanese painting called Nihonga, placing emphasis on uniquely Japanese materials, techniques and conventions, have thrived in Japan for nearly 1,000 years, and continues into the present. Yet its present incarnation is often mired in the idolization of Western materials and subject matter, and the differences between Western oil painting and Nihonga have been greatly convoluted, with an inability to distinguish one from another. It is within this context that the emergence of Ayane Mikagi (b. 1988 –), one of the brightest young painters of Nihonga, can be understood, who, along with her contemporaries, are trying to create a new wave of Japanese painting for the 21st century, with an exhilarating zeitgeist focusing on traditional Japanese techniques yet placing emphasis on innovative methods of abstraction never before featured or focused within the medium.

Winning a slew of awards since 2012 and already placed in three public collections in Japan, Mikagi’s paintings are at once evocative, luscious and emphatic, and are most often idyllic landscapes of nature, controlled and painted carefully in layered emotion. Yet it is her floral paintings that have garnered attention for blurring the lines between the purely figurative and the abstract, and lead to kaleidoscopes of colour that pop, impress and melt into techni-colored fantasia.