ARTIST INFO

Kimiyo MISHIMA

Kimiyo MISHIMA

Kimiyo MISHIMA (1932-) is a female Japanese postwar artist who built her career in parallel with the Gutai Art Association during the 1960s and 70s in Kansai (Osaka), Japan. From the late 1950s and into the 1960s, when movements such as Art Informel, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art exerted a significant influence on Japanese artists, Mishima, responding to these movements, established her own style and invoked techniques such as collage and repetitive imagery to create signature works. Living in the Kansai area, where the Gutai movement flourished, she was deeply related with its members, however chose the Dokuritsu Art Association as her platform. She received numerous awards in their competitions, some in which she competed with Jiro Takamatsu. Recently her paintings have been reevaluated and collected in international museums, attracting further attention.
From the 1970s, she developed three-dimensional works and installations, capturing how information is turned into rubbish and discarded immediately, which includes the renowned huge rubbish bin installation exhibited permanently in Naoshima.
Throughout her career, Mishima has expressed “the fear and anxiety of drowning in information”, the notion she experienced during Japan’s postwar economic growth.

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Works

  • Title
    Push-A
    Size
    163×132cm
    Year
    1965
    Medium
    newspaper, magazine, acrylic on canvas
  • Title
    Poem of Night I
    Size
    162.4×130.4cm
    Year
    1965
    Medium
    newspaper, magazine, acrylic on canvas
  • Title
    Newspaper 95-B
    Size
    20x30x33cm
    Year
    1995
    Medium
    ceramic
  • Title
    Box Postpak 17-2
    Size
    33×28×h24cm
    Year
    2017
    Medium
    ceramic
  • Title
    Untitled
    Size
    130 x 162 cm
    Year
    1970-71
    Medium
    Newspaper, magazine, acrylic, silk-screen on canvas
  • Title
    Work 17-G
    Size
    φ56 x h90 cm
    Year
    2017
    Medium
    printed and painted ceramic, iron
  • Title
    Push-A
    Size
    163×132cm
    Year
    1965
    Medium
    newspaper, magazine, acrylic on canvas
  • Title
    Poem of Night I
    Size
    162.4×130.4cm
    Year
    1965
    Medium
    newspaper, magazine, acrylic on canvas
  • Title
    Newspaper 95-B
    Size
    20x30x33cm
    Year
    1995
    Medium
    ceramic
  • Title
    Box Postpak 17-2
    Size
    33×28×h24cm
    Year
    2017
    Medium
    ceramic
  • Title
    Untitled
    Size
    130 x 162 cm
    Year
    1970-71
    Medium
    Newspaper, magazine, acrylic, silk-screen on canvas
  • Title
    Work 17-G
    Size
    φ56 x h90 cm
    Year
    2017
    Medium
    printed and painted ceramic, iron

CV

1932
Born in Osaka
1951
Graduated from Ohgimachi High School
1954
Becomes a member of Dokuritsu Art Association (Dokuritsu Bijutsu Kyokai)
1986
Studied in NY, supported by Rockefeller Scholarship ACC, USA.Prefecture.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021
“Kimiyo Mishima”, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo Japan.
2020
Mishima Kimiyo, Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2020
4th Collection Gallery Exhibition: Mishima Kimiyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
2018
Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Switzerland.
2018
'Works since the painting period 1970-,' Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe, Japan.
2017
"Newspaper99N/ Newspaper99-NG,” Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe, Japan.
2017
Frieze New York 2017, Gallery Yamaki Fine Art Booth, New York, USA.
2017
“Early Works,” MEM, Tokyo, Japan.
2016
Taka Ishii Gallery, New York, USA.
2015
“Kimiyo Mishima at Art Factory Jonanjima, Tokyo, Japan.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Australia
2022
“POLA MUSEUM OF ART 20th ANNIVERSARY: From Monet to Richter, featuring works from the new collection”, POLA MUSEUM OF ART, Kanagawa, Japan
2022
“VOID of NIPPON 77: Postwar Art History Landscape Sequence”, GYRE GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2022
“In Commemoration of the Gold Prize of the Ceramic Society of Japan, Takuro Kuwata and Kimiyo Mishima Exhibition” Kochukyo, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Listening to Clay, Joan B Mirviss LTD, New York
2021
Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging 16 Women Artists from around the World, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2019
ELLE LOVES ART, Tokyo
2019
"Children and Adults : What Does This Look Like? ," Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Hyogo, Japan
2019
"The Yamamura Collection: Gutai and the Japanese Avant-Garde 1950s–1980s," Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
2019
'Taipei Dangdai Art &Ideas', Gallery Yamaki Fine Art booth, Taiwan
2018
Collection 2: The 1980s Zeitgeist as a Point of Departure, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2018
“Shigeji and Kimiyo Mishima,” MEM, Tokyo, Japan.
2017
Art Basel Hong Kong 2017, MEM Booth, Hong Kong.
2017
Chronicle, Chronicle!, Creative Center Osaka, Japan.
2016
Taipei Art Fair, Sokyo Gallery Booth, Taiwan.
2014
“Identity and Originality" Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan.
2014
“Currents: Japanese Contemporary Art,” Christie's Hong Kong.

Awards

2022
the 11th Enku Prize
2022
the 63rd Mainichi Art Award
2021
2021 Agency for Cultural Affairs Commissioner's Commendation
2019
The 5th Ando Tadao Cultural Foundation Award, Japan
2019
Sardi per l’Arte Back to the Future Prize, Turin, Italy
2002
Received Yaizu Mayor’s prize at the show ‘Humor’, Shizuoka, Japan.
2001
The Contemporary Sculpture exhibition, Yamaguchi Prefectural Prize and The Citizen Prize, Ubeshi Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan.
1996
Sai no Kuni Chokoku Variety 1996, Grand Prize, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
1989
International Ceramics, winner of the Copper Prize, Tajimi Gymnasium, Japan.
1988
Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture Exhibition 1988, Gold Prize, Gifu Toki City Culture Plaza, Japan.
1974
International Ceramic Exhibition, winner of Gold Medal, Faenza, Ceramic Museum, Faenza, Italy.
1966
Kansai Dokuritsu Effort Prize at Kansai Dokuritsu Exhibition, Japan.
1965
Winner of the Prize at the Ninth Annual Shell Exhibition, Shirokiya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan.
1964
Kansai Dokuritsu Prize at Kansai Dokuritsu Exhibition, Japan.
1963
Dokuritsu Winner of the Grand Prix at Exhibition.

NEWS

2018/03/24
Exhibition: Shigeji and Kimiyo MISHIMA (MEM, Tokyo) 
2018/03/07
Mishima participates in Takashimaya Art Department 110th Exhibition 
2018/06/08
KIMIYO MISHIMA SOLO SHOW IN SWITZERLAND