As a multimedia artist, Masako Miki navigates diverse mediums, including textile sculpture, watercolor, and outdoor public installations to explore the intersection of mythology, folklore, and contemporary social issues. Miki has exhibited her immersive felt sculptural installations and watercolor works on paper in the US, and internationally.

“Ms. Inkyo is a master of Shodo, traditional Japanese Calligraphy. Japanese Calligraphy has kanji (Chinese-derived characters) and kana (syllabic Japanese scripts), and she is a master of both kanji and kana shodo.

Masako Miki (b. 1973 Osaka, Japan) is a multimedia artist whose work ranges from installation and large-scale sculpture to printmaking, watercolor, and felting. A native of Japan, she now lives and works in Berkeley, CA.

Masako Miki is a Japanese-American artist known for her vibrant, large-scale sculptures, immersive installations, and works on paper that explore themes of identity, transformation, and cultural mythology. She combines Japanese heritage, folk … Read more

The Shapeshifting with Artist Masako Miki, Artist(s) in Focus, Interview, by Jelena Martinovic, Widewalls, January 2022. Masako Miki Documentary Film released, Widewalls. 2021 Boundaries Ahead, OH Bay Art Project, Catalog, November 2021. Discussing Public Art, Fluidity, and Shapeshifting with Masako Miki, by Bella Bonner Evans,

Using a variety of materials, including wool, wood, bronze, ink, and watercolor, Miki creates characterful artworks rooted in Shintoism, the Indigenous culture of her Japanese birthplace, but informed by the freedom and ambition fostered by living in California for three decades.

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Masako Miki (b. 1973, Osaka, Japan) is a multimedia artist whose work ranges from installations to watercolor, felt, and bronze sculptures. Miki’s work reclaims the power of myth-making, proposing new mythologies to question old myths that continue to cause deep chasms among us.

Masako Miyazaki is an interdisciplinary artist whose work ranges from sculpture and printmaking to film and animation. Living both in the U.S. and Kyoto, Japan, Miyazaki is similarly influenced by Japanese aesthetics and the Super Bowl culture. Her primary subjects are of open systems such as fire and traffic jams.

From 2009 to 2010, she was the official Shodo artist for the car company Infiniti and also collaborated with Mikimoto America to do performances in their New York and Las Vegas branches. In 2012 published art catalogue "Light and Shadow".