Masako Miki
2028 Eureka Fellow
Masako Miki’s (b. 1973, Osaka, Japan) paintings, sculptures, and installations manifest ancient folklore in ways relevant to our contemporary lives. 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.
Miki holds an MFA from San José State University and a BFA from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA. She has enjoyed solo shows at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, ICA San José, and KMAC Contemporary Art Museum in Louisville, KY. Her work is in the permanent collections of SFMOMA, BAMPFA, and the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in California, as well as Collección SOLO in Madrid and Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation in New York, among others. Recent commissions include the design of Maison Hermès’ windows in Ginza, Tokyo; a site-specific installation for the Minna Natoma Arts Corridor in San Francisco; and a permanent installation of bronze sculptures at Uber HQ in San Francisco. Miki is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at ICA San Francisco, featuring works on paper, as well as felt and bronze sculptures. The exhibition will travel to the MassArt Art Museum in Boston in 2026. Miki lives and works in Berkeley and is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, and Ryan Lee, New York.
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