Miwa Yanagi

Japanese | 1967

Miwa Yanagi is a Japanese photographer who was born in 1967. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Art Gallery of New South Wales have featured Miwa Yanagi's work in the past.Miwa Yanagi's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 421 USD to 25,803 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2002 the record price for this artist at auction is 25,803 USD for Elevator Girl House B3, sold at Christie's Hong Kong in 2008. Miwa Yanagi has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, Artist Profile and Hyperallergic. The most recent article is Life Cycles: Learning Studio written for Chicago Gallery News in January 2024.

Shizuka, From: My Grandmothers - Miwa Yanagi

Shizuka, From: My Grandmothers, 2004

C-Print behind Diasec on Alu-Dibond

140 x 100 cm

Elevator Girl House B3, 1997

direct prints

180 x 120.5 cm. (70 3/4 x 47 1/4 in.) x 4 pieces

Eternal City Ⅱ, 1998

C print, mounted on plexiglas

89.6 × 59.8 cm (35¼ × 23½ in.)

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At Auction

Recent Auction Results

Eternal City II

By Miwa Yanagi

Phillips London

Elevator Girl House B3

By Miwa Yanagi

-13%

below mid-estimate

Wright

STREET IN A MAP

By Miwa Yanagi

+22%

above mid-estimate

Est-Ouest Auctions, Tokyo

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Past Exhibitions

Life Cycles

DePaul Art Museum

Lincoln Park | Chicago | Illinois | USA

Sep 07,2023 - Feb 11,2024

Collection1 80/90/00/10

National Museum of Art, Osaka (Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan)

Osaka | Japan

Jun 24,2023 - Sep 10,2023

Local Rhythms and Actions

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Sydney | Australia

Jun 04,2022 - Jan 01,2023

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Articles

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Coverage

“ ..Among Yanagi's best-known works are series of photographs such as “Elevator Girls”, “My Grandmothers”, and “Fairy Tale”, which make use of computer graphics and special makeup, and video installations... ”
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National Museum of Art, Osaka (Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan)

“ .. Since the mid-1990s, Miwa Yanagi’s photographs and videos have focused on images of women... ”
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Loock Galerie

“ ..Yanagi creates ambivalent images of the Apocalypse that illustrate the primal fears and desires of our supposedly modern society... ”
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Loock Galerie

“ ..Yanagi will present alongside WINDSWEPT WOMEN her video "Lullaby" of 2010, combined with works from the FAIRY TALES series... ”
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Loock Galerie