Visual Artist | Installation, Animation, video and performance
Born 1978, Sangawa-cho, Ehime, Japan
Lives and works in Celje, Slovenia
Keiko Miyazaki is a Japanese-born visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans installation, animation, video, and performance. Rather than creating isolated works, Miyazaki constructs interconnected, immersive worlds—fragile yet charged environments where personal memory meets broader cultural critique. Her art explores the quiet tensions of contemporary life: aging, intimacy, disconnection, and the emotional weight of survival within structured systems.
Drawing from her own lived experience and collective narratives, she creates poetic and often absurdist settings that question societal expectations and the commodification of human experience. Light is central to her work—not only as a sculptural material but as a metaphorical language used to reveal, conceal, and shift perception. Through shadows, timed illumination, and ephemeral materials, Miyazaki builds spaces that flicker between presence and absence, vulnerability and resistance.
After completing her MA in Fine Art from Northumbria University in England, she continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Based in Slovenia, she has exhibited widely across Europe and Japan, including solo exhibitions at Match Gallery (Ljubljana) and the Gallery of Contemporary Art (Celje). Her work has been recognized with awards such as the Sakaide Art Grand Prix and the Shikokuchuou City Award for Cultural Contribution.
Education
2005 – Guest student, Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland
2004 – Guest student, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2003 – MA Fine Art, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
Love Can’t Pay Us Rent, Match Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2024
In the Devil’s Hole, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia
2018
Secret Desires, Račka Gallery, Celje, Slovenia
Broken Relationship, Tovarna Umetnosti (Art Factory), Majšperk, Slovenia
2017
Woman, Insula Gallery, Izola, Slovenia
Selected Group Exhibitions and Festivals
2024
(Still) Life, performance, Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje, with IvAnKe (Andreja Džakušič and Iva Tratnik)
2023
(IM)BALANCE, Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje, Slovenia
Entropomorphia, sound–visual dance performance, Audible and Inaudible City, Špital Chapel, Celje, with Estela Žutić (movement), Simon Macuh (sound)
Nothing, Something or Anything, performance, Audible and Inaudible City, Špital Chapel, Celje, with AnKo (Andreja Džakušič)
2022
Festival RAČKA 2022: Based on True Stories, Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje, Slovenia
2021
City of Women, Dr. Xenia: The Fourth Corner – Fight for Rights, Gallery Alkatraz, Ljubljana, Slovenia
UMOBLODNICA, performance, Cirkulacija2, Ljubljana, with Andreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh, Borut Peternjelj, Iva Tratnik, Daribor Bori Zupančič, Estela Žutić
2020
ALWAYS & FOREVER, Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje, Slovenia
Video Evening with DIVA Station: Presentation of Works by Andreja Džakušič and the collectives SIVA and IvAnKe, PHOTON – Center for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019
IvAnKe (Iva Tratnik, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki), Tobačna Tovarna, Ljubljana, Slovenia
House on the Hill 2019, Medvode, Slovenia
ART STAYS 2019 – 17th Festival of Contemporary Art: Future, work in progress, Art Factory, Majšperk, Slovenia
ART STAYS 2019 – 17th Festival of Contemporary Art: Future, performance, Ptuj, Slovenia
HERE. THEN and NOW (TUKAJ. NEKOČ in DANES), overview of 20th-century visual art and contemporary practices in the Savinja Valley, Novo Celje Manor, Žalec, Slovenia
In-Between / Vmes, performative exhibition with AnKo (Andreja Džakušič and Keiko Miyazaki), ArtKit, Maribor, Slovenia
FOCUS. Homage to Stojan Kerbler, group exhibition, Ptuj City Gallery, Ptuj, Slovenia
2018
12th International Festival: Lighting Guerrilla – Colours, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production of Desire and Pleasure – Festival Račka 2018, group exhibition, Račka Gallery, Celje, Slovenia
Pixxelpoint: 19th International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices – Intelligent Observer, City Gallery of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2017
Ksihti, Art Factory, Majšperk, Slovenia
Awards and Recognitions
2005 – Mayor’s Award, Cosmos Cable TV Award, Japan
2002 – Excellence Award, Sakaide Art Grand Prix, Japan
1999 – Shikokuchuou City Award for Cultural Contribution, Japan
Collaborations
2017–Present – Member of the artist duo AnKo (with Andreja Džakušič), and IvAnKe (with Andreja Džakušič and Iva Tratnik), focusing on performance, installation, and collaborative practices.