{"id":13741,"date":"2023-06-08T09:18:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T13:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=13741"},"modified":"2023-06-08T09:18:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T13:18:42","slug":"masako-miki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/masako-miki\/","title":{"rendered":"Masako Miki"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2692\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-13741-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2023\/MasakoMiki.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2023\/MasakoMiki.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2023\/MasakoMiki.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13744 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Self-portrait.jpg?resize=245%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Self-portrait-scaled.jpg?resize=245%2C300&amp;ssl=1 245w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Self-portrait-scaled.jpg?resize=836%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 836w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Self-portrait-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C940&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Self-portrait-scaled.jpg?resize=1254%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Self-portrait-scaled.jpg?resize=1672%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1672w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Self-portrait-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C852&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Self-portrait-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C1308&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Self-portrait-scaled.jpg?resize=1920%2C2351&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Self-portrait-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Self-portrait-scaled.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ryanleegallery.com\/exhibitions\/masako-miki-empathy-lab\/\">Masako Miki<\/a> (b. 1973, Osaka, Japan) is a multimedia artist whose work ranges installation and large-scale sculpture, printmaking, watercolor and felting. A native of Japan, she now lives and works in Berkeley, CA. Her work frequently explores the idea of synthesis\u2014manipulating contradicting spatial elements to suggest a disoriented context and space. The artist bases her narrative on her own experiences of becoming bicultural in the United States at the age of eighteen. Strongly influenced by craft and folk art of different cultures, she remains close to her ancestral traditions, frequently considering motifs and ideologies that arise from her association with Buddhism, Shintoism, and traditional Japanese folklore. The artist\u2019s practice is further rooted in the belief that art can foster social contexts in which contemporary and universally relevant mythologies and social narratives can be generated\u2014replacing or fixing harmful misconceptions and mythologies of the past that have previously sparked social injustices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">In 2020, Miki\u2019s functional furniture was commissioned to be a part of San Francisco\u2019s forthcoming, landmark Minna-Natoma Art Corridor. In 2021, her large-scale sculptures were commissioned as a permanent installation at the Uber Technologies Headquarters in Mission Bay, San Francisco. She has been included in solo and group exhibitions at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, KY (2023); Nassima Landau Art Foundation, Israel (2023); ICA San Jose, CA (2022); Katonah Museum of Art, NY (2022); Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, CA (2022); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA (2019); and de Young Museum, CA (2016), among others. Her work is included in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation, NY; Collecci\u00f3n SOLO, Spain; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. She received her MFA from San Jose State University.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13745\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13745 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Empathy-Lab-installed-3-copy.jpg?resize=696%2C464&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Empathy-Lab-installed-3-copy.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Empathy-Lab-installed-3-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Empathy-Lab-installed-3-copy.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, 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\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Masako Miki, Empathy Lab, Installated at Ryan Lee Gallery, May 18 \u2013 June 30, 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13746\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13746\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13746 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Empathy-Lab-installed-9-copy.jpg?resize=696%2C464&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Empathy-Lab-installed-9-copy.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Empathy-Lab-installed-9-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Empathy-Lab-installed-9-copy.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Masako Miki, Empathy Lab, Installated at Ryan Lee Gallery, May 18 \u2013 June 30, 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13747\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13747\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13747 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Hyakki-Yagho-Night-Parade-of-One-Hundred-Demons-Following-Plaster-Wall-Shapeshifter-and-a-Cat-Who-Lived-a-Million-Years-MMI-23-19-RL.jpg?resize=696%2C902&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"902\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Hyakki-Yagho-Night-Parade-of-One-Hundred-Demons-Following-Plaster-Wall-Shapeshifter-and-a-Cat-Who-Lived-a-Million-Years-MMI-23-19-RL.jpg?resize=1185%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1185w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Hyakki-Yagho-Night-Parade-of-One-Hundred-Demons-Following-Plaster-Wall-Shapeshifter-and-a-Cat-Who-Lived-a-Million-Years-MMI-23-19-RL.jpg?resize=696%2C902&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Hyakki-Yagho-Night-Parade-of-One-Hundred-Demons-Following-Plaster-Wall-Shapeshifter-and-a-Cat-Who-Lived-a-Million-Years-MMI-23-19-RL.jpg?resize=1068%2C1385&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Hyakki-Yagho-Night-Parade-of-One-Hundred-Demons-Following-Plaster-Wall-Shapeshifter-and-a-Cat-Who-Lived-a-Million-Years-MMI-23-19-RL.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Hyakki-Yagho-Night-Parade-of-One-Hundred-Demons-Following-Plaster-Wall-Shapeshifter-and-a-Cat-Who-Lived-a-Million-Years-MMI-23-19-RL.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hyakki Yagho, Night Parade of One Hundred Demons &#8211; Following Plaster Wall Shapeshifter and a Cat Who Lived a Million Years<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2023\/MasakoMiki.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listMasako Miki (b. 1973, 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