Izumi Miyazaki

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Izumi Miyazaki (宮崎いず美, born in 1994, Yamanashi Prefecture) is a female Japanese artist that works mainly with photography and photoshop. Heavily influenced by Japanese culture, Izumi often including food and clothing into her pieces, creating surreal self portraits to reflect the life of Japanese citizens. Her first debut was in 2016 and has appeared in the art scene for about three years.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Career
• 3 Style
• 4 Exhibition/Works
• 5 References
• 6 External Links

Biography

Growing up an only child in Japan, Izumi developed an unique way of looking at the world around her. Throughout her elementary and middle school years, Izumi enjoyed taking photos with her mother’s silver Pentax. Being an only child growing up in Japan, Izumi had a very lonely childhood and turned to art as a way for finding company. She has a strong long for film and really enjoyed food. Because of this, these two aspects were actively portrayed in her art pieces in the future.

Career

Izumi Miyazaki graduated from Musashino Art University in Tokyo in 2016 with a degree in Imaging Arts. As a university student, she starting posting her pieces on social media which attracted international attention, jump starting her career. Early in her career, Izumi focused on displaying the reality of things. Pictures posted on her social media platform came straight from the camera, no edit or changes of any kind. Since her 2016 debut at the Wild Project Gallery in Luxembourg Izumi’s artwork has changed dramatically. Now, Izumi’s artwork contains a lot more of her own creations. Her newer pieces included set ups entirely created by her and after-shoot photoshop has become essential to the final presentation of her work. Being a very modern and young artist, Izumi’s biggest platform has been social media. She has gained a great amount of followers on Instagram and especially Twitter which is where most of her art pieces are shown. Izumi also loves displaying her artwork in public just to be able to see the reactions of viewers as they pass by. Despite being a new and an artist emerging only recently, Izumi has already had multiple solo exhibitions at the Wild Project Gallery, Art-U Room and has been feature in magazines such as VICE. This year, Izumi has especially taken a turn in her artistic direction and is currently working on a collaboration with the Italian brand Valentino on a new 2019 Valentino TKY season promotion.

Style

Being a only child grow up, Izumi always felt lonely during her childhood. In an article by Design Indaba, she reveals the reason behind her self portraiture in most of her pieces. She explains how by putting herself into the art, she takes away some of that loneliness when seeing “photos of a double me.” In an interview with CNN style, Izumi reveals that there is no real meaning behind her artwork. Unlike many other artists of the twenty century, Izumi uses her pieces as a form of expression, often using food in her artwork, simply because she likes it. She describes her artwork as “no special message or purpose” and asks her audience to view her photography with “as much freedom of thinking” as she does when creating the piece. Even when asked to describe her style, Izumi simply says that she just tries to “working in the moment” and doesn’t really follow any kind of structure. Even though Izumi claims that her pieces contain no real meaning behind them, art critics have a different idea. Izumi’s works have been described as critiquing cultural clichés by taking a grotesque turn on the stereotypical “kawaii” Japanese culture.  Her art pieces have also been included in books that claims her work as part of female artists who uses art to “reject the male gaze and reclaiming the female perspective.” A widely accepted concept that is usually connect to Izumi’s art work is the style of Surrealism. Many art websites have described her work as very surreal and imaginative but Izumi have not yet confirm if that is the style she intended. Her art inspiration comes not from other artworks but instead from film. Her strong passion towards cinema have been shown in her pieces. Many of her photographs have been described by critics as “cinematic” or having a “cinematographic dimension”. Despite her love for film, she finds inspiration from artists such as Alex Prager and Miwa Yanagi and looks to them as mentors that guides her artwork. Like Alex Prager, Izumi stages her photos and create cinematic scenes. Similar to Miwa Yanagi, the people in her portraits usually has a very neutral expression.

Exhibition/Works

• Cute & Cruel (Wild Project Gallery, Luxembourg, 2016)
• Art-U Room  (Tokyo, 2016)
• Fondazione Prada Osservatorio (Milan)
• Kyotographie Festival (Kyoto, 2018)
• Collective Power (Chapel Gallery, Objectifs, 2018)
• Women in Photography 2018 Exhibition (Chapel Gallery, Objectifs, 2018)
• Women in Photography 2018: Artists Talk (Workshop Space, Objectifs, 2018)
• Alter Ego (Fotogalleri Vasli Souza , Copenhagen Photo Festival, 2019)
• VICE Magazine's 2019 Photo Issue
• Valentino TKY (collaboration with Valentino 2019)
• Time and Libération exhibition

References

1. ^ CNN, Kate Springer (2016-08-02). "Heads will roll: The beauty of guts and gore". CNN Style. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
2. ^ "The surreal self-portraits of Izumi Miyazaki". Design Indaba. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
3. ^ fotoinfinitum (2016-06-01). "The Surrealism of Izumi Miyazaki". FOTO INFINITUM. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
4. ^ Nguyen, Andrew (2019-04-22). "Valentino's Latest Capsule Is Inspired by Tokyo". The Cut. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
5. ^ "Women in Photography 2018: Izumi Miyazaki". OBJECTIFS. 2018-08-06. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
6. ^ "The surreal self-portraits of Izumi Miyazaki". Design Indaba. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
7. ^ "More bonkers and surreal selfies from Izumi Miyazaki". It’s Nice That. 2016-06-22. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
8. ^ "Decapitated Self Portraits From This Japanese Photographer". Konbini - All Pop Everything!(in French). Retrieved 2019-08-01.

External links

• https://www.izumiofficial.org/artworks
• https://izumimiyazaki.tumblr.com
• https://www.instagram.com/izumiyazakizumi/
• https://twitter.com/nothingwe?lang=en

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