Miyata Sayaka

Majoring Textile Arts at university made me start to produce art with unique techniques of needleworks and machine embroidery.

In WARP series, the layer of threads comes out as an intentional glitch with sewing machine.

In KNOTS series, I produce embroideries without fabrics as support material.

Through these various types of embroidery technique, my works represent a life form, a birth of everything and a state of evolution,

which arose my interests in what the error has brought us new values and criteria in this world.

Born in Kyoto

2012 MFA, Textile Field, Kyoto University of Art and Design.

Major exhibitions 2024 “Sapporo International Art Festival” (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art), 2022 solo exhibitions “The Opposite Side” (Gifu Museum of Contemporary Art), “KYOTO STEAM” (Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art), 2021 “Material Reincarnation” (Gifu Prefectural Museum of Art), “Confidential Thinking” (Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art), 2017 “Intersectionality” (Hiroshima City Museum of Modern Art), etc.

Received 2025 the 35th TAKASHIMAYA ART AWARD, 2024 The Best Young Artist Award by City of Kyoto, 2021 “Suzhou Craft Biennale” Gaoxin, 2017 “Kyoto Prefecture Emerging Artists Selection Exhibition” Excellence Award, 2014 “Kyoto Exhibition” Kyoto Exhibition Award, etc.