Miyata Sayaka
SENSHAKE BANRAI
Sewing thread, cotton fabric on wooden panel
Size variable
2025
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Majoring in Textile Arts at university inspired me to begin creating artworks using my own techniques in hand and machine embroidery.
In the WARP series, layers of thread appear as intentional glitches, created by manipulating the sewing machine—an everyday tool—to generate unexpected textures and depth.
In the KNOTS series, I construct embroidery without using fabric as a base, building each piece only with thread.
These various embroidery techniques allow me to explore life forms, the origins of things, and states of evolution.
I am deeply interested in how errors or failures—often seen as negative—can bring new values and ways of thinking into the world.
Artist Profile
Miyata Sayaka
Born in Kyoto, Japan.
2012 MFA, Textile Field, Kyoto University of Art and Design.
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Group Exhibitions
2025 The Residual Heat of the MacGuffin (YOD Gallery, Osaka)
2022 Urahara no Ito ha Yosuga (Gifu Collection of Modern Arts)
2016 Urahara no Ito (Gallery PARC, Kyoto)
Selected Awards
2024 The 35th TAKASHIMAYA ART AWARD
2022 KYOTO STEAM 2022 International Art Competition (Selected)
2021 THE FIRST SUZHOU CRAFT BIENNIAL –THE WAY OF CRAFT– (Gaoxin Award)
Public Collections
The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Takashimaya Archives, SeedBank Co., Ltd.
Gallery Information
YOD Gallery
Yodo Gallery was established in 1960 by Yasuko Kotani, who had been a managing director of Osaka Formes Gallery which introduced Fauvism, Ecole de Paris and Surrealist European artists to Japan. She contributed to the development of local and international art scenes in Osaka after the war, especially by having first solo exhibitions by Joan Miro and Andres Derain in Osaka.
YOD Gallery was established in 2008 as a contemporary art gallery branch of Yodo Gallery, with a mission to present a new sense of value and expression to and from Japan. It has been supporting local art scenes and emerging artists working with new media, including video, photography, and installation.
In 2024, YOD Gallery opened a new space at TERRADA ART COMPLEX in Tennozu, Tokyo. YOD Gallery (Tokyo) will continue the spirit of YOD Gallery, which has been active for 16 years, by reviewing the ‘now’ while taking into account the history of art, and presenting exhibitions that find artists and works with a unique artistic vision, from the traditional to the experimental.)
Director:Ishigami Ryotaro
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