As a multimedia artist, Masako Miki (b. 1973 Osaka, Japan) navigates diverse mediums, including textile sculpture, watercolor, and outdoor public installations to explore the intersection of mythology, folklore, and contemporary social issues. Inspired by Shinto’s animism, Miki attempts crafting new mythologies concerning cultural identity as social collectives. 

Miki has exhibited her immersive felt sculptural installations and watercolor works on paper in the US and internationally. She has exhibited at institutions including Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the de Young Museum. Miki was a recipient of the 2018 Inga Maren Otto Fellowship Award from Watermill Center in New York, and has also been a resident artist at the de Young Museum and Facebook HQ. Miki’s work is in collections at SFMOMA, Colección Solo in Spain, the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation, Facebook, Inc., and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. She is currently working on the Mina and Natoma Street Corridor Project with SFMOMA and SFAC, designing functional sculptures. Miki is based in Berkeley, California. She is represented by CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions in San Francisco, and RYAN LEE Gallery in New York.