Ryuji Miyamoto

Japanese | 1947

Ryuji Miyamoto is a Japanese photographer who was born in 1947. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Galerie Klüser have featured Ryuji Miyamoto's work in the past.Ryuji Miyamoto's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 236 USD to 13,200 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2006 the record price for this artist at auction is 13,200 USD for Kobe - After the Earthquake, sold at Christie's New York in 2006. Ryuji Miyamoto has been featured in articles for ARTnews, Miami Herald and Artipedia. The most recent article is Japan's Postwar Aesthetics: Compelling If Not Confusing written for The Japan Times in February 2020.

Artist's alternative names: MIYAMOTO Ryuji

Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong - Ryuji Miyamoto

Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong, 1993

gelatin silver print

image: 15¾ x 19 7/8in. (40 x 50.5cm.) sheet: 20 x 23 7/8in. (50.8 x 60.7cm.)

TOKYO CARDBOARD HOUSE, 1994

Gelatin silver print

39.6 x 50.5 cm

Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong, 1993

gelatin silver print

15¾ x 19 7/8in. (40 x 50.5cm.)

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1-2. Kowloon Walled City

By Ryuji Miyamoto

+139%

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Architecture apocalypse

By Ryuji Miyamoto

-21%

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Yann le Mouel

Work

By Ryuji Miyamoto

-47%

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Past Exhibitions

PHOTO (-based)

Galerie Klüser

Munich | Germany

Apr 12,2022 - May 18,2022

2019-1 Collection Highlights & Special Feature: An Inner LandscapeⅠ - Landscapes And Memories

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Hiroshima | Japan

Jun 05,2019 - Oct 06,2019

Miyamoto Ryuji: Invisible Land

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Meguro-ku | Tokyo | Japan

May 14,2019 - Jul 15,2019

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Articles

Japan's Postwar Aesthetics: Compelling If Not Confusing

The Japan Times 12/02/2020

While painting is preeminent in the 90-odd works shown in “Collection: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Japan” at the National Museum of Art, Osaka (NMAO), it is mostly peripheral to the better-known Japanese aesthetic concepts.

'Beyond the End: Ruins in Art History': What Kind of Beauty Lies Beneath Ruins?

The Japan Times 08/01/2019

One question hovering over the Shoto Museum exhibition “Beyond the End: Ruins in Art History” is “What is beauty?”

Fall Preview: The Most Promising Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World

ARTnews 05/09/2018

The new season brings major shows for under-seen figures like Ree Morton, Siah Armajani, Rubem Valentim, and Ruth Asawa, as well as diverse, toothsome-sounding surveys like the Carnegie International and a show of contemporary Zimbabwean painting in Cape Town.

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“ ..Miyamoto’s photographs, however, refuse containment inside the nostalgia for things that are and have been lost or the tropes of emotional documents of urban life exposed to shifts in social structure... ”
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Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film

“ ..Interested in architecture’s material features beyond their raison d’être or purpose, Miyamoto has been photographing, from a unique perspective, the city as it is transformed, ruined, and revived... ”
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Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film

“ ..Since the 1980s, Miyamoto has taken buildings amidst demolition and incidentally emerged anonymous architectural structures as his subjects to confront architecture as an object freed from meaning and... ”
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Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film

Ryuji Miyamoto

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