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Kazuko Miyamoto (b. 1942) is a Japanese-American Minimalist artist and feminist figure whose work is described as "a pioneer of a new and radically warm brand of rigorous abstraction, introducing handmade, irregular, and intimate elements, in dialogue with the movement’s visual language".

Biography
Miyamoto initially studied art in her birthplace of Tokyo at the Gendai Bijutsu Kenkyujo (Contemporary Art Research Studio) before immigrating to America in 1964. In Manhattan, she attended the Arts Student League of New York from 1964-1968, and during that time became acquainted with various members of the Minimalist art movement. Miyamoto's first studio was locate on the Lower East Side, on 117 Hester Street, near Sol LeWitt's studio in the same building. LeWitt employed Miyamoto as his assistant during this time. From 1968-1975, Miyamoto created more paintings and modular sculptures in the Minimalist style. Her first gallery shows were in 1973, in New York and Italy, including work featured in the Museum of Modern Art. Miyamoto has also been involved in the founding of communal and collective artists' spaces in New York: the A.I.R. (Artist in Residence), the first all-female artist collective in New York, and Gallery onetwentyeight, a community art space in the Lower East Side.

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