Miwa Komatsu

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Born 1984 in Nagano, Japan
Lives and works in Sakaki, Nagano

Miwa Komatsu

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Miwa Komatsu’s work emerges from a heightened sensitivity to the invisible forces that shape our world. Growing up in close communion with nature, she encountered life and death not as distant concepts, but as vivid realities that left a profound imprint on her perspective.
These formative experiences nurtured a worldview grounded in the quiet belief that all living beings are intimately connected through a shared essence.
Her richly detailed compositions—inhabited by sacred beings and symbolic creatures—serve as thresholds between the seen and unseen, inviting contemplation of deeper realms of existence.
Through years of disciplined introspection and ceremonial practice, she has developed a creative philosophy The Great Harmonization, which seeks to bring coherence to opposing forces such as the physical and the metaphysical, the temporal and the timeless.
Komatsu’s work does not offer comfort through calmness, but instead captivates with a dynamic presence—revealing a universe where ancestral memory, transformation, and reverence for life converge.

Solo Exhibitions

2025

Sacred Nexus: Resonating with Cosmos, Sapporo Art Park Museum, Sapporo, Japan

Sacred Nexus, Whitestone Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2024

Miwa Komatsu: Sense of Sacredness, Whitestone Gallery Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

2023

Miwa Komatsu : Sense of Sacredness, Whitestone Gallery Singapore, Singapore

Miwa Komatsu: Keep Lighting Keep Walking – special presentation celebrating the museum’s new acquisition of the work Keep Lighting Keep Walking, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum, Nagano, Japan

2022

Miwa Komatsu : Transparent Chaos -Spirituality and Mandala, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan

Miwa Komatsu : Spirituality and Mandala, Zenkoji Temple, Nagano, Japan

2021

Miwa Komatsu : Prayer and Communion, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum, Nagano, Japan

2020

Miwa Komatsu : Prayer for Nature,Woodone Museum of Art, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Japan

2019

Miwa Komatsu : World of Divine Spirits, Tomioka Art Museum,Tomioka, Japan

2018

Miwa Komatsu : The World of Prayer, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano, Japan

Miwa Komatsu : The World of Prayer, Oyama Chusaku Museum, Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, Japan

2014

Miwa Komatsu Exhibition – Dreams and Challenges of a Painter, Ueda City Art Museum, Ueda, Nagano, Japan

Group Exhibitions

2024

Zipangu : Contemporary Artists Who Defined the Heisei Era, Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan

Zipangu : Contemporary Artists Who Defined the Heisei Era, Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Saga, Japan

Ashikaga Real Art Experience : That Opens A New World of Art, Ashikaga Museum of Art, Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan

2022

Fukushima Biennale 2022 Fugetsu Art Festival, Suirakuen Garden, Nanko Park, Fukushima, Japan

2021

Exhibition of the Omoi Tsumugi Foundation Collection, Ashikaga Museum of Art, Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan

2018

Fukushima Biennale 2018 Choyō Art Festival, Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, Japan

A Colossal World, Whitebox, New York, United States

2016

Fukushima Biennale 2016 Choyō Art Festival, Chieko Takamura’s Birthplace, Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, Japan

A Sustaining Life, Waterfall Gallery, New York, United States

2013

L’exposition du Prix CANSON® 2013, Petit Palais, Paris, France

Performances

2024

Live Painting Performance, Fitzrovia Chapel, London, United Kingdom

2024

Live Painting Performance, Mont Saint-Michel Abbey, Normandy, France

2023

Live Painting Performance, Mont Saint-Michel Abbey, Normandy, France

2022

Live Painting Performance, Itsukushima Shrine, Hiroshima, Japan

Live Painting Performance, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan

2019

Live Painting Performance, Venice International Film Festival, Lazzaretto Vecchio, Venice, Italy

Live Painting Performance, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH,United States

2018

Live Painting Performance, Maison Christian Dior, Paris, France

Live Painting Performance, Dallas Art Fair, Dallas,TX,United States

2017

Live Painting Performance, Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho, Tokyo, Japan

Live Painting Performance, Whitestone Gallery Taipei, Taipei,

2016

Live Painting Performance, The Nippon Club, New York, United States

2015

Live Painting Performance, Chelsea Flower Show, London, United Kingdom

2014

Live Painting Performance, Izumo Taisha Grand Shrine, Shimane, Japan

Public Collections

United Kingdom

British Museum (London)

United States

World Trade Center (New York)

Residence of the incumbent honorary consul in Cleveland (Ohio)

France

Commune of Le Mont-Saint-Michel (Normandy)

Taiwan

O-Bank Headquarters (Taipei)

Nan Pao Resins (Taipei)

Catwalk Entertainment TAIPEI (Taipei)

Singapore

Ho Bee Group (Buona Vista)

China

Amanyangyun (Shanghai)

Japan

Nagano Prefectural Art Museum (Nagano)

Woodone Museum of Art (Hiroshima)

Iwate Education Center (Iwate)

Adachigahara Furosatomura Senjinkan (Fukushima)

Omoi Tsumugi Foundation (Tochigi)

Chiba Bank Headquarters (Chiba)

Shibuya Parco (Tokyo)

Hotel & Museum Royal Classic Osaka (Osaka)

Tokyo Garden Terrace, Kioi Conference (Tokyo)

Zenko-ji Temple (Nagano)

Kuon-ji Temple (Yamanashi)

Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine (Tokyo)

Izumo Grand Shrine (Shimane)

Itsukushima Shrine (Hiroshima)

To-ji Temple (Kyoto)

Koyasan Kongobuji Temple (Wakayama)

Simose Art Museum (Hiroshima)

Publications

2024

Finding Your Role in the World (Taiwanese edition, Linking Books)

2022

Miwa Komatsu: Transparent Chaos — Spirituality and Mandala (Kyuryudo Art Publishing)

2020

Finding Your Role in the World (Simplified-Chinese edition, Hunan Literature & Art Publishing House)

The Mission of the Divine Beasts (Hunan Literature & Art Publishing House)

2018

Miwa Komatsu: Yamato Power to the World (Kyuryudo Art Publishing)

Finding Your Role in the World (Diamond, Inc.)

2015

Miwa Komatsu Works (Kindle edition, Creek & River Co.)

2014

Miwa Komatsu: Path of the Artist in Her 20s, 2004–2014 (Kadokawa)