Futoshi Miyagi was born in 1981 in Okinawa. He lives and works in Tokyo.
Confronting his own memories and experiences, Futoshi Miyagi has presented works on the subjects of nationality, race, and identity in a variety of forms, including photographs, videos, objects, and texts. Major solo exhibitions include “American Boyfriend: Portraits and Banners” (void+, Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, 2022), and the group exhibition “Does the future sleeps here?” (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2024), and “Countermeasures Against Awkward Discourses : From the Perspective of Third Wave Feminism” (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 2021). He is also the author of a collection of novels, “Distant” (2019, De Shobo Shinsha).
