RYAN LEE Gallery is pleased to present paintings and sculptures by Masako Miki, who is making her ADAA fair debut. Working across mediums of watercolor, felt, bronze, and wood, Miki has created a world of shape-shifting characters.
ADAA Fair 2026 | World of Masako Miki
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Masako Miki
March in Mystic Night, 2026
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Paper Dimensions: 41 1/4 x 60 1/8 inches (104.8 x 152.7 cm)
Framed Dimensions: 44 1/4 x 63 1/2 inches (112.4 x 161.3 cm)
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Masako Miki
Compassionate Cloud and Rain, 2026
Wool on XPS foam, walnut wood
38 1/2 x 24 x 14 inches (97.8 x 61 x 35.6 cm)
Influenced by craft and folk art from different cultures, Miki remains close to her ancestral traditions, especially those that arise from Buddhist and Shinto beliefs and practices, as well as traditional Japanese folklore. Taking inspiration from the Shinto animist belief of yaoyorozu no kami (eight million gods), Miki creates enchanted creatures that define a world of shifting boundaries and identities.
Open until December 2026, Miki’s work is highlighted in a solo exhibition entitled Masako Miki: The Garden of Wandering Spirits at the Savannah College of Art and Design, GA. Earlier this year, a solo exhibition, Masako Miki: Shapeshifters, Sprites, and Spirits, opened at the Moody Center for the Arts, TX. In 2025, Miki had her largest presentation to date, an immersive, site-specific solo exhibition at the ICA San Francisco, titled Midnight March, which traveled to the MassArt Art Museum in 2026.
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Masako Miki
Optimistic Camellia Sprite, 2026
Wool on XPS foam, walnut wood
51 x 15 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (129.5 x 39.4 x 39.4 cm)
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Amethyst Cat Sharing Optimistic Energy, 2026
Watercolor and acrylic ink on paper
Paper Dimensions: 41 1/4 x 60 1/8 inches (104.8 x 152.7 cm)
Framed Dimensions: 44 1/2 x 63 1/2 inches (113 x 161.3 cm)
In 2025, Miki was awarded the Anderson Ranch Visiting Artists Prize at the Aspen Art Fair. In 2023, Miki showed at Art Basel Miami Beach for the first time, exhibiting a site-specific, immersive installation in the fair’s Meridians Sector. Forthcoming public projects include commissions at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and San Francisco’s Minna-Natoma Art Corridor.
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Masako Miki
Holographic Entities Reminding of the Universe, 2023
Patinated bronze and claro walnut wood
Overall: 45 x 36 x 15 3/4 inches (114.3 x 91.4 x 40 cm)
Bronze: 42 x 32 x 5 inches (106.7 x 81.3 x 12.7 cm)
Base: 3 x 36 x 15 3/4 inches (7.6 x 66 x 40 cm)
Edition of 3
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Amethyst Fox Sharing Optimistic Energy, 2026
Watercolor and acrylic ink on paper
Paper Dimensions: 29 7/8 x 22 7/8 inches (75.9 x 58.1 cm)
Framed Dimensions: 32 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches (83.2 x 65.4 cm)
Masako Miki (b. 1973 Osaka, Japan) is a multimedia artist whose work ranges from installation and large-scale sculpture to printmaking, watercolor, and felting. A native of Japan, she now lives and works in Berkeley, CA.
Her work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (2024); KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, KY (2023); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA (2023); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, CA (2023); Nassima Landau Art Foundation, Israel (2023); ICA San Jose, CA (2022); Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, CA (2022); and de Young Museum, CA (2016), among others. Miki’s work is held in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation, NY; Collección SOLO, Spain; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
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Fox Delivering Messages, 2025
Patinated and polished bronze
15 x 11 1/2 x 5 inches (38.1 x 29.2 x 12.7 cm)
Edition of 4
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Awa-dancing Cat Deity Leading the Parade, 2026
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Paper Dimensions: 22 3/4 x 30 inches (57.8 x 76.2 cm)
Framed Dimensions: 25 3/4 x 32 3/4 inches (65.4 x 83.2 cm)
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Connecting Shapeshifter, 2021
Cast bronze, automobile paint, and urethane
27 1/2 x 17 x 4 3/4 inches (69.9 x 43.2 x 12.1 cm)
Edition of 4
