Mia Takemoto

Mia Takemoto is a British-Japanese artist. Influenced by her movements through England, Scotland, Japan, Australia and Canada, Takemoto's paintings explore feelings of hybridity and fragmentation. Her series of painting titled 'Roots and Routes' feature imagined landscapes that reflect the places and cultures she feels rooted in and has routed through. 

 

Takemoto is interested in materials and processes. By working in materials that require hand preparation such as a egg tempera and sumi ink, the process of preparing the materials becomes as important as the painting itself. She also enjoys merging and juxtaposing Asian and Western materials and techniques. 

 

Mia Takemoto completed an MA in Fine Art and History of Art at the University of Edinburgh in 2022. At her Graduate Showcase, Mia won the Astaire Art Prize recognising outstanding work by a graduating student. She was also awarded ECA's Andrew Grant Travel Bursary and was shortlisted for Visual Art Scotland's Graduate Showcase. In 2019, she enrolled on the BFA Visual Art programme at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She is currently working and living in Japan, where she is continuing her art practice. 

 

Recent solo and group exhibitions include: Visual Art Scotland's Graduate Showcase Glasgow (2023), The Tatha Gallery's Graduate Show, Dundee (2023), RISING STARS, The Royal Society of British Artists (2021); Hampstead Art Society, The Fitzrovia Gallery, London (2021); Room With a View online exhibition, Google Arts & Culture (2020), Works on Paper, Rafiki Gallery, Edinburg (2020); Printmaking Vol. 1, Rafiki Gallery, Edinburg (2021). In 2020, Takemoto's painting Chess Match was longlisted for the 2020 Scottish Portrait Award; and was featured by SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art).