Minako Nishiyama (西山 美なコ, Nishiyama Minako, born 1965 in Hyōgo prefecture) is a Japanese contemporary player whose works have dealt in imitation of cultures, customs, and the representations of teen females in Japanese media and popular culture. Her con is identified past an initial stage of the artistic transformation of post-modern Japanese “cute culture” in which delightful images were appropriated and used for critique.
Nationally she has had many solo shows in Okayama, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Fukuoka, and Nishinomiya. In auxiliary to a solo play-act at the Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot in Paris, France she has participated internationally in organization shows in Beijing, China; Madrid, Spain; Rimini, Italy and Portland, Oregon, Minneapolis and Miami in the United States.
Since the arrival of the 1990s she has been making sculptures, paintings and installations using a transient material such as sugar past a clever luscious pink red to pink color that evaporate and dissolve higher than time. Her used of sugar and proficient pink color take in hand to the stereotypical representations or images of cuteness or kawaii of youthful Japanese female. In 2015 her be active was included in the society exhibition “Kawaii” at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, England.
Nishiyama Minako works and lives in Hyogo prefecture. She earned a degree in the sculpture major from the Graduate School of Art, Kyoto City University of Arts in 1991. She teaches courses at Kyoto Seika University.
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