Miyako Tengyu grew up surrounded by varrious books in a secondhand bookshop run by her parents. Tengyu has been captivated by the magic of printed words and applied that power to her artistic practice. Inspired by myths and stories, she combines them into her own sequences of a story. Those images look like something familiar but still something new. Rather than using canvas, Tengyu often works with familiar materials such as fabric and leather, aiming to eliminate the distance between the stories embedded in her works and the viewers themselves.
Miyako Tengyu was born in Osaka, Japan in 1989 and currently lives and based in Osaka Japan. In 2015, Tengyu received an M.F.A in Textile from Kyoto City University of Arts.
Besides her own solo projects, Tengyu has Zine project Motel with Yuki Hasegawa. She also curated several exhibitions such as 'Curse and Celebration' at Kunstarzt.