Born in Kobe City.
Completed the postgraduate course of Kyoto City University of Arts
Lives and works in Kyoto

Solo Exhibitions
1993
“The White Casket” Art Space Niji, Kyoto
1994
“Looking for the next story” Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto
1997
“Criterium 31” Contemporary Art Center/Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
2000
“Miwa Yanagi” Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
2002
“My Grandmothers” Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
“Miwa Yanagi” Istituto Giapponese di Cultura in Roma, Rome, Italy
“Granddaughters” Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo 
“Miwa Yanagi” Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
“My Grandmothers” Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka
2003
“My Grandmothers” Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany
“Miwa Yanagi” Galería Leyendecker, Canary Islands, Spain
2004
“Miwa Yanagi-Sammlung Deutsche Bank” Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
“Granddaughters” Lille 2004, Lille, France
“Darkness of Girlhood & Lightness of Aging” Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
“Fairy Tale” Galería Leyendecker, Canary Islands, Spain
2005
“The Incredible Tale of the Innocent Old Lady and the Heartless Young Girl” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
“Madame Comet” Yurinso,Ohara museum of Art, Okayama
2007
“Miwa Yanagi” Chelsea Art Museum, New York
2008
“Miwa Yanagi” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Group Exhibitions
1994
“ART NOW ’94” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo
1995
“Contemporary Art from Galleries ’95” Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
1996
“Prospect ’96” Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
“Art in Flux IV: Oh, My ‘Japanese Landscapes’?” Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
1997
“Lust und leere” Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
“Future Recollections” Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
“Du Construit, du Paysage” Centre Regional d’Art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète, France
“Moment Ginza” Forgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
“Cities on the Move” Secession, Vienna, Austria and World Tour
“Legende” Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète, France
1998
“Subterranean” Gallery Nikko, Tokyo
“Taipei Biennial: Site of Desire” Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
“Women Photographers from Japan 1864-1997: An Incomplete History” Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, USA
“Max Mara Japan Art Collection” Max Mara Japan, Tokyo
“Between the Unknown Straits -Art Now in Japan and Korea-” Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Art,
 Osaka; The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
“Technotherapy -Produced by Yasumasa Morimura-” Central Public Hall, Osaka
“Taste and Pursuit: Japanese Art in the 1990s” National Museum, New Delhi, India; Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines
1999
“The Vision of Contemporary Art ’99” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
“Visions of The Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset” National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
“A Window, Inside and Outside” Kwangju City Art Museum, Kwangju, Korea
“Melbourne International Biennial: Signs of life” Melbourne, Australia
“Fancy Dance: Contemporary Japanese Art after 1990” Art Sonje Museum, Kyongju; Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
“Third SITE Santa Fe International Biennial Exhibition: Looking for a Place” Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA
“A Sense of Reality” Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi
2000
“Freeze” Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Elysian Fields” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
“Department Store of Contemporary Art” Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi 
“Japan Medium Light” Montevideo: Time Based Arts, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“GENDAI: Contemporary Japanese Art - Between Body and Space” The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2001
“Complicity (Connivence), Biennale de Lyon 2001Prelude to 2003” Lyon, France
“YOKOHAMA 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art” Yokohama  “Senritsumirai: Futuro Anteriore; Arte attuale dal Giappone” Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
“NEO-TOKYO: Japanese Art Now” Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2002  
“Chameleon Dreams: Trans / Forming Identity in Contemporary Japanese Photography” Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago, USA
“Biennal of Sydney: The World May Be (Fantastic)” Sydney, Australia
“Chicas vs. Abuelas” Photo Espana, Madrid, Spain
“Future Plan” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo
2003
“Girls Don’t Cry” Parco Museum, Tokyo
“The History of Japanese Photography” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
“The American Effect” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
“Location of the Spirit; Japanese Contemporary Art” Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2004
“Roppongi Crossing: New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 2004” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
“TAKARAZUKA: The Land of Dreams”  Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka; Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
“Self-Portrait Landscape”  Woo Je Gil Museum, Kwangju, Korea
2005
“CHIKAKU”  Kunsthaus Graz
“Growing Old~The forms and Aesthetics of Aging~”  Fukushima museum
“Shanghai Cool”  Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art
“Fashion & Style in Photography 2005”  the museum Moscow House of photography
2006 “Slow Tech” Museum of contemporary Art Taipei
“Enjoyable House” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art 
“Gwangju Biennale: Fever Variations” Gwangju, Korea
2007
“Tsubaki Kai Ten” Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
“ATTITUDE 2007 - The House of Human Being” Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto
“Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan” 798 Dashanzi Art District, Beijing
“Shanghai eARTs festival - Doll House” XuHui Art Museum, Shanghai
2008
“Still/Motion: Liquid Crystal Painting“ Mie Prefectural Art Museum (The National Museum of Art Osaka, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography) 
“Tsubaki Kai Ten” Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo

Prizes
1998
First Prize: Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Award (Photographic Resource Center at Boston University)
1999
VOCA Prize, The Vision of Contemporary Art ’99 (The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo)
Kyoto City Artist Prize
Higashikawa Prize (Higashikawa, Hokkaido)
2000
Sakuya-Konohana Prize (Osaka City)
2001
Kyoto Prefectural Artist Prize
2004
Hyogo Prefectural Artist Prize
2006
Takashimaya Art Prize