Briana
Miyoko
Bio
Briana Miyoko
Briana Miyoko is a California-based visual artist who specializes in suspended drawing installations. Her art practice is rooted in the study of ecology and natural disasters.
She was the Summer 2022 resident artist at Peace Lily Press & MicroFarm in Long Beach, CA. The recipient of the Distinguished Achievement in Creative Activity Award, First Place Awardee of the CSULB Research Competition for Creative Arts and Design, and the 2019 recipient of the GRF (Graduate Research Fellowship) and California State University, Long Beach. Notable exhibitions include her 2025 exhibition, Get Back, at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art in Santa Barbara, CA, 2025, 2022 exhibition in the Campus Creatives exhibition at the California Center of the Arts in Escondido, CA, 2019 cumulative Kaikoura Earthquake project, AOTEAROA, at the Werby Gallery in Long Beach, CA, and 2019 scrapped & scarred exhibition at the Merlino Gallery in Long Beach, CA.
Briana Miyoko earned her M.F.A. in Drawing & Painting from California State University, Long Beach, and her B.A. in Art from Westmont College. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Palomar College.
Pieces
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Artist's Statement
Briana Miyoko’s work is an immersive dive into the resilient landscapes of her exterior and interior worlds. She uses a diverse array of materials - gouache, charcoal, and ink-coated cotton paper for their malleable identities. These materials are steeped like tea, left to pool, dehydrate, and leave evaporative impressions.
The suspended drawing labyrinth, Immersion, exists as a floating passage that invites viewers to navigate Briana Miyoko’s memory of diving with a swarm of fur seals in New Zealand, the pandemic-induced interruption of her 2020 MFA thesis exhibition, and her ongoing journey with grief.
Immersion is bordered by mixed-media drawings, cyanotype prints, and a site-specific drawing installation, Caved In.