Signed
Concept Drawing for Sea of Time-TOHOKU
Limited Editions of 35 / Signed & Numbered / Framed, Shipping include
This drawing was made when the Sea of Time – TOHOKU project—conceived in response to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and envisioned to involve 3,000 participants—had begun to take shape. After a series of workshops and once a potential installation site had been identified, Miyajima revisited and refined the concept of the work.
Compared to the initial stage, the ideas had become more specific and advanced, including subtle variations in the colors of the LEDs.
- Year
- 2025
- Medium
- Archival Pigment Print
- Sheet Size
- 573 x 769 mm
- Editions
- 35

Tatsuo MIYAJIMA
宮島達男
Born in Tokyo in 1957. Completed postgraduate studies at Tokyo University of the Arts in 1986. Since his debut in Aperto ’88 at the Venice Biennale, he has been recognized as one of Japan’s foremost contemporary artists and has exhibited widely in Japan and internationally.
He represented Japan at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and has held major solo exhibitions at leading institutions including Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (1990), Hayward Gallery, London (1997), Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (2000), Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2002), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (2004), Art Tower Mito (2008), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (2016). His works are held in the collections of Tate, London; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; among others. He has also realized large-scale public art commissions such as for TV Asahi at Roppongi Hills, Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Tokyo Opera City, and Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul.