SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 December 7, 1941 - February 22, 2025, Hawthorn Contemporary, Milwaukee, WI
Acknowledgment (permanent public commission), Baird Center, Milwaukee, WI
Homage: Honoring Those Who Came Before, Jazz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Tears Shaped Like Watermelon Seeds, Hawthorn Contemporary, Milwaukee, WI
2023 Pause/Connect, curated by Lisa Hostetler, Warehouse Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2022 Friend or Foe (solo exhibition), OS Projects, Racine, WI
Then They Came for Me, Jewish Museum Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2021 Light Conversation, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
Collaborating with the Archive (Curated by Mary Statzer), Filter Space, Chicago, IL
2020 Art + Protest, Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Artists for Action, The Alice Wilds Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
On the Nature of Wisconsin, The Warehouse Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2019 Kuroshio (solo exhibition) Fine Arts Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI
Among the Wonders of the Dells: Photography, Place, Tourism, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
Milwaukee Influencers, Var Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Mary L. Nohl Suitcase Fund Exhibition, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
2018 Health Club, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Echo, (solo exhibition) Workspace Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Family Albums: Kith and Kin in Focus, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
Accused of No Crime: Japanese Incarceration in America, ReflectSpace, Glendale, CA
Tree Talk, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2017 Then They Came for Me, Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, IL
Camp Home (solo exhibition), Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, MI
Markers of Time: Critical Mass Top 50, Artwork Network Gallery, Denver, CO
Perimeter, Schlitz Audubon Nature Center, Milwaukee, WI
2016 INFOCUS Juried Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks, Phoenix Art Museum
Camp Home (solo exhibition), Bush Art Center, St. Norbert College, Green Bay, WI
On The Shelf, Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL
Welcome: Page by Page, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
2015 77 Ashevillians, Window - re/production re/presentation, Asheville, NC
Pacific Midwest 2.0, Inova/ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Perimeter (solo exhibition), Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI
Identity Check: Works in Contemporary Photography, Union Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Collection Project, Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, WI
2014 Camp Home (solo exhibition), James Watrous Gallery, Madison, WI
INFOCUS Juried Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks, Phoenix Art Museum
23 Pineapples, Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
People and the Land, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Kevin J. Miyazaki and Jon Yamashiro, Stockton College Art Gallery, Atlantic City, NJ
2013 Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Pacific Midwest, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
Camp Home, California Institute of Integral Studies Billboard Project, San Francisco, CA
Perimeter (solo exhibition) Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
2011 Shutter, Union Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Clampdown: Labor, Management, and the Recession, Zaller Gallery, Cleveland, OH
This Is What Democracy Looks Like, Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Repercussions: Tides & Time, Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Rapids, MI
2010 Repercussions: Tides & Time, SOIL gallery, Seattle, WA
Repercussions: Tides & Time, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
Here and Now, (one-night installation) Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2009 It's Still Life, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
Photo-Op, Photo Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Fountain of Youth, (one-night installation) Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2008 Big, Big Bangs/Small, Small Bucks, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Very Small Observations, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
Mary L. Nohl Fellowship For Individual Artists, Inova, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Photography Midwest, Madison, WI
Fast Food, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ
EDUCATION
1990 B.A. Graphic Design, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2009-present Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, adjunct faculty
GRANTS
2020 Greater Milwaukee Foundation (with Mary Louise Schumacher)
Milwaukee Arts Board New Work award (with Mary Louise Schumacher)
2014 Mary L. Nohl Suitcase Export Fund
2007 Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for Individual Artists
COLLECTIONS
Center for Photography at Woodstock
Museum of Wisconsin Art
Haggerty Museum of Art
St. Norbert College
Northwestern Mutual Insurance
Warehouse Art Museum
We Energies Foundation Art Collection
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2009-2017 Founder of collect.give, a charitable online photography gallery that raised over $60,000 by selling
affordable prints by over 80 artists. www.collectdotgive.org
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2015 Center for Photography at Woodstock
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Among the Wonders of the Dells: Photography, Place, Tourism University of Wisconsin Press, J. Tyler Friedman
2015 Yonsei (artist’s book)
2014 Perimeter (monograph), Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2014
2013 A Guide to Modern Camp Homes: 10 New Plans & Designs for Persons of Japanese Ancestry, (artist's book)
2009 American Youth, Rome: Contrasto
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Deep Listening Project Helps Milwaukee Reflect on Democracy, by Mary Louise Schumacher, Nieman Reports, April 29
Interview (with Mary Louise Schumacher), Lake Effect, WUWM, April 2
“What Does Democracy Look Like?” by Lindsay Anderson, Milwaukee Magazine
2017 14 Photos That Illumine a Dark Chapter of U.S. History, www.nationalgeographic.com, February 17
2016 Rule Breakers: Kevin J. Miyazaki, Don't Take Pictures, December 19
2015 Interview, Wisconsin Life, Wisconsin Public Radio, January 30
2014 Interview, Central Time, Wisconsin Pubic Radio, October 30
2013 Interview, To the Best of Our Knowledge (Jim Fleming), Public Radio International, October 27
2013 Art City Asks: Kevin J. Miyazaki, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 10
A Museum-Sponsored Road Trip by Holly Stuart Hughes, Photo District News, April
Perimeter, Wisconsin People & Ideas, Spring/Summer
2013 A Return to Roots by Grace Ali, Nueva Luz Photographic Journal, Volume 16, #2
2013 Photographer Looks at the Human Dimension of Lake Michigan, On The Commons, August 29
2011 Photography Meets Philanthropy, Time Magazine Lightbox Blog, http://lightbox.time.com
2011 Ten Minutes with Kevin J. Miyazaki, This Is The What, July 7
Photographer Visits Father’s Former Internment Camp, Turnstyle News
2010 Photo Philanthropy: Giving Back With Prints, photoshelter.com, December 1
Interview with Kevin J. Miyazaki of collect.give, Chicago Art Collector
2009 La Dallman: Fabricated Landscapes, University of Wisconsin Press
2008 Home: Known and Unknown by Karin Higa, Japanese American National Museum (catalog)
Camp Home: Tule Lake Today by Stewart David Ikeda, IMDiversity.com, May
SELECTED ARTIST LECTURES
American Studies Association, Cardinal Stritch University, Carroll College, City of Cincinnati Artist Reaching Classrooms, Coalition of Photographic Arts Milwaukee, Columbia College Chicago, Earlham College, Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers, Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Hope College, Institute of Visual Arts at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Japanese American Citizen's League, Madison Area Technical College, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami University (Ohio), Metropolitan Community College - Omaha, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, University of Iowa, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Northern Kentucky University, St. Norbert College, Society for Photographic Education, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin Veteran's Museum