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Miya Kosowick
Miya Kosowick (b. 1998, Prince George, Canada) is a Japanese-Canadian artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture and installation.
Kosowick explores the tension between the controlled and natural worlds creating installations that merge painting, sculpture, and found objects. Drawing on the Japanese concept of uchi-soto (inside-outside), her work investigates shifting perceptions of space, identity, and cultural authenticity through imagined environments and archaeological memory. Influenced by landscapes from British Columbia, Japan, and the UK, she creates fragmented artefacts, blurring time and place through wax-sealed surfaces and delicate materials.
Kosowick holds a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of British Columbia. She was awarded the UAL International Postgraduate Scholarship and recently graduated with Distinction from Chelsea College of Arts. She is the recipient of the inaugural Glenrothes Salon Commission showing her work as a part of Art Week Tokyo 2024.
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By Miya Kosowick
Wrought iron welded fence, natural rust and foliage from the garden, sculpted wax, black metal paint
100cm x 98cm 2025
By Miya Kosowick
Oil on canvas
150cm x 120cm
2025
‘Corroded forms, at times ornamental, at others defunct, gesture towards a forgotten purpose, or a ritual never quite complete’
- The Second Ruin
This wrought iron fence was first created and welded as part of a larger installation Partial Attempts at Recontextualization (2022), which recreated elements of a terraced home and incorporated a found window. After the exhibition, the fence remained in my back garden for over a year, where weeds wound themselves around each bar, now only skeletal traces remain, and the metal slowly rusted in the weather. The piece was later exhibited in London earlier this year at an exhibition titled The Second Ruin.
Today marks its third iteration, now accompanied by a custom jesmonite cast that allows the structure to stand independently, detached from its former contexts. In this form, To Salvage is perhaps the most fragmented it has ever been, once again recontextualized upon new ground.
By Miya Kosowick
Jesmonite, wax, acrylic, wood
12cm x 8cm