CV | Miyu Hosoi

Miyu Hosoi

Miyu Hosoi (b. 1993) is a sound artist whose practice centers on sound installations and theatre pieces. Through her projects, she explores both the possibilities and limitations of sound as a medium of communication. In recent years, she has also engaged in research-based projects in Japan and abroad, focusing on the memories and records of places, objects, and people.
Her work has been presented at the Barbican Centre(London), IRCAM(Paris), Mori Art Museum(Tokyo), Tokyo International Haneda Airport, Tokyo Metropolitan Hibiya Park, and Rohm Theatre Kyoto, among others.

Exhibitions

Group Exhibition - Overseas

2026 Trenčín 2026 (Trenčín, Slovakia)
2025 Feel the Sound (Barbican Centre, London)
2025 IRCAM Forum (IRCAM – Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, France)
2025 IRCAM Forum (The Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei)
2025 FALLOUT (Akeroyd Collection)
2023 Taiwan Cultural Technology Conference (Kaohsiung Music Center, Taiwan)
2022 CHAUMET Exhibition Botanical (CHAUMET Place Vendôme, Paris)
2017 Forever Fornever (Rhode Island College, Bannister Gallery, USA)

Group Exhibition - Japan

2026 From the Ancient to the Present Times VI (Gallery38, Tokyo)
2025-2026 Roppongi Crossing 2025: What Passes Is Time. We Are Eternal. (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo)
2025 Agir pour le vivant (Institut français du Japon, Tokyo)
2025 Otomo Yoshihide Ensembles 2025 (Enoura Observatory)
2025 Gallery Show (Gallery38, Tokyo)
2025 Unseen presence, Invisible traces Exhibition (Ōkuma Town, Fukushima)
2024 Gallery Show (Gallery38, Tokyo)
2024 ICC Annual 2024 – Faraway, so close (NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo)
2024 Playground Becomes Dark Slowly (Tokyo Metropolitan Hibiya Park)
2023 Perception (Gallery38, Tokyo)
2022 Sense Island (Sarushima Island, Yokosuka)
2021 Agency for Cultural Affairs CULTURE GATE (Tokyo International Haneda Airport)
2021 Open Space 2021: New Flatland (NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC])
2020 MIND TRAIL (Tenkawa Village, Nara)
2020 Born Creative Festival (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre)
2020 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival Award-winning Works Exhibition (Miraikan – The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo)
2019 Acoustical Society of Japan Symposium: Week of Sound (Institut français Tokyo)
2019 Open Space 2019: Another Perspective (NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo)
2017 Nuit De La Philo (Institut français Tokyo)

Solo Exhibition

2025 Trusted Silence (Daikokuya, Nasu)
2024 STAIN (Gallery38, Tokyo)
2023 起点 – Starting Point (Nagano Prefectural Art Museum)
2023 Constellation Manual (Nagano Prefectural Art Museum – Collection)
2020 Lenna (Sapporo Cultural Arts Community Center [SCARTS])
2019 Lenna (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM])

Theatre Piece

2025 World Operator (ROHM Theatre Kyoto)
2025 Tangent – Shiro Takatani/Dumb Type (Theatre YOUNG, Shanghai)
2024 Tangent – Shiro Takatani/Dumb Type (La Biennale di Venezia – Biennale Danza 2025, Teatro Malibran, Venice, Italy)
2024 Tangent – Shiro Takatani/Dumb Type (European Capital of Culture Tartu, Vanemuine Theatre, Tartu, Estonia)
2024 Tangent – Shiro Takatani/Dumb Type (ROHM Theatre Kyoto)
2023 辿り着いたうねりと遠回りの巡礼 – Nuthmique+Miyu Hosoi (Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater)
2022 Theater Idioms (Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater)
2021 波のような人 – Nuthmique+Miyu Hosoi (Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater)
2019 Sound Mine – Miyu Hosoi+Shun Ishiwaka+YCAM (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM])

Awards

2022 Pen Creator Award
2021 Forbes Japan 30 Under 30
2020 Agency for Cultural Affairs Japan – 23rd Japan Media Art Festival Art Division : New Face Award
2019 the 26th Japan Professional Recording Award : High Resolution division : Excellence Award
2019 the 26th Japan Professional Recording Award : High Resolution division : New Prominent Master Award
2019 Shure24 : a definitive list of creators pushing the limits of contemporary audio culture

Others

Writing

2026 Shincho Mar. “Nénette”
2025 Les BELLES LETTERES INTERNATIONALES de L’ART FABER
2025 Shincho Jun. “Trying to Live After My Death”
2020-2024 Sound&Recording Magazine Serial Column

Interview

2026 VOGUE JAPAN Mar. The sound Miyu Hosoi creates
2026 Numéro TOKYO Mar. Miyu Hosoi Interview: “To Hear What Cannot Be Heard.”
2026 ADF Tangent: Shiro Takatani and Miyu Hosoi in conversation
2026 Hoseki Miyu Hosoi “VOICE AS LANDSCAPE”
2025 Barbican Centre Feel the Sound exhibition catalogue
2025 BRUTUS Jan. The New Generation Talents Discovered by Ryuichi Sakamoto
2025 th products Being on the site and being me.
2025 Sound&Recording Magazine Apr. Film “Underground” Director Kaori Oda × Miyu Hosoi
2024 Bijutsu Techo The Silence Sound Created by Sound Artist Miyu Hosoi
2024 Agency for Cultural Affairs MACC 100 Years of Art and Technology Talk #8 – “Sounds Miyu Hosoi Wants to Preserve”
2024 Pen Jan. / Pen CREATOR AWARDS 2023
2023 Sound&Recording Magazine Nov. / Interviews on “Constellation Manual” and “Starting Point” Exhibitions at Nagano Prefectural Art Museum
2023 Sony / Playing Time: Miyu Hosoi
2023 BRUTUS Mar. / The Musician Who Talks and Is Talked About
2021 Forbes Japan Dec. / The Voice of a New Generation Artist Noticed by MoMA Curators
2021 KAIAK 城市美學新態度 / Miyu Hosoi – A Flourishing Soundscape, a Brilliant New Media Art
2021 Bijutsu Techo Feb. / 100 Newcomer Artists Shaping the 2020s
2021 GINZA Mar. / The Person I’m Most Curious About
2019 Film Art / Kaminotane: For New Awareness Through Sound – An Interview with Miyu Hosoi

Sound

2026 Film “After the Sea Passes By” directed by Ryo Noda, Music by Yoshihide Otomo (participating with voice/electronics)
2025 Film “Underground” Directed by Kaori Oda
2025 Tokyo Arts and Space(TOKAS) – Audio Guide
2024 Boid Magazine – Sound Logo
2023 Playstation5/4/VR「HUMANITY」- Voice
2022 CHAUMET “Botanical”
2022 CCBT (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) – Sound Logo
2020 Audio Game Center, Sound Logo (Voice)

Conference / Talk / Workshop

2026 Mori Art Museum: “Time Passes, We Remain Eternal” Exhibition – Viewing Event with Students from a School for the Blind
2025 Nuthmique『彼方の島たちの話』After Talk, Setagaya Public Theatre
2025 IRCAM Forum, Paris
2025 High-Immersion Sound Design, Tokyo University of the Arts
2023 XD Program, Keio University
2022 “PARAMETRIC ARCHITECTURE”, Università Iuav di Venezia
2021 “Building Memories” by Miyu Hosoi, SEKISUI HOUSE – KUMA LAB, The University of Tokyo
2020 “Practical Design Language”, Keio University
2020 Audio Engineering Society New York Convention 2020
2020 Audio Engineering Society Vienna Convention 2020
2020 “音景クルーズ” Workshop, Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art + Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]
2020 “音景クルーズ” Workshop, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]
2019 “Sound Mine” Backstage Tour, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]