Miyu Hosoi

Miyu Hosoi (b. 1993) is a sound artist whose practice centers on sound installations and theatrical works. 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, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum 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 in The Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei
  • 2025 FALLOUT / Akeroyd Collection
  • 2023 Taiwan Cultural Technology Conference / Kaohsiung Music Center, Taiwan
  • 2022 CHAUMET Exhibition Botanical / Place Vendôme, Paris, France
  • 2017 Forever Fornever / Rhode Island College, Bannister Gallery, USA
Group Exhibition - Japan
  • 2026 From the Ancient to the Present Times VI / Gallery38, Tokyo
  • 2025 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 Yoshihide Otomo “Otomo Yoshihide Ensembles 2025” / Enoura Observatory
  • 2025 Gallery Show / Gallery 38, Tokyo
  • 2025 Unseen presence, Invisible traces Exhibition / Ōkuma Incuvation Center (OIC), Ōkuma Town, Fukushima
  • 2024 Gallery Show / Gallery 38, Tokyo
  • 2024 ICC Annual 2024 – Faraway, so close / NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]
  • 2024 Playground Becomes Dark Slowly / Hibiya Park
  • 2023 Perception / Gallery 38, Tokyo
  • 2022 Sense Island – The Art Island in Darkness / Sarushima
  • 2021 Agency for Cultural Affairs CULTURE GATE to JAPAN / Tokyo International Haneda Airport
  • 2021 Open Space 2021: New Flatland / NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]
  • 2020 MIND TRAIL Okuyamato / 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
  • 2019 Acoustical Society of Japan Symposium: Week of Sound / Institut français Tokyo
  • 2019 Open Space 2019: Another Perspective / NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]
  • 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 Miyu Hosoi + Satoru Higa / 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) / ARTRA2025, 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 2024, 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

  • 2020 New Face Award at the 23rd Japan Media Art Festival Art Division (Agency for Cultural Affairs – Japan)
  • 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

Others

Writing
  • 2025 Les BELLES LETTERES INTERNATIONALES de L’ART FABER
  • 2025 Shincho June Issue / Essay “Trying to Live After My Death” 
  • 2020-2024 Sound&Recording Magazine Serial Column
Interview
  • 2026 VOGUE JAPAN March Issue / “Creators Who Wear, Portray, and Amplify Society”
  • 2026 Numéro TOKYO March Issue / “Women Creating the ‘Now’”
  • 2026 ADF web magazine / Tangent: Shiro Takatani and Miyu Hosoi in conversation 🔗 Read more
  • 2025 Barbican Centre / Feel the Sound exhibition catalogue 🔗 Buy here
  • 2025 BRUTUS January Issue / “The New Generation Talents Discovered by Ryuichi Sakamoto”  🔗 read more
  • 2025 th products / Artist Wardrobe “Being on the museum and being me. 🔗 Read more
  • 2025 Sound & Recording Magazine April Issue / Feature – Film “Underground” Director Kaori Oda × Miyu Hosoi 🔗 read more
  • 2024 Bijutsu Techo / “The Silence Sound Created by Sound Artist Miyu Hosoi” 🔗 read more
  • 2024 Agency for Cultural Affairs MACC / 100 Years of Art and Technology Talk #8 – “Sounds Miyu Hosoi Wants to Preserve” 🔗 read more
  • 2024 Pen January Issue / Pen CREATOR AWARDS 2023
  • 2023 Sound & Recording Magazine November Issue / Feature – Interviews on “Constellation Manual” and “Starting Point” Exhibitions at Nagano Prefectural Art Museum
  • 2023 Sony / Playing Time: Miyu Hosoi
  • 2023 BRUTUS March Issue / “Shun Ishiwaka – The Musician Who Talks and Is Talked About”
  • 2021 Forbes Japan December Issue / “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 February Issue / “100 Newcomer Artists Shaping the 2020s”
  • 2021 GINZA March Issue / “The Person I’m Most Curious About”
  • 2019 Film Art, Inc. / Kaminotane: “For New Awareness Through Sound” An Interview with Miyu Hosoi
Conference / Talk
  • 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 Workshop, Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art + YCAM
  • 2020 Audio Engineering Society New York Convention 2020
  • 2020 Audio Engineering Society Vienna Convention 2020
Sound
  • 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”, Place Vendôme, Paris
  • 2022 CCBT (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) – Sound Logo
  • 2020 Audio Game Center, Sound Logo (Voice)