Mizuki Nishiyama (B. 1998, Hong Kong), is a London-based, mixed-Japanese artist who holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Central Saint Martins and a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from Parsons School of Design. She creates raw and confrontational artworks spanning paintings, sculptures, tapestries, poetry, and performances that explore the fragile human condition. Nishiyama notably conducts dialogues and critiques the socio-politics of the female experience by incorporating the artist's Japanese paternal soil, which has buried her military ancestors since the 1400s, into her works, where she reevaluates ancestry, patriarchy, and time. Exploring ideas of purity, femininity, Shintoism, and trauma; the artist utilises the elements of the world, and responds to what it means to be a woman today. Embracing deeply personal experiences to craft each artwork, the artist’s ongoing relationship with reproductive health and trauma has greatly influenced her practice and fueled her to confront vulnerability, fragility and the human condition. Creating is a chaotic yet meditative process for Nishiyama that allows her to make sense of the more tempestuous periods in life as well as continue to merge interdisciplinary thoughts and mediums to visualize the contemporary experience. As a mixed-Japanese artist, Nishiyama draws inspiration from the East and West. Bridging her Hong Kong, Japanese and Italian cultural heritages.
Her solo exhibitions include Shunga (2020) at Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong, An Exploration of Human Fragility: Love & Lust (2020) at the Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, and 脆い Moroi: An Exploration of Human Fragility (2019) at Greenpoint Gallery New York.
Her group exhibition include A Quiet Room, A Place in Your Heart, Woaw Gallery, Singapore, (2024); En Route, 3812 Gallery, Hong Kong (2024); London Light, M P Birla Millenium Gallery, London, UK (2024); Remapping Reality, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong ( 2024); Red, performance, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK (2024); Quiet Shores, Vibrant Swells: The Young Waves from East Asia, European Cultural Academy, Venise, Italy (2023) ; Purity, Performance, Ode to Proteus, Gillian Jason Gallery, London, UK (2023).