Exhibition: Ian Miyamura Greater New York 2026

For the sixth edition of MoMA PS1’s Greater New York, Ian Miyamura presents a suite of recent paintings from three of his ongoing and disparate series, demonstrating the range of his practice. Included in his presentation are one of his most meticulous and complex compositions from his signature Warhammer still life series; here a miniature display of ghoulish, military vainglory. down the line, also carries an implicit critique as the graphically distorted letters of his “Taste paintings” here display a jumbled “State.” Following his attention to the doubling of mimicry and pairing, he debuts an installation of strange relatives in the form of seven pairs of uneven checkerboard grids, in sequence from grayscale to full color. Across all his chosen styles, Miyamura executes with painstaking technique and a studious attention to the historical contexts each one references. Ian Miyamura (b. 1991 Kailua, HI; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013, and an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019. Solo exhibitions include They Learned to Look Up and Down, Bureau, New York, NY (2025); Chaos Spawn, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Bureau at the Paris Internationale, Paris, France (2023); OCTOBER 31, 4th Ward Project Space, Chicago, IL, 2022. Group exhibitions include EVIL RAT / LIVE ART / EVIL ART / LIVE RAT, Echo Extra Echo, New York, NY (2026); Everything looks dark now, Bel Ami, Los Angles, CA (2026); Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR, (2025); My Condolences, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, (2023); A Tournament of Lies, The Wassaic Project, Wassiac, NY, (2022). In 2021, Miyamura attended MASS MoCA’s artist residency program as a fellowship recipient. In 2022 he was awarded a FST Studio Projects Fund grant. He is a recipient of the Luminarts Cultural Foundation of Chicago Fellowship (2013), as well as the LeRoy E. Hoffberger Foundation Fellowship (2019).