宮﨑 優（みやざき ゆう）
1973年、大阪生まれ。本名 呉榮子(Oh_yongja)。大阪府立港南高等学校美術科卒業。鉛筆、色鉛筆、アクリルなど様々な画材で制作を続け、2015年より独学で日本画を始める。「女性は最も身近で美しい、生命の神秘を感じる存在」という思いから、女性像を中心とした制作を行っている。現在山口県在住。
略歴
2011
初個展「軌跡」（アートスペース亜蛮人 大阪）
2015
独学で日本画の制作を開始
2016
『美人画づくし』（芸術新聞社 監修・池永康晟）掲載
2018
第9回アダチUKIYOE大賞 大賞受賞
木版画「花ざかり」出版
2019
Seed 山種美術館 日本画アワード2019 入選
NHKドラマ『浮世の画家』劇中画制作
『美人画づくし 弐』掲載
NHK日曜美術館「"浮世の画家"を描く〜カズオ・イシグロの小説に挑む現代作家〜」出演
2020
第8回郷さくら美術館「桜花賞展」奨励賞受賞
2021
NHK日曜美術館「美人画の神髄〜歌麿の技の錦絵〜」出演
2022
初の画集『宮﨑優画集 つむがれゆく縁』（芸術新聞社）を刊行
2023
映画『岸辺露伴 ルーヴルへ行く』劇中画制作・日本画指導
木版画「櫛にながるる黒髪」出版
『美人画づくし 和装篇』掲載
2025
木版画「黄昏」出版
主な発表・取扱画廊
SASAI FINE ARTS（東京・銀座）
Yu Miyazaki
Born in Osaka in 1973. Her real name is Oh Yongja. Graduated from the art department of Osaka Prefectural Konan High School
After working in pencil, colored pencil, acrylic and other media, she began studying nihonga (Japanese painting) on her own in 2015.
Believing that women are the closest and most beautiful beings, in which she senses the mystery of life, she focuses her work on images of women.
She currently lives in Yamaguchi, Japan.
Biography
2011
First solo exhibition "Trajectory" (Osaka)
2015
Began studying nihonga (Japanese painting) on her own
2016
Featured in "Bijin-ga Zukushi" (Geijutsu Shinbunsha, supervised by Yasunari Ikenaga)
2018
Grand Prize, the 9th Adachi UKIYOE Award
Published the woodblock print "Full Bloom -Hanazakari-" in collaboration with the carvers and printers of the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints
2019
Selected for the Seed Yamatane Museum of Art Nihonga Award
Created paintings for the NHK television drama "An Artist of the Floating World"
Featured in "Bijin-ga Zukushi II"
Appeared on NHK's Sunday Art Museum (Nichiyo Bijutsukan) in a feature on "An Artist of the Floating World"
2020
Encouragement Award, the Sato Sakura Museum Oka Award Exhibition
2021
Appeared on NHK's Sunday Art Museum (Nichiyo Bijutsukan), "The Essence of Bijin-ga"
2022
Published her first art book, "Yu Miyazaki Artworks: Tsumugareyuku En" (Geijutsu Shinbunsha)
2023
Created paintings and provided nihonga instruction for the film "Rohan at the Louvre"
Published the woodblock print "Rich Black Hair Flowing Through Her Comb"
Featured in "Bijin-ga Zukushi: Waso-hen"
2025
Published the woodblock print "Twilight"
Galleries
SASAI FINE ARTS (Ginza, Tokyo)
Kitaoka Gihodo — NORTH HILL GALLERY (Nagoya)