Nishiyama Minako

is a Japanese contemporary artist whose works have dealt with cultures, customs, and the representations of young females in Japanese media and popular culture. Her work is identified with an initial stage of the artistic transformation of post-modern Japanese "cute culture" in which cute images were appropriated and used for critique.

Nationally she has had many solo shows in Okayama, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Fukuoka, and Nishinomiya. In addition to a solo show at the Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot in Paris, France she has participated internationally in group shows in Beijing, China; Madrid, Spain; Rimini, Italy and Portland, Oregon, Minneapolis and Miami in the United States. In 2015 her work was included in the group exhibition "Kawaii" at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, England.

Education Nishiyama Minako works and lives in Hyogo prefecture. She earned a degree in the sculpture major from the Graduate School of Art, Kyoto City University of Arts in 1991. She teaches courses at Kyoto Seika University.