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Kazuko Miyamoto: To perform a line at Japan Society is the first institutional exhibition to survey the significant artist Kazuko Miyamoto (b. 1942). The exhibition brings together key bodies of the artist’s work, beginning with her contributions to (and subversion of) the Minimalism movement through early paintings and drawings from the late 1960s and moving to her increasingly spatial string constructions of the 1970s, culminating with her kimono series from 1987 through the 2000s. In this image: Kazuko Miyamoto, Untitled, 1971 © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo.

Kazuko Miyamoto, Untitled, 1978. © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo.

Kazuko Miyamoto, Untitled, 1979. © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo.

Kazuko Miyamoto with assistant creating string constructions in her studio at 181 Chrystie Street, 1970s. Courtesy of the artist and Zürcher Gallery, New York/Paris.

Kazuko Miyamoto, Archway to Cellar, PS1 installation, 1978. © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist; EXILE, Vienna.

Kazuko Miyamoto, Archways to Cellar, 1977. 1 of 10 photographs. © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist; EXILE, Vienna.

Kazuko Miyamoto, Artist installing at Galleria Allesandra Bonomo, 1973. © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist; EXILE, Vienna.

Kazuko Miyamoto, Bell Bridge, Wards Island, 1980. © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist; EXILE, Vienna.

Kazuko Miyamoto, Installation in Bryant Park, 1982. © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist; EXILE, Vienna.

Kazuko Miyamoto, Gallery Onetwentyeight, 1995. © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist; EXILE, Vienna.

Kazuko Miyamoto, Go, 1971. © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist; EXILE, Vienna.

Kazuko Miyamoto in her studio at 117 Hester Street, date unknown. © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist; EXILE, Vienna.

Kazuko Miyamoto with string constructions. Courtesy of the artist and Zürcher Gallery, New York/Paris.

Kazuko Miyamoto, Male, 1974. © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist; EXILE, Vienna.

Kazuko Miyamoto, Untitled, 1973, installation at the Penthouse at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist; EXILE, Vienna.

Kazuko Miyamoto, Red Kimono, 1998. © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist and private collection.

Kazuko Miyamoto, Paper Kimono, 1990. © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist and Zürcher Gallery, New York/Paris.

Kazuko Miyamoto, String around a cylinder of my height (foreground), 1977. © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist; EXILE, Vienna; Take Ninagawa, Tokyo.