DOWNSTAIRS EXHIBITION:

Get Back: Drawing Installations by Briana Miyoko ('15)
September 4 - December 20, 2025

Get back, get back/Get back to where you once belonged - The Beatles

Briana Miyoko’s Get Back exhibition is an intersection of past and present. The new series references an archive of visual content from her 2015 undergraduate film photography contact sheets to her 2018 Montecito Debris Flow charcoal rubbings. Gouache, watercolor, and ink echo specific to filtered pools of pigment on clear-gesso coated and wax-sealed watercolor paper held by steel armature and sewn together to suspend in space. 

Her suspended drawing installation, Yesterday Living, is bordered by ink drawings, film photographs, cyanotype prints, and watercolor paintings that translate poignant to murky memories of a decade-long journey.

Briana Miyoko is a suspended drawing installation artist based in San Diego, California. Her art practice is rooted in the study of ecology and natural disasters. Briana Miyoko earned her M.F.A in Drawing & Painting from California State University, Long Beach (2020), and B.A in Art from Westmont College (2015). She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Palomar College and is earning a M.S. in Educational Technology from California State University, Fullerton (2025).

She was the summer 2022 resident artist at Peace Lily Press & MicroFarm in Long Beach, CA, and the recipient of the Distinguished Achievement in Creative Activity Award, First Place Awardee of the CSULB Research Competition for Creative Arts and Design, and the 2019 recipient of the GRF (Graduate Research Fellowship) at California State University, Long Beach. Notable exhibitions include her 2019 cumulative Kaikoura, New Zealand Earthquake Project, AOTEAROA at the Werby Gallery in Long Beach, CA, 2022 solo exhibition in the Campus Creatives exhibition at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido, CA, and her 2024 and 2025 exhibitions at TECHNE Art Center in Oceanside, CA.