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Miya Kosowick is a half-Japanese Canadian artist based in London, United Kingdom. She holds a degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of British Columbia and later studied at Chelsea College of Arts, where she began developing an interdisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture and installation.

Kosowick’s work explores identity, belonging and the shifting relationship between controlled and natural environments. Drawing on the Japanese philosophical concept of uchi-soto (内外)- meaning “inside” and “outside”- her practice examines how boundaries between interior and exterior spaces, social groups and cultural identities are constructed and negotiated. She is particularly interested in the spaces that exist between such binaries, where ambiguity and transformation can emerge.

Working with materials including rice paper, wax, canvas, wood and found objects, Kosowick creates installations in which paintings function as portals to imagined worlds. Sculptural elements and fragments of material histories often coexist within these environments, blurring distinctions between the natural and the constructed.

Her muted colour palette draws from the landscapes of her upbringing across British Columbia, Japan and the United Kingdom. Through restrained abstract and figurative gestures, Kosowick produces works that resemble fragile archaeological traces - memories suspended between past and future.

Kosowick received the first annual artist commission from The Glenrothes, and continues to expand her practice through installations and cross-disciplinary collaborations that connect art, space and sensory experience.