Bio

Mieko Hara was born in Oita Japan. She lived in Tokyo from 1987 to 1996, working as a freelance illustrator for publishers such as, Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan, Sony music magazines, Player, Rockin On, Latina and for record companies, Sony Music, Toshiba EMI.

She has provided art illustration, comics and short stories for prominent Japanese bands such as Unicorn, Checkers, Yoshiyuki Ohsawa, Senri Oe and Hoppy Kamiyama. One of her original works is in the collection of the Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento.  Most recently she has created CD cover art for the group Sentinel.
 
She left Japan on 1996 and briefly lived in Sydney, Australia and Oahu, Hawaii before settling in Manhattan where she continued studies at The Art Student League from 1998-2001. She traveled throughout Europe and South East Asia before moving to California in 2003 where she studied at California College of Art. She currently lives and works in Oakland. 

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2011
RECLAMATION:Studio Quercus, Oakland, CA

2010
CD cover art for Sentinel
East Bay Open Studios. Uptown Gallery , Oakland, CA
Box Art. Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Visual Aid. SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Green:Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

2009
Red:Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley,CA
On the Cutting Edge: West Coast Artists Using Collage and Assemblage. Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
Visual Aid. SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Box Art. Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Seed Corn Gallery, Berkeley, CA
East Bay Open Studios. Uptown Gallery, Oakland, CA
Studio Visit Magazine Volume 5. Juror Michael Klein, former curator of the Microsoft Art Collection and former Director of the International Sculpture Center

2008
Annual Exhibition . Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
East Bay Open Studios. Uptown Gallery, Oakland, CA
Adaptation. Silkarts Gallery, Walnut Creek , CA
Valley Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

2007
Annual Exhibition . Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
East Bay Open Studios. Uptown Gallery, Oakland, CA

2006
Viral. LoBot Gallery, Oakland, CA