Miya Sukune is a visual artist based in Washington State’s Puget Sound region whose research-driven practice explores identity, place, and community through memory, storytelling, and historical inquiry. Drawing from personal recollections, family narratives, and archival records, her work examines the shifting boundaries between myth and truth embedded in collective and individual memory.

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Since 2015, Sukune has exhibited widely across the United States and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Searching for Saito at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Seattle (2024), and How to Be Whole at the Vy Biel Gallery on Vashon Island (2022). Her international exhibitions include Kotikaupunki / Hometown in Mänttä, Finland, developed during the Serlachius Residency in 2021.

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Sukune has received recognition through inclusion in the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Public Art Artist Roster. Her awards include a 4Culture Art Project Grant, Seattle’s Hope Corps award, and the Bernie Funk Artist Explorations Scholarship from Pratt Fine Arts Center. Through the Hope Corps program, she created Searching for Saito, a historical fiction graphic novel documenting the life of Japanese immigrant elder Rinzo Saito and the history of Seattle’s Chinatown-International District.

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Her public artworks include the Matsuda Family panels based on Mary Matsuda Gruenewald’s Looking Like the Enemy memoir.