Takaya Miou

Takaya Miou is a Japanese manga artist born in Nagoya, Japan. Her career began in 1991, with the self-publication of Sei Shojo Yugi. Her art blends surrealism, eroticism, fantasy, horror, as seen in the image of an almost nude disemboweled young man. She had her first solo gallery exhibition in 2016 at the Honolulu Museum of Art under the title, Visions of Gothic Angels: Japanese Manga by Takaya Miou. Her publications include:Endorphins, the Substance of Pleasure, 1993 King of Mechanics, 1993The Great Frog Michael, 1994 Her, 1995 Ribs of the Sky, 1997 The Mathematical Structure of Beautiful Faces, 1997 Holy Boys and Other Flightless Angels, 1998 The Fountain of Death, 1998 Eroticize Intelligence, 1999 Map of Sacred Pain, 2001 The Madness of Heaven, 2001 Uranomania, 2003 Demon Child in Hell, 2003 Troubled Lord, 2003 Rosette, 2004 Child Recipe Book, 2004 A Billion Cubes of the Species, 2005 Gabriel and Beelzebub, 2006 From Off My Bones, 2007 The Lunacy Act, 2007 Endorphins, the Substance of Pleasure, Vol. 1, 2014 Rose Crown, 2014 Endorphins, the Substance of Pleasure, Vol. 2, 2015 Alexithymia, 2015