ARTIST
AI MAKITA
Ai Makita was born in 1985, in Chiba, Japan. Graduated from Tokyo University of Arts, M.F.A. in Art and Education in 2013. Makita is a Tokyo based visual artist who uses artificial objects such as machine, metallic objects and plastics as her motif. She has attempted to create organic images in her paintings by using inorganic motifs. Her main concern is to represent boundaries between artificial and natural, 2D and 3D in her work. She got an M.F.A. of Tokyo National University of the Arts in 2013, her painting was selected for a permanent collection at the Museum of Tokyo National University of the Arts. Recently, she participated in a residency program in New York, and during that period, was selected as an exhibitor at the Consulate General of Japan in New York, where her paintings were exhibited for two months.
Makita has received numerous awards, fellowships, and residency programs, including the Terrada Art Award(Tokyo), Taro Okamoto Award(Tokyo), POLA Art Foundation(Tokyo), ART CAKE (New York) and the Varda Artist in Residency(Sausalito).
BIOGRAPHY
- 1985
- Born in Chiba, Japan
- 2008
- Graduated from Tsukuba University, B.F.A. in Art and Design
- 2013
- Graduated from Tokyo University of Arts, M.F.A. in Art and Education
CV
- 2017
- Fellowship grant from Pola Art Foundation
- 2015
- Prize at the 18th. Taro Okamoto Award, Taro Okamoto Museum
Artistic Cultural Award in Chiba city, Chiba city foundation - 2014
- Prize at the 1st. Terrada Art Award, Warehouse Terrada
- 2013
- Selected for Collection Prize at Graduation Show, Tokyo National University of The Arts
EXHIBITIONS
- 2020
- Solo Exhibition “Artifact” Mitsukoshi Nihombashi, Tokyo
“This is now” ANA Inter Continental Tokyo, Tokyo
“Art Cake Online Group Presentation” Art Cake, New York - 2019
- Solo Exhibition “Forms” Chiba bank gallery, Tokyo
“Assorted Chocolates” ANA Inter Continental Tokyo, Tokyo
“Self-Portrait as Mirror-Mirror as Self-Portrait” Artinformal, Manila - 2018
- Solo Exhibition “Reflect on 10 years- Ai Makita” Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano
WORKS
Ai Makita
Add layers – Shadow,
2016Oil painting, Canvas, Panel, Shaped panels
H163×W163cm(flat)
Ai Makita
Backbone,
2017Oil painting, Canvas, Panel
H63×W127cm
Ai Makita
Composition-Landscape,
2020Oil painting, Canvas, Panel
H100×W100cm
Ai Makita
Crowd,
2017Oil painting, Canvas, Panel
H101×W101cm
Ai Makita
Sudden Attack,
2017Oil painting, Canvas, Panel
H203×W152cm (trapezoid)
Ai Makita
Crustal movement,
2020Oil painting, Canvas, Connection Panel
H130×W320cm
