Ai Makita Bibliography

SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

2025

Ai Makita: The Coming World 2025-2075 (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: GYRE Omotesando, 2025.

2023

Ai Makita: What Is Real? (exhibition catalogue). Fukuoka: Kurume City Museum, 2023.

2018

18th. Taro Okamoto Award (exhibition catalogue). Kanagawa: Okamoto Taro Museum, 2018.

SELECTED NEWS AND PERIODICALS

2025

Zellen, Jody. “Ai Makita ‘Metabolizing Machine’” (Baert Gallery exhibition review). ART NOW LA, 18 October 2025.

https://artnowla.com/2025/10/16/ai-makita-metabolizing-machine/

Faulkner, Timea. “Ai Makita on Animism, AI, and the New Materiality of Her Latest Work 'Metabolizing Machine'”, (Baert Gallery exhibition review). Baert Gallery, 26 November, 2025.

https://www.baertgallery.com/press/62-ai-makita-on-animism-ai-and-the-new/

Makita, Ai. “Sublime in the digital age.” Interview by Yosuke Takahashi. Bijutsutecho online, 24 May, 2025.

https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/interview/30760

2023

Makita, Ai. “Dialogue for ART vol.14.” Interview by Hiroyasu Yamauchi. Bijutsutecho online, 14 August, 2023.

https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/interview/oil/26795

2022

Leuzzi, Linda. “A fascination with motorcycles becomes art” Long Island Advance, 15 June, 2022.

https://www.longislandadvance.net/stories/a-fascination-with-motorcycles-becomes-art,90527

Makita, Ai. “Interview: Ai Makita 2022 NYC.” Interview by Robert Anton Patterson. Leafbox, 29 January 2022.

https://www.leafbox.com/interview-ai-makita-2022/

2019

Kitahara, Toru. “Drawing A Wonderful Light” PLEASE, 12 September, 2019. 

2017

Mabanag, Ronald, and Juan, Christopher. “'Sublime rage against the machines: Ai Makita'” (Manifesto Gallery exhibition review), Hand Picked by Ron and Chris, 27 January, 2017.

https://handpickedbyronandchris.blogspot.com/2017/01/sublime-rage-against-machines-ai-makita.html

2013

Shimanuki, Taisuke. “Contemporary Sublime”,  ART NAVI, October 2013.