Ai Makita Biography
1985 Born in Chiba, Japan
Works and lives in New York, U.S.A. and Tokyo, Japan
EDUCATION AND WORK
2008 Tsukuba University, B.F.A. in Art and Design, Tokyo
2010 Tokyo Gakugei University, M.F.A. in Oil painting, Tokyo
2013 Tokyo University of Arts, M.F.A. in Art and Education, Tokyo
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2025
Ai Makita: Metabolizing Machine, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, September 13–October 18, 2025.
Ai Makita: Form and Matter, Tokyo 8min, January 18–February 11, 2025.
2024
Ai Makita: Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God, PARCEL, Tokyo, September 21–October 27, 2024.
Ai Makita: Prosthetic Gods, The Something Machine, New York, May 11–July 7, 2024.
2022
Ai Makita: Interspecies, Mitsukoshi Contemporary, Tokyo, October 12–October 24, 2022.
Ai Makita: Tectonic Shifts, The Something Machine, New York, June 11–August 26, 2022.
Ai Makita: Species, Tsutaya Book Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo, April 2–May 15, 2022.
2021
Ai Makita: Luminous Beings, haku Kyoto, Kyoto, November 20–December 5, 2021.
Ai Makita: Hyperdimension, mhPROJECTnyc, New York, June 19 - July 25, 2021.
2020
Ai Makita: Artifact, Mitsukoshi Nihombashi, Tokyo, September 16–September 21.
2019
Ai Makita: Ai Makita exhibition”Forms”, Chiba bank gallery, Tokyo, January 18–February 11, 2019.
2017
Ai Makita: Works in New York, Spiral, Tokyo, August 17–September 3, 2017.
2015
Ai Makita: Behave As a Named Existence, Roentgenwerke AG, Tokyo, May 9–June 6, 2015
2013
Ai Makita: 13・17, Ai Kowada Gallery, Tokyo, October 5–October 26, 2013.
Ai Makita: SIGNS OF LIFE, Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo, August 28–September 4, 2013.
2012
Ai Makita: Jewels, Gallery Kunimatsu, Tokyo, April 12– April 22, 2012.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
On your marks, get set, go!, Kunstforum Baloise-Park, Basel, November 10, 2025–May 22, 2026.
A Thousand Way to Objecthood, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Taiwan, March 8–July 27, 2025.
The Coming World 2025-2075, GYRE Omotesando, Tokyo, February 11–March 16, 2025. (Catalogue)
2024
Backscatter, Chilli Art Projects, London, October 31–November 24, 2024.
The Corner Show, D.D.D.D pictures, New York, June 21–July 27, 2024.
2023
Echoes from New York, Lurf Museum, Tokyo, May 3–June 12, 2023.
What Is Real?, Kurume City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, February 11–April 2, 2023. (catalogue)
The Mind Roams: Abstraction for a New Age, St, Joseph’s University, New York, March 23–April 28, 2023.
Art Cake Resident Showcase, Art Cake, New York, March 11–April 7, 2023.
Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2023, Osaka, Japan, February 10–12, 2023.
2022
Between Before and After, San Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan, February 19–April 2, 2022.
Origins, Doingud Gallery, Metaverse, September 17–28, 2022.
2021
Out of the Blue, ANA Intercontinental Tokyo, May 18–July 27, 2021.
Endless., Tokyo International Gallery, February 9–March 27, 2021.
2020
Adventures of F, A-Lab Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan, December 19, 2020–February 7, 2021.
This is now, ANA Intercontinental Tokyo, November 5, 2020–February 8, 2021.
2019
Assorted Chocolates, ANA Inter Continental Tokyo, October 1, 2019–January 14, 2020.
Self-Portrait as Mirror-Mirror as Self-Portrait, Artinformal, Manila, August 10–24, 2019.
2018
Shuttlecock, ANA Inter Continental Tokyo, June 20–September 17, 2018.
Ignorance and Visualization, Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo, February 23–March 18, 2018.
2017
Silos, ART3 Gallery, New York, July 11–21, 2017.
In Organic: Emerging Japanese Artist in New York, Residence of Japanese Ambassador, New York, March 2017.
2016
Chronicle,Chronicle!, Creative Center Osaka, Japan, January 23–February 19, 2016.
2015
Sou-zou Kaigan INAGE, Gallery Inage, Chiba, August 11–16, 2015.
Speak Soft, Listen Hard, Gallery Underground, Manila, February–July 2015.
18th. Taro Okamoto Award, Okamoto Taro Museum, Kanagawa, February 3–April 12, 2015.
2014
HYOH-BYOH KOH-JUTSU chapterV, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, June 6–15, 2014.
1st. Terrada Art Award, T-Art Gallery, Tokyo, March 28–April 13, 2014.
2013
TOH-KAI KOH-JUTSU chapterIV, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, June 6–Jun 16, 2013.
Graduation Show, Museum of Tokyo National University of The Arts, January 28–February 2, 2013.
2012
C-DEPOT 2012 Tokyo-Yokohama, Red Brick Warehouse, Kanagawa, Japan, September 27–October 8, 2012.
Art Award Next 2012, Tokyo Art Club, Tokyo, September 19–23, 2012.
2011
Nine Colors, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo, April 26–May 8, 2011.
PUBLIC/CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Museum of Tokyo National University of Arts, Tokyo
Chiba Bank, Chiba City, Japan
Takahashi collection, Tokyo
AWARDS
2026
18th. Prisma Art Prize finalist, Il Varco srl, Rome, 2026.
2017
Fellowship grant from Pola Art Foundation, Pola Art Foundation, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, 2017.
2015
The 18th. Taro Okamoto Award, Taro Okamoto Museum, Tokyo, 2015.
Artistic Cultural Award in Chiba City, Chiba City Foundation, Japan, 2015.
2014
Prize at the 1st. Terrada Art Award, Warehouse Terrada, Tokyo, 2014.
2013
Selected for Collection Prize at Graduation Show, Tokyo University of The Arts, Tokyo, 2013.
RESIDENCIES
2025
Vermont Studio Center, Artist in Residence, Vermont, U.S.A.
2023
The Fores Project, Artist in Residence, London
2020
ART CAKE, Artist in Residence, New York
2018–2019
SS Vallejo, Varda Artist in Residency, Sausalito, U.S.A.
2017
Residency Unlimited, Artist in Residence, New York