KYUGORO book
9th Singapore International Photography Festival 2024
Photobook Showcasse
The National Design Centre
18 - 27 October 2024
ヒステリー [Hysteria]
RCA 2024
Royal Collage of Art, London U.K.
A graduating exhibition showcases some works from ヒステリー [Hysteria] project and related works.
Details are shown here.
20 - 23.06.2024
Salon Blanc International Exhibition of Contemporary Art
National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Selected to exhibit her recent mix media work, ALL GONE, I AM ALONE.
12 - 24,.06.2024
PICTURE IMPERFECT
York Theatre Royal, York U.K.
A public exhibition in collaboration with The Island, a local charity. This community exhibition is to showcase not only photography taken remotely during the pandemic but also the very first short film MAKIKO has made with all the handwritings from her workshop at the youth centre when COVID-19 restrictions were easing up. The film includes her original ambience recording of the city of York as well.
08.04 - 27.04.2024
BJP International Photography Award exhibition
Seen Fifteen Gallery, London U.K.
The group exhibition of the winning image titled “Drifting Icebergs” from MAKIKO’s on-going “氷 Koori” project shot on retreating Sólheimajökull glacier in Iceland.
30.04. - 22.05.2021
7th Singapore International Photography Festival 2020
Photobook Showcase
After having successful exhibitions in U.K. and Japan, MAKIKO published the exhibition series “Paradise Revisited” as “BATTLESHIP ISLAND” from Dewi Lewis Publishing. It was shortlisted for the Best Published Photobook at the 7th SIPF 2020.
11.2020 - 01.2021
The photobook was chosen for SIPF’s Roving Photobook Showcase and touring at the following locations:
Busan International Photo Festival, South Korea 08 - 09.2021
The Reference, Seoul South Korea 10.2021
Paris Plein Soleil
Paris Plage, Paris France
Selected out of 1,200 submissions for the outdoor group exhibition organised by Ville de Paris and Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP). MAKIKO’s early work titled, “One Summer Day in Jardin du Luxembourg” was exhibited.
28.07. - 27.08.2020
Food For Being Looked At
The Photographers Gallery, London, U.K.
Packing lunchboxes for a child with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) was a challenge. A collective image of the lunch boxes MAKIKO prepared from January to December 2011. This experimental project was given by Alex Majoli of Magnum Photos.
07 - 10.2017
TRAILS TO PRAYER
London School of Economics, London U.K.
Exhibited the project on an uninhabited Nozaki Island with a history of “hidden” Christians, sponsored by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and in association with LSE Arts.
Voies-Off, Arles France
Exhibited “TRAILS TO PRAYER” and unpublished work shot in Yakushima Island in collaboration with Maison Rucher during Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles France.
Paradise Revisited (BATTLESHIP ISLAND series)
London School of Economics, U.K.
Exhibited the 26 images shot on Battleship Island, a 3DCG multimedia presentation, a 3D printed construction model and others. Collaborated with Nagasaki City and Nagasaki University, Japan. Sponsored by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and in association with LSE Arts.
Bunkamura Box Gallery, Tokyo Japan
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka Japan
Showcased at the most prestigious venues in the East and the West of Japan. Sponsored by Plenus, the largest Japanese restaurant franchise company and Nishinippon Shimbun.