Artist
Artist
TAKATO Maki
Japan
Profile
Visual artist/Performer
With a background as a professional ballroom dancer, she studied performing arts at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, philosophy at Goldsmiths, University of London, and graduated with honors from an MA in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art. Drawing on a philosophical and folkloric approach, she expresses the relationship between technology, identity, and the body in a variety of media, including space, sculpture, and video. She has also performed at the Victoria and Albert Museum and other venues around the world.
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[Education]
- Royal College of Arts, Information Experience Design (MA Information Experience Design)
- Goldsmiths, University of London, Design and Philosophy
- Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, Performance Design
[Awards]
- Nagoya Foundation for Culture Art Exhibition Encouragement Award 2023
- Exhibition Graphic Design Chairman's Award 2023
- Tokyo Tatemono Brillia Art Award 2022
- Sanwa Art Award President's Special Prize 2022
- Royal College of Art First Class Honours 2018
- London Battersea Park Sculpture Prize 2017
- Rotary Foundation International Global Scholarship 2016
[Excerpts]
2025
Solo exhibition "Dreamy Silver Screen" at Takashimaya Osaka (Osaka)
Osaka Art & Design 2025 (Osaka)
Hiroshima Contemporary Art Salon Fukuya (Hiroshima)
Solo exhibition at Omuro no Mori Gyokusui (Shizuoka)
2024
Stage design for Ayame Juhachiban Theatre Company (Tokyo)
Fukuya Department Store (Hiroshima)
DESIGNART TOKYO (Tokyo)
Solo exhibition at the American Club Frederick Harris Gallery (Tokyo)
GINZA ART SESSION in GINZA SIX (Tokyo)
Tsutaya THE GALLERY GINZA Okurayama (Tokyo)
Yamamotoya Gallery (Kagoshima)
Ginza Mitsukoshi Gallery (Tokyo)
Magpie Gallery (Tokyo)
ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel (Hiroshima)
NEW ENERGY TOKYO (Tokyo)
Osaka Art & Design 2024 (Osaka)
2023
Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival (Osaka)
TERRADA WHAT CAFE Gallery (Tokyo)
Nagoya Cultural Promotion Foundation Juan de Nagoya Art Exhibition (Nagoya)
2022
Tokyo Tatemono THE GALLERY (Tokyo)
Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival (Osaka)
2021
SCIF21, Spiral (Tokyo)
2019 Kudan House/Any Tokyo (Tokyo)
2016-2018 (London)
Open Sense Festival (2018)
Battersea Park Open Air Sculpture Exhibition (2017)
Victoria and Albert Museum (2017)
Science Fiction Exhibition Piccadilly Circus (2017)
Future Design Biofuture Exhibition (2016)
