Makiko Kudo was born in Aomori prefecture in 1978. She graduated in painting from Joshibi University of Art and Design in 2002. During the same year, she participated in two group shows, Fragile Figures (Palette Club, Tokyo and Marianne Boesky, New York), curated by Tomio Koyama, and Tokyo Girls Bravo (Nadiff Gallery, Tokyo), curated by Takashi Murakami. At present she lives and works in Kanagawa prefecture.
Read MoreMore recently, she was part of Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art (2009, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, toured to overseas venues), curated by Matsui Midori. After appearing in Pretty Baby at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2007 and MATRIX 213: Some Forgotten Place at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive in 2004, her work was added to those museums' collections. Kudo's paintings have also been acquired by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Olbricht Collection, the Japan Foundation, and the Takahashi Collection.
Text courtesy Tomio Koyama Gallery.
