Ohkojima Maki

1987 Born in Tokyo, Japan

2009 Graduated from the Painting Department of Joshibi University of Art and Design with a bachelor's degree

2011 Graduated from the Painting Department of Joshibi University of Art and Design with a master's degree

Currently works and lives in Tokyo

SOLO EXHIBITION

2015  

Dear Birds - Sing the songs of the ground, through my bones, Dai-ichi Life South Gallery, Tokyo

2014 

 Wild Light, Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo 

2013  

Chanting Gene, VOLCANOISE, Tokyo 

GROUP EXHIBITION

2015 

2015 Art Nova 100, Beijing

Sakuragaoka Museum, Aichi

Qusamura ×10, NADiff, Tokyo

2014  

Art Line Kashiwa, Chiba

Earth Art Project, Ladakh

The Vision of Contemporary Art 2014  

Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

Island View, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo 

Ohkojima Maki:  What we can know about the world is like what we see of an iceberg floating in the sea. I tell a storywhen I make a work of art, in itrevealing the depth of the unseen world. I endeavor to make the viewer take the first step in noticing the fact that we only have partial knowledge of the world in which we live.

Animals, water, and the sun are all made from small elements cannot be seen by the naked eye.

A stone has two sides, the surface that we can see and the underside that remains hidden.  Sometimes we might even need to break it apart in our imagination to truly understand its nature.