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Maiko Kikuchi

Maiko Kikuchi born in Tokyo, Japan. She lives and works in New York.

 

Education

 

M.F.A., Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, 2012.

Major: Sculpture

 

B.A., Centenary College, Hackettstown, New Jersey, 2009.

Major: Individualized Studies, Fine Arts Concentration

 

B.A., Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan, 2008.

Major: Theatre Arts/Design, Fashion Design

 

Additional Study:  Aoyama-Juku Technical College, Tokyo, Japan, 2008.

Emphasis: Drawing and Illustration

 

 

Extensive multi-faceted professional experience in the areas of fashion design, graphic design,Illustration, painting/drawing/sculpture/puppetry/performance. Her recent work has shown in group exhibition“Grab Bag” at Trestle Projects, NY, in performance show “Puppet Slam” at La MaMa, NY, “Labapalooza!” at St. Ann’s Warehouse, NY.

Her drawing/collage works are commissioned to some online art galleries such as Tuuum, The Art Mint and Walls Tokyo. She also performed at Whitney Museum as a performer in live performance show, “The Chair” directed by Theodora Skipitares.

EXHIBITIONS:

 

2015

 

  • Live Performance Show “Co.Venture” by Brooklyn Touring Outfit (Visual set design/Creation) as a Part of Montreal Fringe Festival, Montreal, Canada

  • Live Puppet Performance “Daydream Anthology” (Direction/Creation/Performing) as a part of “Friday Night at BKSD”, Brooklyn Studio for Dance, Brooklyn, New York

  • Online Group Exhibition “Show #25” presented by Field Projects URL: fieldprojectsgallery.com

  • Live Puppet Performance “Daydream Anthology” (Direction/Creation/Performing) as a part of “OPEN” curated by Aki Sasamoto, at Livingston Arts Building, Piscataway, New Jersey

  • Live Puppet Performance “The Erdos Discrepancy”directed by Amanda Friou, (Performer), Dixon Place, New York, New York

  • Group Exhibition(Charity Auction)” Without A Safety Net” presented by Weill Corell Community Clinic, Midtown Loft & Terrace, New York, New York

  • Group Exhibition “The Artist as Provocateur. Pioneering Performance at Pratt Institute”, The Rubelle & Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

 

2014

 

  • Group Exhibition “Grab Bag”, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, NY

  • Live Painting Performance “Rainbow Transistor”(Direction/Performing),Hot Wood Arts, Brooklyn, New York

  • Group Exhibition “Kaleidoscope2” Space 776, Brooklyn, New York,

  • Live Painting “30minutes memorandum”, Northside Festival, Brooklyn, New York,

  • Live Puppet Performance “PINK BUNNY”, (Direction/Creation/Performing) at “Labapalooza!”, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, New York,

  • Improvisational Collaboration Live “Music and Visual Arts”, (Live Painting), Blue Building, New York

  • Two Person show”To See, or Not to be Seen”, Hot Wood Arts, Brooklyn, New York,

  • Live Puppet Performance “The Chair directed by Theodora Skipitares”, (Creation/Performing,) CUNY Graduation Center New York, New York,

  • Group Exhibition “Kaleidoscope” Space 776, Brooklyn, New York,

  • Group Exhibition “Ambush Market Show” Brooklyn Flea, Brooklyn, New York,

 

2013

 

  • Group Exhibition “Winter Salon Show” Space 776, Brooklyn, New York. 

  • Live Puppet Performance“La MaMa Kids: Following The Wind - Tales From The New World /directed by Jane Catherine Shaw” (Performing/Creation.), La MaMa, New York, New York, 

  • Live Puppet Performance“The Chair directed by Theodora Skipitares” (Performing/ Creation) Whitney Museum ,New York, New York 

  • Live Puppet Performance “The Guy I Met in Japan” (Directed/Creation/Performing.) Presented by Puppet Slam, La MaMa, New York. 

  • Art Benefit Group Exhibition “NURTUREart Benefit” Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, New York, 

  • Group Exhibition “Selected Illustrations of TIS Competition vol.11” Gallery 5610 ,Tokyo, 

  • Live Puppet Performance “Daydream Anthology” (Direction/Creation/Performing.) Presented by Puppet Blok, Dixon Place, NewYork. 

  • Live Puppet Performance“The Ionesco Project directed by Theodora Skipitares” (Creation/Performing, ) Humanities Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 

  • Live Puppet Performance“Daydream Anthology”, (Direction/Creation/Performing) Presented by “Labapolooza!” St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, New York, 

  • Group Exhibition “Gallery HANA Selection- Reconstruction 1”, Gallery Hana Shimokitazawa Tokyo, Japan

 

2012

 

Solo Exhibition, “My Neighbor Always Pretends Not to be Home” Pratt Institute Studio Gallery ,Brooklyn, New York,

 

2011

 

  • Group Exhibition, “No Trend”, curated by Jamillah James, Stuben South Gallery, Pratt Institute,

  • Brooklyn, New York,

  • Group Exhibition, “Welcome Show”, Stuben South Gallery, Pratt Institute,Brooklyn, New York,

  • Group Exhibition, The Pratt Harlem Project”, 2280 Frederick Douglass Blvd,New York, New York.

  • Group Exhibition, Hadas Gallery, Brooklyn, New York,

 

2009

 

  • Solo Exhibition, “Super Twins House”, Agee Salon Daikan-yama,Tokyo, Japan,

  • Group Exhibition, Aoyama Book Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan,

 

2008

 

  • Group Exhibition, Aoyama Book Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan,

  • Solo Exhibition”Box- Garden” Musashino Art University Gallery,Tokyo, Japan,

 

2007  Solo Exhibition “Fuyu-No-Onnshitu”, Andon Café Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

2006 Group Exhibition“Deko-Zakka”, Mushashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan,

 

2005  Group Exhibition , “The Frame”, Gallery ES, Tokyo, Japan,

 

COMISSIONED WORK

 

2014

 

Walls Tokyo (online art gallery) (on going)

 

2013

 

  • The ART MINT(online art gallery)   (On going)

  • TUUUM (the first artist-run community for supporting, buying and collecting art.) (On going)

 

2012

 

“FFFFFF Walls” (Interviewed)

 

2009

 

  • Homer-Faber Fashion Designer’s Community Group,  Created Invitation to Fashion Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

  • Coffee no Kaori, Created Marketing/Advertising Post-Card for Coffee Company,Tokyo, Japan,.

 

2008

 

Lamutee Cosmetics, Created Identity Campaign Illustration and Leaflet for Cosmetics Company, Tokyo, Japan

 

2007

 

Go-do-shuppan Publications, Created Book Cover and Illustrations for Book: Watashi Cacaobatake de Hatarakitudukete (I’m Eight Years Old and Working in a Field of Cacao), Authors: Yuka Iwatuki, Tomoko Shiroki, and Tomoko Mizuyori.

ACE (Action Against Child Exploitation) Organization, Created Illustration for the Product Design of a Children’s Game, to raise capital funds for this group’s cause. http://acejapan.org/

 

ARTIST STATMENT

 

Sometimes I fall into a pit somewhere on the boundary between reality and a dream. 

When I was a child, I often had the same dream again and again. 

I am standing in a park and nobody is there. Then I begin to wonder, “Is this reality?” 

Sometimes in daily life I encounter something strange and it reminds me of this dream. 

At that moment I am falling into a pit that is always lurking in my daily life. 

When you are at the supermarket what if a chicken hatches in a package of eggs? 

When you are in the subway, you might realize that instead of the train, it is the platform that is moving. 

When you get home, a huge elephant could be waiting for you in your living room. 

Who can tell?

Daily life has a lot of opportunities for one to enjoy such imagination, 

I call it the pit in oneʼs daily life, where inside it is always strange, funny and uncanny. 

I enjoy the experience, then I make one for you to fall into to.

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