— Makiko Furuichi
Born in 1987 in Kanazawa, Japan, Makiko Furuichi has been living and working in France since 2009. A graduate of the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nantes and Kanazawa College of Art, she dedicates herself to watercolor, painting, and drawing. She also explores installations and sculptures using various materials such as ceramics, cement, and dyed or printed fabric. Her works include gigantic murals with fantastical atmospheres.
In 2018, she received the City of Nantes Visual Arts Award. She regularly exhibits in Europe and Asia, with solo exhibitions at the Frac des Pays de la Loire in 2018 and at Carré, Scène nationale de Château-Gontier in 2021. She also created the work Dream Jungle for the Voyage à Nantes and a 53-meter mural in a troglodyte cave during the Ackerman + Fontevraud residency in 2022. Her publishing work includes more than fifteen personal and collective publications, ranging from comics to artist's books. She decorated a nearly one-ton bell for the Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud and exhibited at the Marc Chagall Museum in Nice in 2023 for the museum's fiftieth anniversary. For the past three years, she has been creating drawings for Angers-Nantes Opéra, including the cover of their season program.
In 2024, she is presenting a solo exhibition at the MASC, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Les Sables d’Olonne, and creating a 170 m² floor mural for the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nantes.