Makiko Harris

2025

Biography

b. 1989, The Netherlands. Based in London.

Makiko Harris is an interdisciplinary artist exploring feminism, identity, and desire through painting, sculpture, moving image, and sound. Merging symbolic forms and digital processes, her work questions intimacy, spectatorship, and corporeal knowledge.

Exhibitions include Lacquered Rebellion, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, 2024, Confront and Constrain, Ames Yavuz Gallery, Singapore, 2024 and Textiles and the Female Nude, Villa Schöningen, Berlin, 2025. Makiko was selected for the Cass Art Prize 2025, Women in Art Prize 2025, Ingram Prize 2024, HIGH Prize 2023, Sasakawa Foundation grant 2022, and undertook residencies including Arts Connected 2025 and PADA 2024.

Makiko Harris. Photo: Hydar Dewachi

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