ARTROでは、2026年6月6日から7月5日まで、牧田愛の個展「First Shadows, Then Reflections, Then the Things Themselves」を開催いたします。 ARTRO is pleased to present Ai Makinta's solo exhibition "First Shadows, Then Reflections, Then the Things Themselves", from Jun. 6 to Jul. 5, 2026. --- 私の制作は、機械と身体、デジタルとアナログ、そして虚像と実像の境界を探求するプロセスです。かつて技術への畏怖から始まったこの探求は、近年、AIとの対話や多様な物質との混交を経て、さらなる広がりを見せています。 本展のタイトル「First Shadows, Then Reflections, Then the Things Themselves」は、プラトーの「洞窟の比喩」を起点としながら、私自身の制作における物理的な現象と、世界の認識の仕方を重ね合わせたものです。 三次元の作品が落とす「影（Shadows）」、鏡面のような絵画層が放つ光の「反射（Reflections）」、そしてそれらが一つの実体として立ち上がる「物自体（The Things Themselves）」。二次元と三次元、有機と無機を行き来する作品群を、京都の古民家という歴史ある空間に一つの事象として編み上げました。 AIという非物質的な知性から汲み上げられたイメージが、油彩の身体性や立体的な質量を伴って変容していく過程。その断片が交錯するこの場所で、無機質な人工物が固有の代謝を始め、新たな魂が宿っていく。 牧田愛 My practice is a process of exploring the boundaries between machine and body, digital and analog, and the virtual and the real. This inquiry, which began with a sense of awe toward technology, has expanded in recent years through a dialogue with AI and the mixing of diverse materials. The title of this exhibition, First Shadows, Then Reflections, Then the Things Themselves, takes Plato's Allegory of the Cave as a starting point, layering it with the physical phenomena of my own production and the way we perceive the world. The shadows cast by three-dimensional works, the reflections of light emitted from mirror-like layers of paint, and the things themselves that emerge as singular entities—these works, moving between two and three dimensions, the organic and the inorganic, are woven together as a single event within the historical space of a traditional Kyoto house. It is a process in which images drawn from a non-material intelligence like AI undergo a metamorphosis through the physicality of oil paint and three-dimensional mass. In the intersection of these fragments, inorganic artifacts begin their own metabolism, and a new soul takes root. Ai Makita
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牧田愛
Ai Makita
Biography 1985 Born in Chiba, Japan 2008 Tsukuba University, B.F.A. in Art and Design 2010 Tokyo Gakugei University, M.F.A. in Oil painting 2013 Tokyo University of Arts, M.F.A. in Art and Education 2014-2018 Professor of production of children’s literature in the Department of Early Childhood Education at Tokyo Seitoku College 2016- Artistic supporter in a project of Agency for Cultural Affairs which aim to support the artistic work for disability people Solo Exhibition 2025 Metabolizing Machine, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles 2025 Form and Matter, Tokyo 8min, Tokyo 2024 人工的神々 -Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God-, PARCEL, Tokyo 2024 Prosthetic Gods, The Something Machine, New York 2022 Interspecies, Mitsukoshi Contemporary, Tokyo 2022 Tectonic Shifts, The Something Machine, New York 2022 Species, Tsutaya Book Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo 2021 Luminous Beings, haku Kyoto, Kyoto 2021 Hyperdimension, mhPROJECTnyc, New York 2020 Artifact, Mitsukoshi Nihombashi, Tokyo 2019 Ai Makita exhibition”Forms” Chiba bank gallery, Tokyo 2018 Reflect on 10 years, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano 2017 Works in New York, Spiral, Tokyo Gradation, Gallery Vask, Manila Moving, Gallery Inage, Chiba 2015 Behave As a Named Existence, Roentgenwerke AG, Tokyo 2013 13・17, Ai Kowada Gallery, Tokyo SIGNS OF LIFE, Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo 2012 Jewels, Gallery Kunimatsu, Tokyo Group Exhibition 2025 On your marks, get set, go!, Kunstforum Baloise-Park, Basel, Switzerland 2025 A Thousand Way to Objecthood, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Taichu 2025 The Coming World 2025-2075, GYRE Omotesando, Tokyo 2024 Backscatter, Chilli Art Projects, London 2024 The Corner Show, D.D.D.D pictures, New York 2023 Echoes from New York, Lurf Museum, Tokyo 2023 What Is Real?, Kurume City museum(touring exhibition), Fukuoka 2023 The Mind Roams: Abstraction for a New Age, St, Joseph’s University, New York 2023 Art Cake Resident Showcase, Art Cake, New York 2023 Study:Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2023, Osaka 2022 Between Before and After, San Gallery, Tainan 2022 Origins, Doingud Gallery, Metaverse 2021 Out of the Blue, ANA Intercontinental Tokyo, Tokyo 2021 Endless., Tokyo International Gallery, Tokyo 2020 Adventures of F, A-Lab Amagasaki, Hyogo 2020 This is now, ANA Intercontinental Tokyo, Tokyo 2020 Art Cake Online Group Presentation, Art Cake, New York 2019 Self-Portrait as Mirror-Mirror as Self-Portrait, Artinformal, Manila 2019 Assorted chocolates, ANA Inter Continental Tokyo, Tokyo 2018 Shuttlecock, ANA Inter Continental Tokyo, Tokyo 2018 Ignorance and Visualization, Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo 2017 Silos, ART3 Gallery, New York In Organic: Emerging Japanese Artist in New York, Residence of Japanese Ambassador, New York 2016 Chronicle,Chronicle!, Creative Center Osaka, Osaka 2015 Speak Soft, Listen Hard, Gallery Underground, Manila Sou-zou Kaigan INAGE, Gallery Inage, Chiba 18th. Taro Okamoto Award, Okamoto Taro Museum, Kanagawa 2014 1st. Terrada Art Award, T-Art Gallery, Tokyo HYOH-BYOH KOH-JUTSU chapterⅤ, Spiral Garden, Tokyo 2013 TOH-KAI KOH-JUTSU chapterⅣ, Spiral Garden, Tokyo Graduation Show, Museum of Tokyo National University of The Arts, Tokyo 2012 Art Award Next 2012, Tokyo Art Club, Tokyo C-DEPOT 2012 Tokyo-Yokohama, Red Brick Warehouse, Kanagawa 2011 Nine Colors, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo Art Fair 2024 Tokyo Gendai, Pacifico Yokohama, Kanagawa 2019 Taipei Dangdai, Taipei Nangang District, Taipei 2018 Art Miami, One Herald Plaza, Miami 2018 Art Fair TOKYO2018, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo 2017 Art Taipei 2017, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei 2016 Art Taipei 2016, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei 2015 Infinity Japan Contemporary Art Show, Shin Kong Mitsukoshi, Taichu 2014 Art Nagoya 2014, Westin Nagoya Hotel, Nagoya 2013 Art Fair TOKYO2013, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo 2012 Art Fair TOKYO2012, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo Art Taipei 2012, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei 2011 Art Kyoto 2011, Hotel Monterey Kyoto, Kyoto Residency 2025 Vermont Studio Center, Vermont 2023 The Fores Project, London 2020 ART CAKE, New York 2019 Varda Artist in Residency, Sausalito 2018 Varda Artist in Residency, Sausalito 2017 Residency Unlimited, New York Award 2017 Fellowship grant from Pola Art Foundation 2015 Prize at the 18th. Taro Okamoto Award, Taro Okamoto Museum 2015 Artistic Cultural Award in Chiba city, Chiba city foundation 2014 Prize at the 1st. Terrada Art Award, Warehouse Terrada 2013 Selected for Collection Prize at Graduation Show, Tokyo National University of The Arts Important Private and Public Collections Museum of Tokyo National University of Arts Chiba Bank Takahashi collection