Born in 1987, Maki Ohkojima grew up in Higashikurume (Tokyo) in Japan. She received a Master’s degree from the Department of Painting at the Joshibi University of Arts and Design in 2011 and has exhibited in Japan, China, Poland, Mexico and India.
She is currently making paintings of the constellations for the planetarium of the Tamarokuto Science Center (west Tokyo) and will voyage aboard Tara between Guam and Yokohama (January 28- March 19), expressing through her painting a unique and magnified vision of the ocean.
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