Biography
Hiroki Makino (born 1975, Nagano Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese contemporary woodcut printmaker who trained at Tama Art University in Tokyo and is now based in the city. He is a member of several Japanese print and art organizations, including the Japan Print Association (Nihon Hanga Kyokai), the Japan Art Association, the Japan Design Association, and the Print Society.
His 2025 woodcut 'Floral Clouds in a Crimson Sky' (紅空の雲華, 97 × 67 cm), shown at the 68th CWAJ Print Show in 2025, is characteristic of his mid-career practice: a large-format vertical woodcut presenting a floral motif rendered as cloud-form against a strongly chromatic ground. It is one of a series of works in which he reworks a floral-cloud subject against differently colored skies.
Makino's range of affiliations — spanning fine-art printmaking associations and a design-oriented organization — reflects an active engagement across several institutional channels of Japanese printmaking and visual design. Within the contemporary Japanese woodcut scene he belongs to the generation of Tokyo-based printmakers active through multiple association channels. Beyond the CWAJ catalogue entry and these membership listings, further biographical detail and a fuller exhibition history are not currently surfaced through public-facing online sources.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1975
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Works Indexed
- 1
Frequently Asked Questions
Hiroki Makino (born 1975, Nagano Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese contemporary woodcut printmaker who trained at Tama Art University in Tokyo and is now based in the city. He is a member of several Japanese print and art organizations, including the Japan Print Association (Nihon Hanga Kyokai), the Japan Art Association, the Japan Design Association, and the Print Society.
Hiroki Makino was active born in 1975. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Hiroki Makino's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.