Sakura Maku
b. Japan
lives and works in New York City
Education
2007 MFA in Painting and Printmaking, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2004 BFA in Illustration and Cartooning, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Exhibitions
2010 Meandros Festival, curated by Peter Hristoff, Priene, Turkey
2010 Synonyms, Cabernet Initiative, New York
2010 NeoIntegrity Comics Edition, curated by Keith Mayerson, MOCCA, New York
2009 Octet: Codes and Contexts in Visual Art, curated by Peter Hristoff and Suzanne Anker, School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York
2009 Radar Eyes A Survey of Hallucinogenic Printmaking, The Space LIC, New York
2009 Grand Champions Forever...Never Say Die, curated by John Breiner, Factory Fresh, New York
2009 Octet, curated by Suzanne Anker and Peter Hristoff, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 Introduction, curated by Vasken Mardikian, Cabernet Initiative, New York
2008 Radar Eyes A Survey of Hallucinogenic Printmaking, curated by SeriPop and Reuben Kincaid, Co Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
also traveled to ArtCar Museum, Houston, TX
2007 NeoIntegrity, curated by Keith Mayerson, Derek Eller, New York
2007 Macronauts, curated by Dan Nadel, Leonidou 15, Athens, Greece
2007 New Mutants, curated by Dan Nadel, Canada, New York
2007 Secret Fire Escape, My Hero, Montreal, Canada
2007 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2007 Hooray, Proposition, New York
2006 Rabid Rabbit, School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York
2006 Words and Pictures Show, curated by Leslie Stein, Secret Project Robot, New York
2005 First Year Exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2005 100 Years of Heimatschutz, Municipal Library, Biel, Switzerland
2005 Storefront/ Forefront, Tower Building, New York University, New York
2004 Grand Champions Forever and Ever, Office Ops, New York
2004 Screened, curated by Gunars Prande, School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York
2004 Suburban Sex and Supermen, curated by Duane Bruton, Westside Gallery, New York
2004 The Baby's Bathwater, Asterisk, New York
2004 November Show, Franklin Peppermint, New York
2003 NeoIntegrity Burnt to a Crisp, Asterisk, New York
2003 American Gothic/ American Noir, PPOW, New York
Publications
2010 NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition, exhibition catalog, Mocca, New York
2010 Windy Corner #3, edited by Austin English, published by Sparkplug Comics
2009 Octet, exhibition catalog, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 Sakura Maku, zine, published by The Holster
2009 Rabid Rabbit Issue #10, published by Rabid Rabbit
2008 Rabid Rabbit Issue #9, published by Rabid Rabbit
2008 Rabid Rabbit Issue #8, published by Rabid Rabbit
2007 Rabid Rabbit Issue #7, published by Rabid Rabbit
2007 NeoIntegrity, exhibtion catalog, Derek Eller, New York
2007 Hooray, exhibition catalog, published by The Holster
2007 Rabid Rabbit Issue #6, published by Rabid Rabbit
2006 Rabid Rabbit Issue #5, published by Rabid Rabbit
2006 Rabid Rabbit Issue #4, published by Rabid Rabbit
2006 Rabid Rabbit Untergrund, Underground Comics Spectabular, published by New York Press
2006 Rabid Rabbit Issue #3, published by Rabid Rabbit
2006 Flash, comic book, self published
2005 Rabid Rabbit Issue #2, published by Rabid Rabbit
2005 Rabid Rabbit Issue #1, published by Rabid Rabbit
2005 Cheebcheebshkaa, comic book, self published
2004 The Purse of the Raisin-god, screenprinted book, self published
Bibliography
2007 Percival, Gustav, Yale School of Art Painting and Printmaking Catalog 2007
2005 English, Austin, Dogsbody, The Comics Journal
Awards
2007 Barry Cohen Scholarship, Yale School of Art
2004 Shakespeare & Co. Grant, School of Visual Arts
2003 Gilbert Stone Award, School of Visual Arts