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For the past two years I’ve been focusing on making figurative paintings that place East Asian and Asian American diasporic experiences at their starting points. Femininity and motherhood are themes that orbit the work and amplify women painting women while investigating intricate topics and uncertainty. The figures in my paintings are inclusive of East Asian intercultural and Asian American interracial identities, not as a reductive means but to open space for variated and off center loci that offer ways of imagining idiosyncratic experiences and forgotten histories. I look to art of the past as entry points to dream about the confusion of diaspora.

Sakura Maku was born in Ibaraki, Japan and raised in Chiba, Southern California and Central Florida. She studied art at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and received an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale School of Art. Sakura Maku currently lives and works in New York City.