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Sakura Maku is an artist working in painting, print, drawing, installation, and comics. The figures in her work can be viewed as people of an Asian diaspora. The narrative settings in which the artist places these figures invite a critical discourse of environments that casually exclude East Asian intercultural and Asian American interracial identities. There are elements sourced from Indonesian manuscript painting and Japanese woodblock prints, as well as artifacts found at the local Japanese grocery store visually incorporated within the work. In some instances, the figures have animal or plant-based heads, such as those that are found in ancient and mythological stories.

Sakura Maku received an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale School of Art. She currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts (2014-present) in New York City and has taught at SUNY Purchase (2015-2021).