MAKI UMEHARA

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MAKI UMEHARA

 

Maki Umehara is a visual artist born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. She is currently based in Aichi.

1999 Carnegie Mellon University, exchange study programme. 2000 Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design, BA. 2000-06 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. 2000 guest student, Prof. Christian Megert. 2002 Bunkacho, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, Grants for Overseas Study Programme for Artists (for a 3-year-stay in Düsseldorf). 2006 Pola Art Foundation, Grants for Overseas Study by Young Artists, Japan (for a stay in Düsseldorf). 2006 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Akademiebrief/MA; Meisterschülerin, from Prof. Rita McBride. 2012 Sandberg Institute, MFA. 2016 Tokyo University of the Arts, PhD in Art.

Public collections: The State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ehemaligen Reichabtei Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany, etc.