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Maki Hayashida

Maki Hayashida (b. 1984, Japan) is a Tokyo-based visual artist working with photography. Her practice investigates social issues surrounding human consumption and addresses them through photographic works and installations that employ various techniques, weaving fiction and subjective speculation into the narrative. In doing so, her work reexamines human impacts on nature, considering not only the unintended consequences in a social context but also photography’s ambivalent relationship with the environment. Recently, she has focused on techniques that utilize plants and natural materials, reflecting on the materiality and reproducibility of the medium in the digital age.

She graduated from the Faculty of Policy Studies at Kwansei Gakuin University in 2007 and completed an MA in Photography at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, in 2023. Her recent solo exhibitions include “Silent Echoes of the Cedar” at hakari contemporary, Kyoto (2025), and “The 17th shiseido art egg: Water and Mountains” at Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo (2024). She was shortlisted for the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award (2023) and received the Grand Prix at the Singapore International Photography Festival Dummy Book Award (2020). Her work has also been exhibited in photography festivals, including at KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival KG+SELECT (2021) and FORMAT International Photography Festival (2019).

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Education:
2023  M.A., Photography, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (Distinction)
2003  B.A., Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University (Graduated at the top 10)

Selected Awards:
2023  The 17th “shiseido art egg”, finalist (JP)
2023  LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2023, shortlist (FR)

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2025  Silent Echoes of the Cedar, hakari contemporary, Kyoto, Japan
2024  The 17th shiseido art egg exhibiion Water & Mountains: An Wonder-Land on Ecology and Society, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Two-Person Exhibitions:
2025 After all, with Kenji Chiga, RPS Kyoto Paperole, Kyoto, Japan

Group Exhibitions:
2025 New Chapter of Landscape #3 – On the Contemporary Condition of Landscape Photography, YOD Gallery Tennozu, Tokyo, Japan
2024 Takaido Art Festival, Tokyo, Japan
2021 KG+SELECT KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival, Kyoto, Japan

Publications:
2025 Beyond the Mountains, ONE AND ONLY EDITIONS
2024 Wondering Guide: A Wonder-Land on Ecology and Society, Art Beat Publishers supported by FUJIXEROX

Grant:
2025 istyle Art Foundation

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Bibliography

< Essays >
‘Water & Mountains: A Wonder-Land on Ecology and Society’ Soanyway, Issue 17, Autumn 2024.