Born in Kanazawa, Japan, in 1987, Makiko Furuichi lives and works in France. She is a graduate of the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (2011) and the Kanazawa College of Art in Japan (2009).

Although she experiments with various media, Makiko Furuichi always seems to be captivated by painting, mainly oil on canvas and watercolour on paper, but also mural painting, ceramics, video and textiles. Makiko Furuichi's subjects - grimacing faces, thieving little hands, ticklish, slender and mischievous - come from a tragic-comic world imbued with a feeling that the Japanese call "niyari", close to the spirit of the grotesque. She draws and paints the characters that float around in her head, part of her dreams, her repressed manga imagination or the media reality that sometimes obsesses her. These visions hatch without warning, at once sympathetic and cruel, gentle and terrifying, crossed by the presence of animals and plants. His paintings unfold in generous, invasive installations designed specifically for the venues in which they are exhibited.