Yone Makino
Bio
Yone Makino is a visual artist who graduated in Painting from the Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes (ENSABAP). She has experience in museum assistance and collaboration on curatorial projects. Her artistic practice is based on the research and interpretation of memory, identity, the passage of time, and diaspora. In her painting, she explores materiality through intuition and gesture to create narratives about everyday life, the nostalgia of remembering, and reflections on identity.
She held the solo exhibition No dejes que la nostalgia te consuma (2025) at Espacio Encuentro and has participated in a duo project, as well as various group exhibitions in Lima, Arequipa, Miami, and France. She was part of the VII Salón de Arte Joven Nikkei at the Centro Cultural Peruano Japonés (2023) and is currently preparing her second solo exhibition.
Statement
Identity and memory are fundamental principles in Yone Makino’s artistic practice. Drawing from her ancestry and family history, migration and fleeting stays, as well as notions of belonging and otherness, the artist expresses an intimate and symbolic imaginary. She (re)constructs landscapes of melancholy and reverie, reclaims alternative collective subjectivities, and intertwines poetics of affection, experiences, and memories, reflecting on personal and family narratives. Metaphorical, dreamlike, magical, and moving, her work carries an aura of longing, shelter, and connection: (re)living what did not happen and (re)encountering your present self.
Additional information
Tríptico
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
