Peeking Through a Cactus, 2023

About the Artist

Maiko Kikuchi (b.1983, Japan) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice is Influenced by her psychoanalyst father. Maiko became interested in the boundary between dreams and reality. When she was little, she started creating based on the idea of making “visible daydreams”. She received her B.A in Theater Arts and Fashion Design from Musashino Art University in 2008, and soon after, she moved to the United States to study fine arts, receiving an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Pratt Institute in 2012. Maiko lives and works in New York, USA.