Maho Takahashi

MAHO TAKAHASHI

Born in Katori City, Chiba Prefecture in 1992, she is an artist active in the same region. She runs Studio ANOKO, based in the former Higashi-Odo Nursery School, where she creates her artworks. Studio ANOKO operates as an artist studio and cultural hub, utilizing the former nursery school. Takahasi Maho explores how her childhood memories and emotions connect with others and society. For her, childhood is not merely the past, but a time yet undefined, a realm where anxiety and security, innocence and aggression, and pre-verbal sensations coexist. In her recent works, "Bedside Stories," "Children of the Future," and "Unfixed Values," she uses familiar motifs such as beds, toys, children, and plants to depict the process by which personal memories expand into social values and a sense of time. Both memories and values are seen not as fixed entities, but as constantly changing due to time, perspective, and external influences. Takahashi's paintings do not offer clear answers but provide a space to contemplate uncertainty as it is. Here, individual sensations open up to others and society, quietly questioning how values are generated, changed, and passed on.

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Solo Exhibitions

2026
  • "I Carry What Is In You" A/D Gallery (Tokyo/Japan)
  • "What Matters After Love." GALLERY CURU (Bangkok/Thailand)
2025
  • "A Piece of Our Body, And a Little Bit of Justice" Soka Art Tainan (Tainan/Taiwan)
  • "P.S." Gallery10 [TOH] (Tokyo/Japan)
  • "Dear_From" A/D Gallery (Tokyo/Japan)
  • "It's Always Shining." Hankyu Men's Osaka (Osaka/Japan)
  • "God.jpg" biscuit gallery (Tokyo/Japan)
2026
  • "NO NAME EXHIBITION" Gallery Tenchijin (Kagoshima/Japan)
  • "THE NEARBY, TINY, PRECIOUS THINGS" Arts Lane (Hayama/Japan)
  • "Parade" Kyoto Tsutaya Books (Kyoto/Japan)
  • "THINK THINK THINK" A/D Gallery (Tokyo/Japan)

Group Exhibitions

2026
  • "After the Moment" SOKA ART (Taipei/Taiwan)
  • "I am…" SOKA ART (Taipei/Taiwan)
  • "New Beginning" Four Seasons Hotel MOCA ART Space (Thailand)
  • "Departure - Still Sailing On -" Hankyu Men's Osaka (Osaka/Japan)
2025
  • "OIL ART MARKET 2025" Ginza Tsutaya Books (Tokyo/Japan)
  • "grid4" biscuit gallery (Tokyo/Japan)
  • "precision" GALLERY CURU (Thailand)
2024
  • "ART OF MIKU" Barneys New York (Tokyo, Kobe, Fukuoka/Japan)
  • "HANKYU × Art Collectors" Hankyu Umeda Main Store (Osaka/Japan)
  • "ART ART KOBE - ArtSticker Selection -" Daimaru Kobe Store (Hyogo/Japan)

Art Fair Participation

2026
  • Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
  • Art Central Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
2025
  • ART FAIR TOKYO (Tokyo/Japan)
  • FOCUS Art Fair London (London/UK)
  • ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA (Fukuoka/Japan)
2024
  • ART TAINAN (Tainan/Taiwan)
  • ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA (Fukuoka/Japan)

Awards

2021
  • Iime Fukurame in Tokyo 2021 Art Factory Award
2020
  • Independent TOKYO 2020 Special Jury Award, Masahiro Takahashi Award
2019
  • Origin of Beauty Exhibition Selection

Collaborations and Commissioned Works

  • ART OF MIKU Taipei Exhibition
  • shu uemura Annual Gift Wrapping Project
  • Good Smile Company "Hatsune Miku" Collaboration Figures and Plushies

Exhibition

Maho Takahashi Solo Exhibition

Maho Takahashi Solo Exhibition "Remain"

2026.07.24 Fri -08.02 Sun

Maho Takahashi

AND COLLECTION Contemporary Art is pleased to announce "Remain," a solo exhibition by Maho Takahashi.   Maho...