Makiko Hara (curator)

Hara worked as an independent curator based in Tokyo and Montreal throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.[1] During that time she was a co-founder of the collective Tokyo Art Speak,[2][3] a collective that focused on art discourse. Since the late 90s Hara has curated numerous notable contemporary art exhibitions and projects throughout the Asia Pacific Rim.[4] She moved to Vancouver in 2007 when she was appointed the Chief Curator of Centre A, International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.[5] She was Chief Curator at Centre A until 2013 during which time she curated exhibitions with major contemporary artists from Vancouver and across the world, including: Kyohei Sakaguchi,[6] Shen Yuan,[7] Cathy Busby and Garry Neill Kennedy, and Lani Maestro.[8][9] In 2009 she was a guest curator at Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche, (Toronto, Canada),[10][11] where she curated Zone C, in Liberty Village, on the theme of Urban Disaster/Catastrophe/Survival Actions, which included works by Tom Dean; Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries; Skeena Reece; Babak Golkar; Oswaldo Maciá; Brandon Vickerd; Jerome McGrath and Rina Grosman; Jason de Haan and Scott Rogers; Randy and Berenicci, and Kuo I-Chen.

In 2016, Hara was a contributing curator to MASH UP: The Birth of Modern Culture at the Vancouver Art Gallery, presenting a project by Japanese artist UJINO.[4] IN 2018 she curatored Rock Paper Scissors, a project by Cindy Mochizuki, at Yonago City Museum, which later toured to Vancouver at the Nikkei Museum.[12][13]