Baert Gallery is pleased to announce Metabolizing Machine, Ai Makita's first solo exhibition exhibition with the gallery.

Ai Makita is a Tokyo-based painter whose work explores the border of artificial and natural, drawing inspiration from the relationships between human technology and the sublime. Makita received an MFA from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2013, as well as an MFA from Tokyo Gakugei University in 2010.

Recent exhibitions include Form and Matter, Tokyo 8min, Tokyo (2025); A Thousand Ways to Objecthood, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Taichung (2025); The Coming World 2025–2075, GYRE Omotesando, Tokyo (2025); 人工的神々 – Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God, PARCEL, Tokyo (2024); Prosthetic Gods, The Something Machine, New York (2024); and Interspecies, Mitsukoshi Contemporary, Tokyo (2024). She has participated in residencies at The Fores Project (London), ART CAKE (New York), Residency Unlimited (New York), and the Varda Artist Residency (Sausalito). Makita’s works are included in the collections of the Museum of Tokyo University of the Arts, Chiba Bank, and the Takahashi Collection.