SETSUKO MAHO
Setsuko Maho is a Japanese artist and printmaker based in Rotterdam. Developing her practice in the UK, Japan and the Netherlands, she builds up a combination of rich colours, brush strokes with lines and shapes of rhythm mainly using screen printing technics. Setsuko’s work is both organised and spontaneous, creating bold, playful, and vibrant abstract work that blur the line between fine art and design. She also does commissioned works such as mural painting and graphic design as a freelancer.
Her practice explores the the essence of communication through the layered as a non-verbal medium for conveying messages to society with humanity.
Sudden intuition and fleeting thought from everyday life inspires her work; these are a ‘diary of memories’.
Gallery
Print Club London
Artist In Residence
2025 Portside Graphics (Gent, Belgium)
2018 World of Co (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Exhibitions
2024
‘Mesh Print Club Group Expo’ at Brouwerij Noordt (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
‘What is a home?’ Group Exhibition at The Social Hub (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
‘Green’ Group Exhibition at Kunstgarage Franx (Zoetermeer, The Netherlands)
2022
‘CHOOSE LOVE x PRINT CLUB LONDON’ Exhibition at Royal Albert Hall (London, UK)
‘Salon de l’art Japonais 2022’ at Linda Farrell Gallery (Paris, France)
2021
‘Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021’ at Woolwich Works (London, UK)
‘CHOOSE LOVE 2021 Exhibition at Soho Revue Gallery (London, UK)
2020
‘Cinema paper & chronicle’ chapter Ⅲ at Rock Star Hotel (Osaka, Japan)
2019
‘Cinema paper & chronicle’ chapter Ⅱ at somewhere (Tokyo, Japan)
‘Cinema paper & chronicle’ chapter Ⅰ at yack yack books (Tokyo, Japan)
2018
‘ART SHOWS’ Group Exhibition at SODA (Sofia, Bulgaria)
2016
‘What Is A Print?’ Solo Exhibition at EDIT.TOKYO (London, UK)
‘Art Hub Print Open’ at Art Hub Gallery (London, UK)
‘Central St Giles Exhibition’ at Central St Giles Covent Garden (London, UK)
Prize
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021 Selected
6th NBC International Biennale Silk Screen Prize
Art Hub Print Open Selected