Makiko Kudo

Makiko Kudo (Born in 1978) is a Japanese painter. When Kudo was young, most paintings showed real life things. She paints fiction. People did not like that. Kudo’s way of painting was seen as political resistance. She grew up with stiff social structures and a failing economy. 
Her paintings always have a child in them. The child shows her generation’s worry about adulthood. 
In 2007, she had a display of her art at Tomio Koyama Gallery in Kiyosumi, Japan. She had another display at Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan in 2022. 
She painted a picture for the Metropolitan Opera of New York. The opera started an art gallery. Her painting was in the first exhibit. She painted Princess Yue-yang from "The New Emperor".