東京とニューヨークで活動し、機械や金属類、プラスティックなどの人工物をモチーフに描く画家。無機的なモチーフで有機的なイメージを創造し、人工と自然、二次元と三次元の境界はどこにあるかなどをテーマに描き続けてきた。2013年に東京藝術大学で修士号を取得。最近ではニューヨークのレジデンスプログラムに参加し、その滞在期間中に在ニューヨーク日本総領事館での展覧会の参加アーティストに選ばれるなどの経歴を持つ。

主な受賞歴は、テラダアートアウォード（東京）、岡本太郎現代芸術賞（川崎）などが挙げられ、ART CAKE（ニューヨーク）、Varda Artist in Residency（サウサリート）など、様々なレジデンスにも参加している。

Ai Makita is a Tokyo based visual artist who uses artificial objects such as machine, metallic objects and plastics as her motif. She has attempted to create organic images in her paintings by using inorganic motifs. Her main concern is to represent boundaries between artificial and natural, 2D and 3D in her work. She got an M.F.A. of Tokyo National University of the Arts in 2013, her painting was selected for a permanent collection at the Museum of Tokyo National University of the Arts. Recently, she participated in a residency program in New York, and during that period, was selected as an exhibitor at the Consulate General of Japan in New York, where her paintings were exhibited for two months.

Makita has received numerous awards, fellowships, and residency programs, including the Terrada Art Award(Tokyo), Taro Okamoto Award(Tokyo), POLA Art Foundation(Tokyo), ART CAKE (New York) and the Varda Artist in Residency(Sausalito).