Makoto Kojima

Big Beaver Road

May 24 – August 9, 2026

Groveland, Detroit

Named for the corporate parkway that runs the length of Troy, this exhibition gathers a new body of paintings of the city's industrial corridors — divided roads, landscaped setbacks, reflective office façades and retention ponds, most of them composed as if seen through a windshield. Alongside the paintings, a suite of drawings returns to the cul-de-sac: the same curved street rendered again and again, emptied of people and reduced to driveways, garage doors and arcs of pavement.

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Makoto Kojima

Model Homes

September 12 – November 1, 2026

Meridian Projects, Chicago

A room of near-identical detached houses — the same subdivision elevation painted in slow variation, charged by a basketball hoop, a parked car, a single lit window.

Group exhibition

The Suburban Sublime

February 2027

Midwest Contemporary, Chicago

Kojima shows Office Façade alongside eight artists working on the malls, parkways and subdivisions of the American edge city.

Makoto Kojima

Somerset

March 8 – April 26, 2024

Groveland, Detroit

Paintings of a single enclosed mall — escalators, tiled walkways, atriums and vacant display windows rendered as unstable architectures of memory rather than symbols of abundance.

Makoto Kojima

Cul-de-sac

October 2022 – January 2023

Halsted, Chicago

A room of drawings recording a single curved street and its circular turnaround across one hundred days.

Makoto Kojima

Parkway

June – August 2020

Groveland, Detroit

The artist's first exhibition of parking-lot paintings: expanses of striped asphalt extending past the edges of their commercial structures, painted at dusk.