Makiko Azakami In 1985, while a staff artist at Sony Creative Products, Makiko Azakami snipped and pasted together a paper Godzilla. This beguiling creature motivated her to create more paper objects, and in a short time, what started out as a hobby became her career. In addition to fourty-one exhibitions, thirty-five of them solo shows, her creations have been featured in many books and articles on three-dimensional art. As illustration, her work has been used on numerous bookjackets, magazine covers, fashion posters and billboards across Japan. With great humor and breathtaking dexterity Azakami turns the prosaic objects of everyday life into, as she puts it, "Paper Toys for grown-ups to enjoy". Universally appealing in subject matter, these objects are fascinating for their devotion to detail. Her first American show was held at The Illustration Gallery in New York. Her show was coverd in The New York Times, The New York Yomiuri, New York Magazine and others. "Paper Toy" is the name that she chose to call her miniature three-dimensional paper objects. Makiko Azakami lives in Tokyo. PROFILE AND PARTIAL LISTING OF SHOWS 2007 Paper Toy, Service Gallery, Osaka 2006 Paper Toy Show, Ginza Ito-ya, Tokyo Paper Toys, Galerie Centennial, Osaka Her works were featured at this gallery in 2000 & 2001 2005 All About Paper Toys, Japan Wemen's University, Tokyo Paper Toys, Space Yui,Tokyo Her works were featured at this gallery every year from 1985 to 1994, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2003 2004 Christmas Show, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyo 2003 Every Picture Tells a Story, Los Angeles, 2-Person Exhibition 2001 Made in Japan participant, Bristol City Museum, Bristol U.K. 1996 Every Picture Tells a Story, Los Angeles, 3-Person Exhibition Toraya Gallery, NYC Christmas Show, Shinjuku Isetan Department Store, Tokyo 1995 Valentine Show, Art Gallery Fairy, Tokyo Christmas Show, Shinjuku Isetan Department Store, Tokyo 1993 The 5th Annual 3-Dimensional Illustrators Award Show, USA, Bronze Award 1992 The 4th Annual 3-Dimensional Illustrators Award Show, USA, Silver Award 1991 Paper Toy Show, Styling Gallery at Shibuya Loft, Tokyo Paper Toys, The Illustration Gallery, NYC Tea Pot Exhibition participant, American Craft Museum, NYC 1985 Debut Exhibition at Space Yui,Tokyo 1981 Graduate of Japan Women's University, Architecture