Stacy Makishi 

Aloha! 
 

Stacy Makishi is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in 1993.

 

Like a bonsai plant, Stacy is small but old, and has been making art and infecting folks with curiosity and creativity for 40 years.

 

A cross-fertilization of live art, theatre, comedy, film and visual art, her work ranges across stage performances, large-scale participatory projects and intimate one-to-ones. It is as complex as it is accessible, humorous as it is challenging, visual as it is literate.

 

Stacy believes in art’s transformative power and strives to share her creative process with others in order to put more aloha into the world.

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Her current participatory project, Walking Each Other Home explores how we gather, how ritual can heal and transform. and how we might build communities of connection. Shapeshifting as it travels, Walking Each Other Home tours the UK and internationally in 2025 & 2026.

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Made with a strong collaborative ethos, Stacy's solos have been presented across Europe and beyond, including TATE Modern, Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, Traverse Edinburgh, BRUT:Vienna, Estonia Academy, Mladi Levi, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and La Mama New York. Her large-scale participatory works include Wellcome Collection commissions and works with Contact Young Company, Manchester.

 

As a teacher she has worked at institutions including Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, Wellesley College, Goldsmiths, Central School of Speech and Drama, and Queen Mary's, University of London.

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Awards include ICA Attached Artist Award, Artsadmin Bursary, a Millennium Fellowship Award, the Franklin Furnace Award, and the Live Art Development Agency Arthole Award. 
 

'Stacy Makishi is a master of mischief. She can draw out the creative juice from any situation in the most inspiring ways.
She rocks!'   ​Shlomo