In Maha Harada’s work, you’ll meet: Vincent van Gogh; Theodorus van Gogh; Henri Rousseau; Paul Gauguin; Picasso; Dora Maar; Oscar Wilde; Bernard Leach; Amelia Earhart; Albert Einstein; the crew of the Nippon, the Japanese plane that circled the world in 1939; Japan’s first woman prime minister; everyday people of the 2020s- and of the 1930s; Alfred Barr; the chief curator of MoMA- and its night guard; the painters who created a paradise in Okinawa at the end of the Second World War; the museum staff of the Fukushima Museum of Art in the wake of the 2011 Great Japan Earthquake… and someone like you.

Based between Tokyo, Paris, Kyoto, and Tateshina, Maha Harada is a creative visionary and exceptional storyteller who has produced world-class, category-defying writing.

Harada is one of the founding curators of Tokyo’s acclaimed Mori Art Museum; when it was established, she was sent to represent the Museum as a project researcher at its principal cultural partner, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. It is for this reason that Maha Harada is renowned as Japan’s leading creator of art novels and art entertainment.

She is among Japan’s most talked-about writers and creatives, and her extraordinary experiences give her an unparalleled ability to blend art and literature. Harada's art novels journey into the past to breathe fresh life into some of the world’s most beloved artists, who still enchant countless people today. These stories transcend time and generation crossing the boundaries of nation and region. At the same time, they are rooted in the experiences of a woman born and raised in Japan.