Makiko Berry was born in Kameoka City, Kyoto Prefecture, in 1975. Enjoys the satoyama landscape as a child of nature.

She graduated from the Japanese-style Painting course in the Department of Formative Arts at Seian University of Art and Design from 1995 to 1998, and worked as a research student the following year. She was the Asian Art Conservation Department Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) in 1999, and held an internship with Josephine Press (California) from 2003 to 2008.

Upon her return to Japan, she changed her name from Makiko Okamoto to Makiko Berry in 2008.

Currently, she is the president of Willpower Arts Institute, Manager for the Berry Branch of the Japan Calligraphy Educational Foundation, and a Member of the Kyoto Japanese-style painters Association.