Motoko Matsuda

I'm not thinking about becoming a minimalist, I'm thinking about how to tell a story in a limited elements.
I often inspired by the things around us, nature and music. In creating of forms, the nature told me a lot of things. And in color, I am particular about black and white as colors, and another colors are appearing, too.
I think each human life is not easy, so if viewers can be played in a different world, then I am happy. For me, creation is a place to live.

Kyo-Yuzen is one of the traditional and artistic Japanese dyeing methods. I was born and raised in the Kyo-yuzen family in Kyoto, Japan. Also my relatives were nearby, and many of them worked for Kyo-yuzen. I thought that "human beings draw pictures" in my child hood.
There are many traditional and modern museums near my home and visited there well. Also I love children's picture books, Western animations and dramas on TV, and Manga, too. So many cultural feelings penetrated me, and I would like to fuse them to create artworks naturally.

My career is started as a textile designer for Paris and NY haute couture in the textile design company and next entered a German textile designer's studio as the same occupation.
After that as a freelance, I set up own studio in A...

Associate degree at Saga Art College that is group of Saga Art University in Kyoto, BFA at Keio University in Tokyo.

May, 2024. Exhibition will be held in Katsushika-Symphony hills, Katsushika-ward, Tokyo.
May, 2023 - May, 2024. 1 year exhibiting. A part of my work is shown in Mirai Park, in front of Tokyo University of Science, Katsushika-ward, Tokyo.
Oct. - Nov. 2023. Exhibiting small works for Katsushika-ward Artists Association at Katsushika Symphony Hills Gallery, Tokyo.
May, 2023. Exhibiting at a public space in Katsushika-ward, Tokyo
May, 2023. Katsushika Symphony Hills, Tokyo, Selected Show
2022 Kastushika Symphony Hills, Tokyo, Selected Show
2019 Foreign Correspondent's Club of Japan, Tokyo, Select Show
One Man Show
2017/1/10-2/28 Permanent exhibition at Gallery Galatea, Moriya, Ibaraki, Japan
2015/11/19-23 One man show at Gallery Galatea
2011/12 One man show at ISHIDA OMOTESANDO,Tokyo, Japan
2016/1/10-2/28 Permanent exhibition at Gallery Galatea,
2007/1/4-22 One man show at Gallery Galatea,
2000/11 One man show at Come-sta, Tokyo
1999&1998 One man show at Gallery Galatea.
1998/9-12 One man show at the exhibition space of the cafe in Taro Okamoto Memorial museum, Aoyama, Tokyo
1998/7 One man show at Esthe Gallery, Aoyama, Tokyo
1990/7/19-8/21 One man show at Roppongi WAVE Step Gallery,
1988/5 One Man Show at Dim-Sum Ginza, To...