Motoko Matsuda

I would like to create artworks that I hope can be felt beyond time and space.
I believe people need humor and fantasy in life,
so I tell simple stories using only a few elements—
not to be minimalist, but to leave space for imagination.
If my work brings something good to someone’s heart,
I would be happy.

Contemporary Japonism — Artist Statement

My practice is guided by Contemporary Japonism—
a way of seeing born from a quiet moment of inspiration,
gently reinterpreting Japanese sensibilities within the present time.

Through light, silence, and restrained space,
I create small places where viewers can pause
and quietly return inward.

Across different forms, my work remains rooted in this same intention:
to offer softly illuminated spaces
for calm awareness in an accelerated world.

My correct name represents 松田素子 in Kanji.

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

November 2025 Exhibition, Katsushika-Symphony Hills.
May 2025. Exhibition, Katsushika-Symphony Hills.
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, T...