Hisaharu Motoda1973-

Motoda depicts the buildings or landscape in their abandoned and ruined appearance through the technique of lithograph. Familiar landmarks of National Assembly or Ginza street in Tokyo, Bird's Nest or Olympic Stadium in Beijing, Opera house in Sydney or Marina Bay Sands in Singapore are presented to have been left decayed to become a part of grand nature with minute lines and shading. While keeping his view as an outsider he felt when he first moved to Tokyo from Kumamoto, the artist tries to depict the sign of rebirth of those cities with his original aesthetics.

Biography

1973 Born in Kumamoto, Japan
1999 Graduated from Kyushu Sangyo University (BFA)
2001 Graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (MFA)
2009-2010 Fellowship of Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists, The Agency of Cultural
Affairs(Australia, U.S.A)

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Solo Exhibitions

2022 Hisaharu Motoda - CARS, Tokyo
2017 Hisaharu Motoda - Towers Art Front Gallery, Tokyo
2013 Tokyo-Hisaharu Motoda Art front gallery, Tokyo
2012 Hisaharu Motoda Art Works1999-2012(Museumof Kyusyu Sangyo University / Fukuoka)
Hisaharu Motoda(KIDO Press / Tokyo)
2011 Hisaharu Motoda(C-Square, Art Gallery of Chukyo University / Nagoya)
“Neo-Ruins” (Murata & Friends / Berlin,Germany)
2010 Victorian College of the Arts, the University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia)
2009 Hisaharu Motoda (hpgrp GALLERY TOKYO / Tokyo)
Hisaharu Motoda (AIN SOPH DISPATCH / Nagoya)
2008 Hisaharu Motoda (Yoseido Gallery / Tokyo)
2007 Hisaharu Motoda (GalleryⅢ, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto / Kumamoto)

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Group Exhibitions

2017 Beyond the End: Ruins in Art History (The Shoto Museum of Art / Tokyo)
2016 International Exhibition of Contemporary Print UOG 2016 (Isla Center for the Arts/グアム)
Hiroshige’s City : From Edo to Tokyo (Honolulu Museum / Hawaii)
2015 DISTINCT IMPRESSIONS PRISM 5 LONDON (The Embassy Tea Gallery Bankside / London)
2014 What is Print?-Beyond the Border-(Ichihara Lakeside Museum / Chiba)
　　　TOKYO STATION a Hundred Years of its Legacy（Tokyo Station Gallery / Tokyo）
　　　Point of View-six Lithographer from Tokyo (Sales Art Gallery / Beograd)
2013 Contiguous Zone-Japanese contemporary Arts Exhibition (AKI Gallery / Taipei)
2012 REINVENTING TOKYO (Mead Art Museum / Amherst, MA, U.S.)
DOMANI(The National Art Center / Tokyo)
2011 IMMANENT LANDSCAPE (Oyama City Kurumaya Museum of Art / Tochigi)
JAPANCONGO: Carsten Hollers double-take on Jean Pigozzis collection (Centre National d’Art Contemporain,
Grenoble, France / Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia)
2010 Color of Printmaking : Lithography (Bumpodo Gallery / Tokyo)
IMMANENT LANDSCAPE (West Space / Melbourne, Australia)
2009 The View of Contemporary Paintings (Tokyo Station Gallery / Tokyo)
2008 VOCA 2008 (The Ueno Royal Museum / Tokyo)
SORA-WA-HARETEIRUKEDO (MUSEE Hamaguchi Yozo, Yamasa Collection / Tokyo)

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Awards

2009 The Fine Works of Associate Members Prize (FF Prize) at “The 77th Exhibition of the Japan Print Association” (Tokyo Metroporitan Art Museum / Tokyo)
2003 Special Selection Prize at “21st Century Prints Grand Prix Exhibition-11th” (Tokyo)
2002 Chief Prize at “The 34th GYOR International Symposium of Artists” (Municipal Museum / Gyor, Hungary )
Japan Print Association Prize at “The Exhibition of Japan Print Association,” (Tokyo Metroporitan Art Museum/Tokyo)
2001 First Prize at “International Print Triennial in Kanagawa 2001” (Kanagawa Prefectural hall Gallery / Kanagawa)
1999 Purchase and Audience Prize at 24th National, University Print Show (Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts / Tokyo)

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Collection / Public Art

Honolulu Museum of Art (Hawaii, U.S.)
Tokyo Station Gallery (Tokyo)
RMIT University （Melbourne, Australia）
Mead Art Museum (Amherst, MA, U.S.)
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts (Tokyo)
Fuchu Art Museum (Tokyo)
Sakima Museum (Okinawa)
Kamiyamada Culture hall (Nagano)
Municipal Museum (Gyor, Hungary)
Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto (Kumamoto)

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