MOTOKO KAMADA

This body of work is an investigation of my personal history through the lens of a camera my father used to record our family growing up in my native Japan. Other photographic sources for these paintings come from my brother's more recent documentation of his young family.

I have used these photo sources as a spring board to create paintings on canvas that transcend the particular time and place of their origin to speak in a more universal voice creating images that are at once intimate yet anonymous. Using the expressive language of invented color and interpretive form derived from these fading artifacts, I intend to spur the empathetic imagination and individual consciousness of the viewer.

Born in Japan, living and working in Los Angeles, CA.

Education:

2003-04 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bachelor of Fine Art, Painting

2000-02 San Francisco Art Institute, studied painting and printmaking

2000 Fall The School o the Art Institute of Chicago

1997-99 Los Angeles City College, general education and studio arts

Exhibitions:

2013, 10-11. Awagami Internationl Mini-print Exhibition, Tokushima, Japan

2013, 3 Where East Meets West Art Show, dA Center for the Arts in Pomona, CA

2013, 1 Shikishi Art Exhibition "hatsu mato", Japanese American Cultural And Community Center

2012, 10 Terrestrial Life, juried show, Gallery 825/Los Angeles Art Association

2012, 7 Small Works, Juried show, Barnsdall Art Center, Los Angeles, CA

2012, 6 Out There, juried show, Gallery 825/Los Angeles Art Association

2010, 9 Tarfest, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

2007, 12 Open Show, juried show, Gallery 825/ Los Angeles Art Association

2007 10, Tarfest, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

Silent Auction, Venice Art Walk & Auction, Venice, CA

Get Naked, group show, The Gallery Waugh, 704 S. Spring St. #1202 Los Angeles, CA 90014

Group Show, Regent Gallery, downtown Los Angeles

2004, 6 The Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL

2004, 4 BFA Show of the School of the Art Insitute of Chicago

Honors:

2004, 8 George & Barbara Pratt Benefactor Award, Rhinelander, WI

2004, 5 BFA Fellowship prize, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago