Aya Motomura
It Goes On
August 29 — September 20, 2025　Oepning Friday, August 29 from 5-7 pm

Wada Garou Tokyo is pleased to present It Goes On, a solo exhibition by artist Aya Motomura.
 
This exhibition features a new body of work that combines a range of printmaking techniques, including copperplate etching, paper plate printing, and monotype. Among them, her exploration of paper plate printing—using paper itself as the printing matrix—marks a first for the artist, opening up a new horizon in her practice.
 
Motomura first presented monotype works in her solo show at our gallery last year. In this exhibition, she returns to the technique in a more experimental mode, incorporating water-based media such as watercolor and acrylic, and bringing fresh nuance to the process of drawing on and printing from aluminum plates. These are further layered with pastel and colored pencil, inviting a more intimate dialogue between the artist and the image.

Rooted in the traditional craftsmanship of copperplate etching, Motomura’s works quietly blend a sense of contemporary sensibility with a gentle touch of nostalgia. In this new series, her soft and lyrical expressions take on a renewed brightness and lightness, allowing new stories to quietly unfold on the page.
 
The exhibition title, It Goes On, was chosen by Aya Motomura herself. It carries a quiet prayer for the daily act of drawing and making, and reflects Wada Garou’s own hopes as we begin this new chapter in our relocated space, continuing our journey one step at a time.

Aya Motomura Found at Last 
​Monotype (etching ink, printed with an etching press), pastel, colored pencil on paper, 20.0×12.8cm, 2025

Aya MOTOMURA (b.1993, Tokyo)
BFA in Oil Painting, Department of Painting, Tama Art University, 2017
MFA in Printmaking, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, 2019
 
[Selected Projects]
Main Visual for Shinjuku Field Museum 2024 (organized by Shinjuku City, 2024)
Cover Illustration for Hakouma ni Notte by Miwa Nishikawa (Bungeishunju, 2024)
Serial Illustrations for “Hakouma ni Notte” by Miwa Nishikawa in Bungeishunju (March 2021 – December 2023 issues)
Title Illustration for Iroiro hete āto ni mezameru kamo by Keisuke Haneda in ARTnews JAPAN (2022)
 
Winner of the Grand Prize (Junichi Kusaka Prize) at the HB Gallery File Competition Vol.30 in 2020. In recent years, she has expanded her practice to include book covers and serial illustrations for newspapers and magazines. Her work is held in the collection of the Tama Art University Museum.

INSTAGRAM @motomura_aya_
WEBSITE https://hareru9mo.wixsite.com/ayamotomura

INFORMATION
Aya Motomura  It Goes On
August 29 - September 20, 2025​
Open 1:00 – 6:30 pm
Closed on Sundays, Mondays, and public holidays.

Ginsei Bldg. 7F, 7-12-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 1040061

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