Current Exhibition
Roppongi | Projects
"Untitled" 2026, Oil on canvas 130.3 x 194.0cm
GALLERY MoMo Projects is pleased to present Ayako Okuda, the artist’s first solo exhibition in four years, from Saturday, October 3 to Saturday, November 7, 2026.
Okuda has long depicted landscapes from places she has visited, particularly vast expanses of sea and mountains, together with human figures rendered through her distinctive treatment of light and shadow. The figures within these natural settings are depicted minimally against the grandeur of the landscape, yet become seamlessly integrated with their surroundings, quietly evoking the ways in which human life and existence unfold in relation to nature. Her paintings can be understood as spaces of “remembered scenery”—landscapes filtered not only through the actual scenes captured by the artist’s eye, but also through an internal and psychological process of recollection.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Okuda has turned her gaze increasingly toward the familiar and immediate aspects of everyday life. By depicting the seemingly ordinary world unfolding at her feet, she has sought to engage with the world around us and the subtle nuances embedded within it. Her characteristic treatment of warm light filtering through trees and gentle reflections shimmering across the surface of water remains, while through scenes drawn from the everyday landscapes we all recognize, she brings viewers a renewed sense of freshness and clarity.
For this exhibition, Okuda presents her latest works, carefully capturing and giving form to beautiful moments discovered in everyday life, as well as landscapes preserved in distant memories. As the artist herself says, “There are so many landscapes I want to paint, both in my everyday life and in my distant memories.”
We invite you to encounter these irreplaceable scenes that quietly reside within the everyday and in nature—moments that we may ordinarily pass by without noticing, yet which hold their own quiet beauty and significance.
Artist Comment
Daily Records
I sometimes look back through photographs and paint a scene I remember finding beautiful—the sunlight filtering through the trees in a park where I went for a walk the other day, for example. At other times, I remember the beautiful ridgeline of a mountain I visited many years ago, and paint that instead.
I have continued this process of gathering beautiful things from here and there and giving them a lasting form.
There are so many landscapes I want to paint, both in my everyday life and in my distant memories. I think it is a fortunate thing to have so many such landscapes to paint.
Ayako Okuda, 2026
Ayako Okuda
1980 Born in Osaka
2003 B.A., Department of Art and Science, Osaka Kyoiku University
2005 M.A., Art Education, Osaka Kyoiku University
[Solo exhibitions]
2025 GAMOYON gallery, Osaka
2022 GALLERY MoMo Projects, Tokyo
2021 Koichi Fine Arts, Osaka
GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo
2020 Muu Higashi Shinsaibashi gallery, Osaka
2019 GAMOYON gallery, Osaka
2017 Galerie Tzigane, Osaka
GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo
2016 2kw Gallery, Osaka
2015 2kw Gallery, Osaka
2014 2kw Gallery, Osaka
2013 2kw Gallery, Osaka
2012 2kw Gallery, Osaka
2011 GALLERY MoMo Roppongi, Tokyo
2010 2kw Gallery, Osaka
2008 Gallery Den 58, Osaka
GALLERY MoMo Roppongi, Tokyo
2007 GALLERY wks., Osaka
Gallery Den, Osaka
2006 Gallery Den, Osaka
2005 STREET GALLERY, Hyogo
2004 GALLERY wks., Osaka
[Group exhibitions]
2026 "Kumonosu 8th Anniversary Event: Nattsui Matsuri" Kumonosu, Osaka
2023 "Landscape" GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo
2022 "The Future of Painting 2022" SOMPO MUSEUM OF ART, Tokyo
"MITSUKOSHI Art Weeks" Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, Tokyo
2020 "Oil on the Edg" Koichi Fine Arts, Osaka
2019 "FACE 2019 “ONDO” Yuko Ebi, Ayako Okuda,Yukiko Nakamichi" 2kw Gallery, Osaka
2018 "SPRING COLLECTION" Abeno harkas gallery, Osaka
2017 " Open for the Future Exhibition" Gallery Kiku, Osaka
"Big Sensation" Gallery Den mym, Kyoto
"Alternative Selection 1 – Ayako Okuda, Koji Okuda, Nobuko Sugio-」Koichi Fine Arts, Osaka
"WONDERS vol.3 In & Out" MINA-TO SPIRAL1F, Tokyo
2016 "Lead Future Exhibition" Gallery Kiku, Osaka
2015 "Lead Future Exhibition" Gallery Kiku, Osaka
"Encounter" GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo
2014 "Lead Future Exhibition Part2" Gallery Kiku, Osaka
"Amagasaki Art Festival" Amagasaki Cultural Center, Hyogo
2013 "Individual Creation" GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo
"2kw Electric Power Substation Plan for a Future Painting" 2kw Gallery, Osaka
"Lead Future Exhibition Part1" Gallery Kiku, Osaka
"Harmony, Peace Exhibition" Koichi Fine Arts, Osaka
2012 "Shell Art Award 2012" The National Art Center, Tokyo
2011 "Imaginary forest" KOUICHI FINE ARTS, Osaka
"Regenerate" GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo
"Ayako Okuda, Kensho Hamaji, Hisayo Fukuyoshi"Gallery Kiku, Osaka
2010 "winter session of 4 artists -spring is here?" SEIBU Shibuya Alternative space, Tokyo
2009 "Art Court Frontier 2009" ARTCOURTGallery, Osaka
"Summer Group Show Hop Step Jump" GALLERY MoMo Roppongi, Tokyo
2008 "WONDER SEEDS 2008" WONDER SITE SIbuya, Tokyo
"VISUAL SENSATION VOL.3" Gallery Den 58, Tokyo
"Opening Exhibition" GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo
2006 "WONDER SEEDS 2006" WONDER SITE SIbuya, Tokyo
"Ayako Okuda, Chikako Hayakawa Exhibition" GALLERY MoMo, Tokyo
"Shell Art Award 2006" Kyoto Municipal Museum Of Art, Kyoto
2005 "Yumehiroba Haruhi Picture Biennale" Haruhi Museum of Art, Aichi
"P & E exhibition" ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2003 "Kyoten" Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
"Morikazu Kumagai grand prix exhibition" Art peer Fuchi literary arts plaza, Gifu
2001 "Group exhibition" SUMISO, Osaka
2002 "Jiro Yoshiwara Art contest" Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
[Other]
2006 The 20 th HOLBEIN Scholaship
[Public Collection]
KIYOSU CITY HARUHI ART MUSEUM
Osaka Psychiatric Medical Center
Angel Court Hospital
Mizuho Bank, New York