The Eye






The Eye
Masako Kamiya
Gouache on wood panel
8” H x 8” W
2024



Masako Kamiya's acrylic gouache paintings are constructed of thousands of tiny nodules of paint, one built upon another, creating fields of color that shift and move, generating patterns and illusions.

Kamiya is a recent recipient of the Blanche Award (2018). Other grants she received were the Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship and the A.R.T Fund (2017), the Lillian Orlowsky & William Freed Foundation Grant (2016), the Brother Thomas Fellowship (2015), and Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Painting (2006 & 2010). She has also participated in international residencies including La Porte Peinte (2017), The Custom House Studio (2016), Cill Rialaig Project (2015), and Burren College of Art (2013). Kamiya’s work has been represented at Gallery NAGA in Boston since 2002. She has a BFA from Montserrat College of Art and an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art. She has been an instructor in the Painting and Drawing Program at Montserrat College of Art since 1999.



Instagram: @mka1973Website: masakokamiya.com
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