Kaname Moriya was born in 1936, Kyoto Japan. He graduated with honors in 1962 from the Kyoto University of Fine Arts. Since 1963 his work has been exhibited in numerous galleries in Japan, USA and in Europe. His work has received various honors such us the 1974 Competition Winner from the Kyoto Design, 1978 from the Tokyo Nichido Garou and to 1983 from the Chiba Fine Art Museum in Tokyo. Moriya’s work is inspired by the Japanese kimono. Moriya, is one of the most distinguished kimono designers in Japan, pushing kimono design into the realms of geometric minimalism.
Kaname Moriya lives and works today in Kyoto (Japan). He creates work to manifest understanding, the spirit under the feeling, the worlds agreement in a painting. Abstraction and Figuration unite. Its colors are strongly and tenderly at the same time. Longings, feelings of the joy and satisfaction, magic with all its nostalgia, with all its humility, these are only some associations one feels when observing how works.
“the picture surfaces created by Kaname Moriya push and pull at the same time, reveal, reveal deep layers, as if on them finger marks of a magnificent spirit would stay.” – Jeff Wright, ‘Cover magazine’ – New York