Motohiro Takeda
Something to remember you by
The works of Motohiro Takeda resists the speed, spectacle, and excess of contemporary life by presenting an encounter with the by-products of material changes, destructions, renewed forms and substances. For the artist’s first solo presentation, Something To Remember You By, Takeda creates an environment where objects are created through—and viewers thus experience—a studied relationship with the passage of time, arriving at a place slowed to stillness.
Motohiro Takeda (b. 1982) uses sculpture, ceramics, and photography to explore the impermanent nature of life. He investigates the transient core of time and memory and the space between man and nature in his work and create installations to contemplate on mortality.
Takeda is a 2024 AIM fellow at the Bronx Museum. He was awarded the Tierney Fellowship in 2008. He participated in the Artist in Residency program at Baxter St. CCNY in 2011 and at Woodstock Center for Photography in 2015. His work has been exhibited in various venues, including Fredric Snitzer Gallery (Miami), island gallery (New York), Arsenal Contemporary (New York), Storage Gallery (New York), Ibasho Gallery (Antwerp, Belgium), Unseen Photo Festival in Amsterdam, Photo London, Photo España, among others.
He received his BFA in photography from Parsons School of Design | The New School in 2008 and his MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2023. He was born in Hamamatsu, Japan, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn.