Motoko Aritake-Wild

I am from Japan and I started painting 6 years ago when I moved from Switzerland to USA. This is my second career and I dedicated my first career, in the United Nations, to the welfare of children in the world who were enslaved, trafficked, kidnapped… I was moved by the power of art to help the former child slaves to express themselves and recover from the living hell. I was also touched by faces of unknown people who dedicated their life to the well-being of these children. I am inspired to become an artist who can depict the power, energy and empathy of all these wonderful people who can influence and bring hope and happiness to others and who can create artwork with an impact on the world by communicating the beauty of empathy. 25% of the proceed from my art work goes to Save the Children charity.

I have numerous commissioned portraitures in US, Switzerland, France, Denmark, Japan, Thailand, Ireland, Australia and UK.

Art Student League of New York
New York Academy of Art
Silvermine School of Art

Member of Greenwich Art Society; Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists; Old Greenwich Art Society

Exhibitions and private collections

2018 Spectrum Miami FL
Art and Sound Gallery, Greenwich CT
Images Gallery, Old Greenwich CT
Binny Park Artist Show, Riverside CT
Bedheim Gallery, Greenwich CT
Art to the Avenue, Greenwich CT
2017 Images Gallery, Old Greenwich CT
Flinn Gallery, Greenwich CT
Metropolitan Museum of Art, copyist program
Bedheim Gallery, Greenwich CT
Art to the Avenue, Greenwich CT

2012-to-date private commissioned portraitures and figure murals in private and public collections in US, Europe and Asia.