Aya Momose (b.1988 Tokyo, Japan) lives and works in Tokyo, Japan, she is currently having her residency in New York. She graduated from the MFA program at Musashino Art University, Tokyo. Momose's works investigate one’s interrelationship between body and voice, often making use of interviews as an intervention to provoke questions regarding their personal identity.

Recent major exhibitions include “To Cuddle a Goat, a Poor Grammar Exercise” , switch point, Tokyo (2016), Roppongi Crossing 2016: "My Body, Your Voice” Mori Art Museum,Tokyo (2016), “Resounding Gong” GALLERY HASHIMOTO, Tokyo (2016), “Artist File 2015 Next Doors: Contemporary Art in Japan and Korea” The National Art Center,Tokyo (2015), “Artist File 2015: Next Doors” National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon (2015)“Handicap[tentative] ” Tomonotsu Museum, Japan (2015), “Voice Samples”, Art Gallery 1, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Kanagawa (2014), 2013 “Home Videos”, switch point, Tokyo

( from the artist’s website )