New York City based artist Kazuya Morimoto was born and raised in Okayama, Japan and studied at the Art Factory Institution Of Art with Makoto Arimichi and watercolor with Marene Okamoto. Shortly after graduation, Kazuya moved to New York City to study painting, printmaking, and sculpture at the Art Students League of New York. Since 2000-2013, he has focused extensively on conceptual abstract painting. He was awarded several grants and scholarships and has had exhibitions and public art displayed in New York, Chicago and Washington DC. Spain, France and Italy.

He traveled to Europe in 2006, where he began sketching old street scenes more intensively and began using watercolor, which brought more colors in his art work. He goes back to Europe every summer for intensive sketch travel. 

Black ink drawings are his daily task since his move to New York. Recently Kazuya Morimoto has been devoting most of his time painting the streets of New York City by watercolor, especially historic neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village, the West Village, Upper West Side and more. He has been archiving old streets and shop fronts to capture the moments of local scenes before they change and lose their current quality. He attends local art events and helps to save and revitalize the uniqueness of local scenes.