MoRiZA is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, digital animation, photography, and design. Now based in New York, Riza’s practice is defined by his ability to fuse traditional design with emerging technology—bridging cultures, disciplines, and eras in a visual language that feels both ancient and futuristic.

Riza arrived in New York from Indonesia in 1984 to study at Monmouth University in New Jersey, commuting often into the city during one of its most electric creative periods. Downtown was alive with graffiti, street art, underground clubs, and the early hip-hop movement. Artists such as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat had just redefined subways, walls, and clubs as public canvases. Immersed in that energy, Riza absorbed the collision of culture, rhythm, and form. Every idea began as a drawing—a space where movement met imagination and instinct guided line. Those sketches became the seed of a lifelong practice balancing precision and play, design logic and emotional spontaneity.

At the same time, he began painting intuitively, translating energy and emotion into gestural abstractions while experimenting with early digital tools, animation, and 3D modeling. Many of his compositions still echo the mythic stories and symbols he heard growing up in Indonesia, where folklore and ritual gave form to imagination. For Riza, the studio remains a kind of laboratory and meditation space—a place where paint can move like pixels, and pixels can breathe like paint.

Photography added another dimension to his vision. For over a decade, he has documented the rhythm of urban life—the gestures, architecture, and fleeting moments that define the modern city. At times, these images evolve into sculptural or digital works, merging stillness and motion, analog and algorithm. His lens, like his brush, follows instinct, curiosity, and a fascination with how people move through space.

Under his street-art persona Modomatic, Riza extends his work into the public realm. Bold, fast, and alive with color, Modomatic pieces retain the precision of studio practice while embracing the raw immediacy of graffiti. During the pandemic, he installed his work directly on the streets of New York, combining ink drawing, painting, and 3D-printed relief to keep art visible and accessible when galleries were closed. These works exist between spontaneity and structure, between fine art and street culture, reflecting his commitment to openness and connection.

Riza’s multidisciplinary practice reflects an artist equally at ease in the tactile and the virtual, the solitary and the social. His digital sculptures pulse with light and rhythm, evoking organic forms that seem alive. His paintings carry the urgency of urban life; his animations reveal worlds in motion. Across all mediums, he seeks to connect opposites—hand and machine, body and code, chaos and harmony—continuing his search for balance in a world constantly shifting.

Throughout his career, Riza has remained devoted to process, experimentation, and the poetry of transformation. His art speaks to a world in flux, where technology reshapes perception and creativity bridges cultures, histories, and identities. To him, creation is both discovery and meditation—a dialogue between what moves and what endures.

Today, Mo Riza continues to develop new bodies of work in painting, digital sculpture, and motion design. His practice remains guided by curiosity, discipline, and the desire to bring together all that moves, breathes, and connects—across mediums, across cultures, across time.

Contact: moriza@gmail.com