Tomokazu Matsuyama (松山智一 ''Matsuyama Tomokazu, ''born April 30, 1976, in

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, Japan) is a Japanese contemporary visual artist. Matsuyama lives and works in

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, New York. Matsuyama is influenced by a variety of subjects, including Japanese art from the Edo and Meiji eras, classical Greek and Roman statuary,

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painting, postwar contemporary art, and the visual language of global, popular culture as embodied by mass-produced commodities.

Education and career

After graduating

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, Tokyo, Matsuyama moved to New York and attended

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in Brooklyn, where he received his MFA in Communications Design in 2004.

Matsuyama’s important exhibitions include the Reischauer Institute at

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, Massachusetts, the

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, Washington D.C.,

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, Sydney, the Japan Society, New York, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, among other galleries and institutions. His work can also be seen in the permanent collections of

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, Microsoft Collection, the Cosmopolitan Hotel Group (NV), the Royal Family (Dubai, UAE), and The Standard Hotel ( Andre Balazs Group), among others. In August 2014, Matsuyama was awarded the Harbour City Gallery Public Art Commission in Hong Kong. From 2012 to May 2017, Matsuyama was an adjunct professor at the

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in NYC.

Exhibitions

2021 * Summertime, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg * Nature Morte, The Hole, New York, NY * Accountable Nature, Long Museum, Chongqing, China 2020 * Accountable Nature, Long Museum, Shanghai, China 2018 * No Place Like Home, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg * Same Same, Different, Lumine Zero, Shinjuku, Japan 2017 * Oh Magic Night
HOCA Foundation
(Hong Kong Contemporary Art), Hong Kong 2015 * Somewhere Here, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg * 17 Hours,

, Sydney, Australia * Come with me, Gallery Wendi Norri, San Francisco, CA 2014 * Sky is the Limit, Harbour City, Hong Kong * Out Side Looking In, Lesley Kehoe Galleries, Melbourne, Australia 2013 * Palimpsest,

, Reischauer Institute, Cambridge, Boston * The Standard Rendezvous, Zidoun Gallery, Luxembourg 2012 * New Works, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA * The Future Is Always Bright, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA * Thousand Regards, Katzen Art Center,

, Washington DC 2011 * East Weets Mest, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY 2010 * In Case You're Lost, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 * Glancing at the Twin Peak, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY 2007 * Polarize, FIFTY24SF Gallery in San Francisco, CA * Between the Polar, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Kashiwa, Chica, Japan 2006 * Matzu-MTP Expo, Gallery SPEAK FOR, Tokyo, Japan

References

External links

Tomokazu Matsuyama
Official Website * http://www.zidoun-bossuyt.com/artist-matsuyama-tomokazu.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Matsuyama, Tomokazu 1976 births Living people Artists from Gifu Prefecture Japanese contemporary artists Japanese painters