About the Artist

Tomokazu Matsuyama (born in 1976 in Gifu, Japan, now lives in Brooklyn, New York) came to the United States in 2002 after graduating from Sophia University and graduated with top honors from New York's top-ranked Pratt Institute of Art. His works are mainly paintings, but he also dabbles in sculpture and installation art. His works are a fusion of East and West, ancient and modern, figurative and abstract, reflecting Matsuyama's own experiences growing up in Japan and the United States, and the characteristics of today's fast-paced information society. He has held numerous exhibitions in galleries, museums, and university facilities around the world. Matsuyama's work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Pérez Art Museum of Miami, the Bloomberg Museum, the Long Museum, Microsoft, the K11 Art Foundation in Hong Kong, and the Royal Family of the Emirate of Dubai, among others. 2012-2017 he was a visiting professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and in 2020 he led the creation of a public art space for the East Exit Plaza of JR Shinjuku Station and produced a seven-meter-high gigantic artwork for the public art center. produced a huge sculpture that is 7 meters high. Has a studio in Brooklyn, New York.

Mother Other

2023

H196.0 × 118.0 × 104.0 cm

FRP, wood, steel, epoxy, polyurethane and acrylic

Patterns Erase When Orange Is The Sky

2023

267.0 x 371.0 cm

Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

The Fall High

2023

279.0 x 599.0 cm

Acrylic and mixed media on canvas