Tomokazu Matsuyama

Tomokazu Matsuyama (松山智一 Matsuyama Tomokazu, born April 30, 1976, in Takayama, Gifu, Japan) is a Japanese-American contemporary visual artist. Matsuyama lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Matsuyama is influenced by a variety of subjects, including Japanese art from the Edo and Meiji eras, classical Greek and Roman statuary, French Renaissance painting, postwar contemporary art, and the visual language of global, popular culture as embodied by mass-produced commodities.

Education and career
After graduating Sophia University, Tokyo, Matsuyama moved to New York and attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he received his MFA in Communications Design in 2004.

Matsuyama’s important exhibitions include the Reischauer Institute at Harvard University, Massachusetts, the Katzen Arts Center at American University Museum, Washington D.C., Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 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 Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 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 School of Visual Arts 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, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 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, Harvard University, 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, American University Museum, 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