Tomokazu Matsuyama
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Tomokazu Matsuyama | |
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| Born | April 30, 1976 Takayama, Gifu, Japan |
| Occupation | Visual artist |
Tomokazu Matsuyama (松山智一 Matsuyama Tomokazu, born April 30, 1976, in Takayama, Gifu, Japan) is a Japanese 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,[1] 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.
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 has held major exhibitions at the Azabudai Hills Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 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 works are in the permanent collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, De Young Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Albertina, the Long Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art (Miami),Powerlong Art Museum, the Royal Family of Dubai, Dean Collection (Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys), and the institutional collections of Microsoft, Toyota Motor Corporation, 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.
