Tomokazu Matsuyama

	Born in 1976, Japan, Matsuyama currently lives and works in New York City. Working in acrylic on canvas or paper, Tomokazu Matsuyama makes paintings that possess great charm and vivacity, a result of the artist's sensitivity to his cultural roots combined with a distinctive contemporary playfulness. Born in Japan and later immigrating to the United States, Matsuyama's bicultural upbringing spurred a questioning of national and individual identity, which today figures prominently in the style and subject matter of his paintings.

Born in 1976, Japan, Matsuyama currently lives and works in New York City. Working in acrylic on canvas or paper, Tomokazu Matsuyama makes paintings that possess great charm and vivacity, a result of the artist's sensitivity to his cultural roots combined with a distinctive contemporary playfulness. Born in Japan and later immigrating to the United States, Matsuyama's bicultural upbringing spurred a questioning of national and individual identity, which today figures prominently in the style and subject matter of his paintings.

Education
2004: MFA, Communications Design, Pratt Institute, NY
2000: BA , Management, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

Artist website: www.matzu.net

Works


Shining Where You 'd Be
by Tomokazu Matsuyama
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painting


Kirin Code Green
by Tomokazu Matsuyama
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painting


Kirin ( ver. Black )
by Tomokazu Matsuyama
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painting

Exhibition

Solo Exhibition

2010	"untitled," Frey Norris Gallery, San Fransisco, CA
2009	"Glancing at the Twin Peak," Josh Liner Gallery, New York, NY
2007	"Polarize," Fifty24SF Gallery, San Fransisco, CA "Between the Polar," Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
2006	"Matzu-MTP Expo," Gallery Speak For, Tokyo, Japan "Papiloot," FTC, San Fransisco, CA
2005	"Reunion," Studio K, Tokyo , Japan
2004	"Nothing In Progress," Reed Space, New York, NY "Asian Aesthetic Consumerism," Levi Strauss Gallery, Soho, New York, NY "Tomokazu Matsuayama," Hankyu Umeda Department Gallery , Osaka. Japan

Seleceted Group Exhibition

2008	"Winter Group Show," Frey Norris Gallery, San Fransisco, CA "What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?" Esso Gallery, New York, NY "Eyes and Curiosity vol.4," Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "Inaugural Exhibition," Josh Liner Gallery, 28th street New York, NY "27th WPA Art Gala," Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington D.C "Piece of Peace," Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007	"Independant Residents," Lineage Gallery, Philadelphia, PH "U Can't Touch This: The New Asian Art," curated by Eric Shiner, Zone: Chelsea Center for the Arts, New York, NY "Bunkamura Art Show/ BAS2007," Bunkamura Gallery Tokyo, Japan "Natural Drift," Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Kashiwa Chiba, Japan "Project To Surface," curated by Dreamsomuch, M128 Gallery, New York, NY
2006	Riviera Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Telus Centre, Whistler BC, Canada
2005	Supreme Trading Gallery, New York, NY
2004	Lab101 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 111 Minna Gallery, San Fransisco, CA
2003	Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY Punch Gallery, San Fransisco, CA Start Soma Gallery, San Fransisco, CA
2002	Pratt Institute, New York, NY

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