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Tomokazu Matsuyama
Tomokazu Matsuyama
B. 1976, Tokyo, Japan.
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

Official Artist Website
www.matzu.net
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Works

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Tomokazu Matsuyama - Kirin ( ver. Black )
Kirin ( ver. Black )
by Tomokazu Matsuyama
$4,000
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
   
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Exhibition "Glancing at the Twin Peak," 2009
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Installation view "Natural Drift," 2007

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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Installation close up "Natural Drift," 2007
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"untitled," 2006 Latex on concrete, Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn
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"Fl-ye," 2006 BillBoard

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"Sacred Monsters" at Tufts University Art Gallery
Aug. 21, 2009
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Tomokazu Matsuyama "In Case You're Lost" at Frey Norris
Jan. 30, 2010
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Tomokazu Matsuyama at Joshua Liner Gallery
Mar. 25, 2009
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