Tomokazu Matsuyama

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, 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 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.

Exhibitions 2026

This is America: Selections from PAMM's Collection, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida Soft Reins: From Degas to Fordjour, Acquavella Galleries, Palm Beach, USA Life Imitates Art, Anthony Gallery, Chicago, USA

2025

SIMOSE New Collection Exhibition Part 1— Tomokazu Matsuyama, Sam Falls, Simose Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan Liberation Back Home, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA Tomokazu Matsuyama: Morning Sun, Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyak, USA Tomokazu Matsuyama: FIRST LAST, Azabudai Hills Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Frieze Los Angeles - Official Solo Booth, Almine Rech Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2024

Mythologiques, 60th Venice Biennele, Hosted by the Contemporary Istanbul Foundatio, Arsenale, Venice, Italy

2023

MATSUYAMA Tomokazu: Fictional Landscape, Shanghai Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China MATSUYAMA Tomokazu: Fictional Landscape, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Hirosaki, Japan Episodes Far From Home, Almine Rech Gallery, London, UK

2022

Harmless Charm, Sotheby’s, Hong Kong The Best Part About Us, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA

2021

Boom Bye Bye Pain, KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan 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, (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