Tomokazu Matsuyama Last updated February 10, 2026 Japanese contemporary artist
Tomokazu Matsuyama
Born (1976-04-30 ) April 30, 1976 (age 49) 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.
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
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
2015
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 [ 3] 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 External links
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