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Described as a ‘hyperkinetic tableau with a dream-like mood’, Tomokazu Matsuyama’s work is accessible: An energetic, techno-coloured narrative, that while engagingly figurative, presents an ethereal manifestation of contemporary urbanized culture. Cultivating the creative freedom of the outsider in Japan and America, he announces his arrival as an accessible and therefore powerful interpretive filter of cultural elements and visual themes.

Matsuyama works from Brooklyn, comfortable in the multi-cultural freedom of New York yet acknowledging the evolving significance of Japanese culture on his work. His artistic passion is driven by identity crisis and a desire to comprehend the mélange of bi-cultural experiences that constitute his biography. From the position of outsider, he requisitions images – traditional and contemporary – with an enviable freedom that creates an individual dialogue and artistic tropes addressing the fragmentation of contemporary experience.

He aims to communicate with universally recognizable symbols and techniques, visual and non-visual, multi-layered and metaphorical, to invite subjective interpretations:

‘I’m trying to gather together as many highly specific, local visual dialects as possible, to foster an international visual dialogue. This iconography contains elements of East and West, contemporary and historical, ornamental and conceptual. By integrating all of this cohesively I can create internal collisions, elements fighting against one another. This reflects the chaotic situation of our time. It would be nice, a kind of bonus, if my works could question viewers about their own identities…’

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YOU NEED TO COME CLOSER 2014 acrylic on canvas 254 x 305 cm 7

ME, WE, GO, OH... 2014 Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 76 x 91 cm 24

WHAT’S THERE FOR REAL 2014 Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 107 x 107 cm 11

WHATEVER THE PLAYBOY WROTE, IT WAS AS GOOD AS THE GREAT WAVES 2014 Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 161 x 254 cm 15

HURRY NO WORRIES 2014 Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 76 x 76 cm22

MOTHERSHIP 2012, 2014 Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 184 x 159 cm (Right) 104 x 91 cm (Left) 1616

KIRIN #CODE GREEN 2011 Acrylic on Canvas 86 x 86 x 8 cm 20

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EDUCATION

2004 Graduated MFA, Communications Design, Pratt Institute, NY

2000 Graduated BA, Management, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

SOLO EXHIBITION

2014 “Sky is the Limit”, Harbour City, Hong Kong

“Outside Looking In”, Lesley Kehoe Galleries, Melbourne, Australia

2013 Untitled, Galerie Zidoun, Luxembourg, EU

“Palimpsest” Reishauer Institute, Harvard University, MA

2012 “New Works”, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“The Future Is Always Bright”, Gallery Wendi Norris,San Fransisco, CA

“Thousand Regards” Katzen Art Center - American University Museum , Washington DC

2011 “East Weets Mest” at Joshua Liner Gallery in New York, NY

2010 “In Case Your Lost”, Frey Norris Gallery, San Fransisco, CA

2009 “Glancing at the Twin Peak”, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY

2007 “Found Modern Library”, Fifty24SF Gallery, San Fransisco, CA

“Between The Polar” Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Chiba, Japan

2006 “Matzu-MTP Expo”, Gallery Speak For, Tokyo, Japan

“Papiloot”, FTC, San Fransisco, CA

2005 “Re-Union”, Studio K, Tokyo , Japan

2004 “Asian Aesthetic Consumerism” SoHo, New York, NY “ Nothing In Progress” Reed Space,

New York, NY

“Tomokazu Matsuyama”, Hankyu Department Gallery , Osaka. Japan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

2013 “Edo-Pop, The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints” co-curated with Minneapolis Institute of Arts

( MIA ), Japan Society, New York, NY

2012 “Re:define” at Goss Foundation, Dallas, Texas

“Summer Group Show” at Joshua Liner Gallery New York, NY

“Untitled, No.1” at Randall Scott Projects, Washington D.C 2011 untitled, Museum of Tibet House,

New York, NY

“Joy Ride”, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY

“We Are All One” at New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY

“Changing the World Through Art 2”, Haunch of Venison Gallery, New York, NY

“The Open Day Book Exhibition” , LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA

2010 “Sugi-Pop! - The Influence of Anime and Manga on Contemporary Art” Portmouth Musuem of

Art, New Hampshire

“DRAW” Museo De La Cludad De Mexico

“Changing the World Through Art” at Haunch of Venison Gallery, New York

“Summer Group Exhibition”, Frey Norris Gallery, San Fransisco

2009 “Lost in Mutation : The Surreal in Contemporary Japanese Art”, Tufts University, Aidekman Arts

Centre, Boston, MA

2008 “Winter Group Show”, Frey Norris Gallery, San Fransisco, CA

“What’s so Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding?” at Esso Gallery in New York, NY

“Eyes and Curiosity vol. 4”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

“Night Watch”, TSCA, Chiba, Japan

“Locked and Loaded”, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY

“27th WPA Art Gala” , Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington, DC

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“Piece of Peace”, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2007 “U Can’t Touch This”, curated by Eric Shiner, Zone: Chelsea Center for the Art, New York, NY

“Bunkamura Art Show”, Bunkamura GalleryTokyo, Japan

“Project To Surface”, curated by Dream So Much m127, New York, NY

“Independent Residents”, Lineage Gallery, Philadelphia, PH

“Natural Drift”, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Kashiwa Chiba, Japan 2006 “ In-You”, Riviera

Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

“Brave-Art”, Telus Centre, Whistler BC, Canada 2005 “ Shift “, Supreme Trading Gallery, New

York, NY 2004 “ Street Wise”, Lab101 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

“Frost Bite”, 111 Minna Gallery, San Fransisco, CA

2003 “Dream So Much 2”, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY

Untitled, Punch Gallery, San Fransisco, CA

Untitled, Start Soma Gallery, San Fransisco, CA 2002 Untitled, Pratt Institute, New York, NY

ART FAIRS

2014 Melbourne Art Fair, Art Basel Miami (forthcoming)

2013 Art Dubai, Dubai,

Sydney Contemporary, Sydney

2012 Pulse, Miami

2011 Art Dubai, Dubai Pulse, Los Angeles Pulse, Miami

2010 Art HK/ Hong Kong international Artfair Art Miami

2009 Art Dubai

Art HK/ Hong Kong international Artfair

2008 SCOPE Miami

YAF fair, (Yokohama Home and Art Collection), Japan

2007 Pulse Miami

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• “Tomokazu Matsuyama: Thousand Regards” artist monograph, Panorama Publishing, Tokyo, written by Yayo

Shionoiri, 2013

• Magana Lainya, “Tomokazu Matsuyama.” Hi Fructose Magazine-New Contemporary Art, Volume 24, 2012 USA

• Jenkina, Mark. “Contemporary Edge, Historic Inspiration” The Washington Post, Cover, Gallery section, July 13,

2012, USA

• Frank, Peter, “Exhibition Review” Huffington Post, Haiku Reviews, June 1, 2012, USA

• Harvey, Anthony. “At the Museum” The In Towner, April 2012, Arts Section, USA

• “Tomokazu Matsuyama” A+A Magazine, Issue No.18, 2011 48-49, Spain

• “Tokyo Triangle ” Bootcamp Magazine, Volume 7, 2011, Japan

• “Interview-Tomokazu Matsuyama, East Meets West ” Elephant Magazine, UK, Autumn (2010): 70-78

• Marx, David, “Dual Citizen, Tomokazu Matsuyama.” Made Of Japan- 60 year celebration publication from

Onitsuka Tiger, UK, (2010)

• “Further”, 7 artists catalogue, Gingko Press, 2010 USA, 156-203

• “Tomokazu Matsuyama, Interview” Gopher Magazine, 2010 USA, 48-52

• “Interview with Tomokazu Matsuyama.” Lowdown Magazine 70 (2010): 152-156

• “Value” LDWN Magaine, Berlin, issue 02 (2010)

• Takeda, Natane. “Tomokazu Matsuyama, In Case You’re Lost.” Exhibition Review M Magazine, April (2010): 26-31

• “In Case You’re Lost, Tomokazu Matsuyama” artist monograph, Japan, Bunka- Printing and Publishing, March

2010

• Hammer, Mike. “The Art Scene” Boston Herald Online, Feb 2, 2010, Arts Section,

• “Tomokazu Matsuyama” artist monograph, Panorama, Tokyo, written by Eric Shiner Alexandra Chang, and Kenji

Kubota, Sep 2009

• “Colaborator: Tomokazu Matsuyama.” Antenna magazine: cover/cover story, Spring 2009 Issue , USA , March

2009

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• “Introspective Mélange: Tomokazu Matsuyama.” Newwork Magazine 02 (2008): 3rd story

• Pricco, Evan. “The Importance of Synergy in the Work of Matsuyama.” Juxtapoz Magazine 83 (2007): 68-79

• Hohle, Maggie Kinser. “Drawings from Life’s History.” Theme Magazine 8 (2007): 34-43

• “Interview with Tomokazu Matsuyama.” +81 Magazine 77 (2007): 50-57

• “Showstoppers: Matzu-MTP.” Juxtapoz Magazine 77 (2007): 56-57

• “Showstoppers: Want2BSquare.” Juxtapoz Magazine 77 (2007): 60-61

• Matsuyama, Tomokazu. Tomokazu Matsuyama: Found Modern Library. written by Alexandra Chang. San

Francisco: FIFTY24SF Gallery Books, 2007

• “Exhibition Review.” Weekly Pia 3.8, March (2007)

• “Installation Review: Higher-Planes.” Surface Magazine 65 (2006)

• “Interview” Warp Magazine May, (2006)

• “Interview: Tomokazu Matsuyama.” Jumbo Hibari Magazine 002

• “Between the Two Lines.” Lodown Magazine 50 (2006)

• “Exhibition Review.” Art Prostitute Magazine 6 (2006)

• “Quest in NYC.” Quest Magazine 27 (2005)

• Cravens, Angela. “Street Dreamer.” Trace Magazine (2005)

• Plumb, Christopher. “Matzu-MTP.” Royal Magazine 6, Fall (2005)

• “Second Skin.” Theme Magazine 3 (2005)

• “Exhibition Review.” Boon Magazine (2005)

• “Exhibition Review.” Hong Kong: City Magazine Spring (2005)

• “Exhibition Review.” Relax Magazine January (2005)

• “3rd Anniversary Project.” Dazed and Confused Magazine 37, (2005)

• Chang, Alexandra. “Infinite Design Ideas.” AM New York, June 21, 2004, Arts Section, New York edition

• “Interview.” +81 Magazine 24 (2004)

• Chang, Alexandra and Richard Chang. Dream So Much 2 Artists Books. New York: Asain American Arts Centre,

2003

• Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review; ‘Dream So Much 2’.” The New York Times December 26, 2003, Arts section, New

York edition

• “Exhibition Review: Dreamsomuch 2 at Asian American Arts Center.” Shingtao Daily News November 23, 2003,

• Arts Section, United States edition

• “Exhibition Review.” Art Asia Pacific Magazine 38 (2003)

• “Persons.” OCS News 29 (2 Lectures April 2013 - Artist Presentation, Harvard University)

• April 2012 - Artist Presentation, Katzen Arts Center, Museum for America University, Washington DC

• March 2011 - Artist Presentation, Asia Society and Musuem, New York, NY

• November 2007 - APMT, BankART, Yokohama, Japan

• December 2003 - Asian America Arts Centre in New York, NY

COLLECTIONS

• Microsoft Collection

• The Royal Family, The Prince of Dubai United Arab Emirates

• The Royal Family, The Queen of Dubai United Arab Emirates

• The Standard Hotel, Andre Balazs Group, New York

• “Artist in residence” commissioned art project with LesportSac baggage company

• “NSW x Tomokazu Matsuyama” commissioned art project with Nikes hi-end line NSW

• Levi’s Strauss and Co, Collection

• “NY Artist Series” commissioned art project with Levi’s Strauss & Co. Japan

• “CO-Lab” commissioned art project with Nike Asia , Hong Kong

• Commissioned art project at Jz Brat, Celulian Tower Hotel Group, Tokyo

• Corporate purchase, Levi’s Strauss and Co, Japan

• Corporate purchase, Scion / Toyota Automobile, USA

• Nike, LeBron James commission

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Author: Lesley Kehoe

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LESLEY KEHOE GALLERIESGround Floor 101 Collins St

Melbourne Victoria

Australia

+61 3 9671 4311

gallery@kehoe.com.au

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