Tomokazu Matsuyama

Tomokazu Matsuyama was born in Japan in 1976 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his MFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute in New York.

While maintaining a dynamic and globally expansive practice that spans painting, sculpture, and large-scale public works, Matsuyama is committed to exploring the most personal and intimate dimensions of his artistic evolution.

Matsuyama’s works are held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA, USA; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA; the Long Museum, Shanghai, China; Powerlong Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Pt. Leo Estate Sculpture Park, Melbourne, Australia; the Royal Family of Dubai; the Dean Collection (Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys), USA; and the institutional collections of Microsoft, Toyota Motor Corporation, Bank of Sharjah, NIKE Japan, and Levi Strauss & Co. Japan.