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Tomokazu Matsuyama
Japanese contemporary artist
Tomokazu Matsuyama (松山智一 Matsuyama Tomokazu, born April 30, , in Takayama, Gifu, Japan) is a Japanese-American contemporary visual artist.
Tomokazu matsuyama biography definition
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
Matsuyama’s important exhibitions include 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 Mi