Tomokazu matsuyama biography of abraham

Japanese contemporary artist

Tomokazu Matsuyama (松山智一 Matsuyama Tomokazu, born April 30, 1976, in Takayama, Gifu, Japan) is a Japanese-American 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’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 Yo