Tomokazu Matsuyama

Tomokazu Matsuyama has received the Pen Creator Award 2025. This award honors creators across all genres for their achievements, and this year five individuals and groups, including Matsuyama, were selected.  As a singular artist who continuously reimagines the world through the lens of identity, Matsuyama held his first large-scale solo exhibition in Tokyo, ’FIRST LAST’. In parallel with

Tomokazu Matsuyama will participate in ‘Artist Talk: Tomokazu Matsuyama with Sharon Matt Atkins’ at Liu Shiming Art Foundation（USA） on November 20, 2025. As Deputy Director for Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Sharon Matt Atkins is a distinguished curator who has organized major exhibitions including ‘JR: Chronicles’（2019）, ‘Swoon: Submerged Motherlands’（2015）, and ‘Ai Weiwei: According to What?’（2014）.

Tomokazu Matsuyama participates in ‘SIMOSE New Collection Exhibition PartⅠ– Sam Falls, Tomokazu Matsuyama’ at Shimose Art Museum from October 7 – December 14, 2025. Simose Art Museum has newly acquired works by Tomokazu Matsuyama this year. This exhibition introduces part of his global practice, highlighting two newly acquired paintings alongside Soul Miner, 2025, a large-scale

Tomokazu Matsuyama’s @tomokazumatsuyama  solo exhibition ‘Liberation Back Home’ will be held at SCAD Museum of Art @scadmoa from August 1 – January 4, 2026. Displaying works both within and on the façade of the SCAD Museum of Art, Tomokazu Matsuyama presents large-scale paintings and sculpture that blur distinctions between interiority and exteriority, Eastern and Western,

KOTARO NUKAGA is pleased to announce our participation in ‘Tokyo Gendai 2025’, an international art fair held in PACIFICO Yokohama, Japan from September 12 to 14. KOTARO NUKAGA will showcase works by twelve internationally diverse artists, including Tomokazu Matsuyama and Rember Yahuarcani. Featuring a dynamic range of practices across painting and glass art. And also

The artworks of Tomokazu Matsuyama, Tomona Matsukawa and Keita Morimoto will be shown in ‘ARTS MAEBASHI RECENT ACQUISITIONS／Collection + Women Artists, Each Her Own World‘ at Arts Maebashi starting from July 19 – August 26, 2025. 【EXHIBITED WORKS】 Tomokazu Matsuyama, Turn Up Remember Tomona Matsukawa, It’s good once in a while Keita Morimoto, Unspoken Sentiments

This exhibition of paintings and works on paper by the contemporary Japanese American artist Tomokazu Matsuyama centers around his new and very recently finished large-scale painting Morning Sun Dance. Inspired by Edward Hopper’s iconic 1952 painting Morning Sun in the collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, it delves into the complexities of solitude and life in a globalized,

KOTARO NUKAGA is pleased to announce our participation in ART BUSAN 2025, an international art fair held in BEXCO, Busan, South Korea from May 9 to 11. KOTARO NUKAGA will present works by 7 artists: Mariko Kobayashi, Maiko Kasai, Takehito Koganezawa, Takehiro Iikawa, Tomona Matsukawa, New York based artist Tomokazu Matsuyama, and Rember Yahuarcani, an

KOTARO NUKAGA is pleased to announce its participation in Art Basel Hong Kong 2025. We are presenting a group exhibition curated around the theme of “Landscape Becomes Abstract”. Through its participation in Art Basel Hong Kong over the last several years, the gallery has continued to cultivate discourse that draws connections between modern, postwar, and

A Bold Expression in Color! This spring 2025, the Tomokazu Matsuyama Exhibition: FIRST LAST will be held at Tokyo’s new contemporary art destination, Azabudai Hills Gallery. This exhibition marks the artist’s first large-scale solo show in Tokyo, showcasing Matsuyama’s impressive works as he continues his global career from his New York base. Over the past quarter-century, Matsuyama