Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Bachelor of Economics, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, 1996-2000
The Best Part About Us, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, USA
Accountable Nature, The Long Museum, Chongqing, China
Accountable Nature, The Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
Same Same, Different, Lumine Zero, Shinjuku, Japan
Oh Magic Night, Hong Kong Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
Come with me, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA, USA
Outside Looking In, Lesley Kehoe Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Palimpsest, Rauchauer Institute at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Thousand Regards, Katzen Art Center at American University Museum, Washington DC, USA
East Weets Mest, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY, USA
In Case You’re Lost, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Glancing at the Twin Peak, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY,USA
Between the Polar, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Chiba, Japan
Nature Morte, The Hole, New York, NY
We Used To Gather, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
Fixed Contained, Kotaro Nukaga, Tokyo, Japan
Pardon My Language by Tomokazu Matsuyama, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Forms and Effects: Ukiyo-e to Anime, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ
Changing World Through Art, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Re:Define, Goss Foundation, Dallas, TX
The Open Day Book Exhibition, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Changing the World Through Art, Haunch of Venison Gallery, New York, NY
UNFRAMED 2009, 15 Union Square, New York, NY
Piece of Peace, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Natural Drift, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Chiba, Japan
Levi’s Strauss and Co. (Japan)
LED Billboard installation/ jing, Harajyuku 5
Chiba JPF Dome, installation of large-scale sculptures and a mural, Chiba, Japan
Commissioned by Culver City, Los Angels
Commissioned by Long Museum
Commissioned by East Japan Railway Company and LUMINE
Commissioned by Art Powers Japan
Commissioned by City of Beverly Hills
Commission by Goldman Global Arts
Commissioned by Peanuts Global Arts, SONY, Culture Corps
Outdoor installation
Tomokazu Matsuyama IN AND OUT, Tokyo: Published by: Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd Book Edition Department, Bijutsiu Shuppan-sha, 2021
Fixed Contained, Tokyo: KOTARO NUKAGA, 2019, Text by Yuji Akimoto
No Place Like Home, Luxembourg: Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, 2018, Text by Hollis Goodall
Pardon My Language, Luxembourg: Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, 2018, Text by Peter Doroshenko
Tomokazu Matsuyama: Hong Kong. HOCA Foundation 2017, Text by Rory Padeken and Lauren Every-Wortman
Tomokazu Matsuyama: A Floating World Redux Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, 2016, Text by Shiner Eric.
Palimpsest, Cambridge: Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University 2013, Text by David L Howell.
Thousand Regards, Tokyo: Panorama Publishing 2013, Text by Yayoi Shionoiri
Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints New York, NY. Japan Society, 2013
Further: Berkeley: Gingko Press, 2010, pp.156-203
In Case You’re Lost, San Francisco: Frey Noris Gallery, 2010, Text by Eric Shiner
Tomokazu Matsuyama, Tokyo: Panorama Publishing, 2010, Text by Eric Shiner, Alexandra Chang, Kenji Kubota
Found Modern Library, Berkeley, CA. Gingko Press, 2007, Text by Alexandra Chang