Tomokazu Matsuyama

Male; b. 1976, Takayama, Gifu, Japan

Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

From Wikipedia:

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 York, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, among other galleries and institutions. His work can also be seen in the permanent collections of Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Microsoft Collection, the Cosmopolitan Hotel Group (NV), the Royal Family (Dubai, UAE), and The Standard Hotel (Andre Balazs Group), among others. In August 2014, Matsuyama was awarded the Harbour City Gallery Public Art Commission in Hong Kong.

From 2012 to May 2017, Matsuyama was an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.