Contemporary artist Tomokazu Matsuyama was born in Hida-Takayama, Japan and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. His works bring together aspects of both Eastern and Western aesthetic systems, as to reflect his own bi-cultural experience of growing up between Japan and America.\n
\u201cBy raising questions of national and individual identity through the formal qualities and subject matter of his paintings, Matsuyama examines the \u201cnatural chaos\u201d of our social environments and challenges viewers to confront their own conceptions of cultural homogeneity,\u201d his website reads.\n
Matsuyama is influenced by many subjects, such as \u201cJapanese art from the Edo and Meiji eras, classical Greek and Roman statuary, French Renaissance painting, post-war contemporary art, and the visual language of global, popular culture as embodied by mass-produced commodities.\u201d Check out his latest creations below.\n