Tomona Matsukawa

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Tomona Matsukawa（b. 1987, Aichi, Japan）graduated BA in oil painting from Tama Art University in 2011.
Matsukawa’s distinctive realistic and somewhat dramatic paintings are born from interviews with other women of her generation and the titles and motifs are picked from the phrases that strook her during the conversations. Retaining her interest in themes of her earlier works such as the remnants of daily life, the humanity that lingers in certain gestures, and the interiority of human beings, a fragment of scenes from everyday life derived from the conversations are reconstructed on her flat and smooth surface. In this reconstruction, there is a simultaneous attempt to transfigure the aspect of vulnerability in life. Her works are collected in Mori Art Museum, Japan, Ohara Museum of Art, Japan, Takahashi Collection, Japan, and Japigozzi Collection, Switzerland and USA. Since she has received Fukuzawa Ichiro Memorial Award in 2011, she has participated in important exhibitions such as ‘Roppongi Crossing 2016’ and ‘MAM Collection 011’ and is known for making the art scene in Japan. The artist has recently succeeded a solo exhibition and a group exhibition in Paris.

Courtesy of Kotaro Nukaga