Artists - Tomona Matsukawa - Ceysson & Bénétière

Tomona Matsukawa

Tomona Matsukawa That time might be the most calming for me

Tomona Matsukawa It's a long time ago, but it never fades in my mind

Tomona Matsukawa After that all I hear is the sound of the rain.

Tomona Matsukawa I don't know if it was the right decision, but at least I don't regret it.

Tomona Matsukawa Five years ago, I never imagined it would turn out this way

Tomona Matsukawa There was no reason, and I don't think I needed one

Born in 1987 in Aichi, Japan

Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan

Presentation

Matsukawa’s distinctive realistic and somewhat dramatic paintings are born from interviews with other women of her generation and the titles and motifs are derived from phrases that were striking during these 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.

Collection

Ohara Museum of Art, Japan

Mori Art Museum, Japan

Takahashi Collection, Japan

Pigozzi Collection, Switzerland

Tomona Matsukawa graduated Tama Art University 2011 having specialized in oil painting.

Matsukawa’s photographic paintings usually depict intimate belongings of women, particularly those close to her age. Although her paintings are photorealistic, they are distorted reflections of reality as the malformations of the objects she paints are selectively exaggerated. Old red stilettos with grazed heels and salmon pink dresses silently sunk to the floor: the absence of its owners and its hackneyed state evoke emblematic struggles of women on both a personal and societal level in the 21st century.

Solo shows at Ceysson Gallery
Tomona Matsukawa, Paris
May 16 - June 22, 2024

Group shows at Ceysson Gallery
Collective, Paris
June 27 - July 13, 2024

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

Mirror, Flowers Gallery, Hong Kong

2022

My flower will never die, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2019

Love Yourself, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Love Yourself, haku, Kyoto, Japan

2017

Blind, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2016

Artist Meets Kurashiki vol.12 Tomona Matsukawa, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan

2014

Night, Lemons, and little bits of Secrets, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022

Under Current Satellite, N&A Art Site, Tokyo, Japan

Under Current, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China

It’s probably me., azumagaoka articulation, Kanagawa, Japan

KOTARO NUKAGA Ensemble #1, KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan

2021

Small is Beautiful XXXIX, Flowers Gallery , London, UK

Kaoru Ueda and Realistic Painting, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japan

My River Runs to Thee, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Imagined Boundaries Contemporary Art in Obu, Allobu, Aichi, Japan

2020

OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR,
Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

The Rite of Spring, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2019

MAM collection 011: Yokomizo Shizuka+Matsukawa Tomona

The Personal Time We Are Living, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2018

Charity Exhibition for Orange Ribbon, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2017

Asian Art Award Finalist Exhibition, Terrada Art Complex, Tokyo, Japan

2016

Summer Showcase 2016 Nagoya, gallery en, Aichi, Japan

If Only Bella Abzug Were Here, MARC STRAUS gallery, New York, USA

at home, YUKA TSURUNO gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Roppongi Crossing 2016 my body your voice,Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2015

Oil on canvas, YUKA TSURUNO gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2014

We, Who Can't Read Between the Lines, CAPSULE gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Fuseki-Holbein Scholarship Exhibition, REIJINSHA gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2013

Shell Artists Selection, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

2011

Shell Art Award, Daikanyama Hillside Form, Tokyo, Japan

2010

ANGELICA01, yuka contemporary, Tokyo, Japan

Toyota Art Conpetition 2010, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art,Aichi, Japan

No Man's Land, The French Embassy,Tokyo, Japan

The 3rd Art_icle Award, Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

The 28th Ueno Royal Museum Award, The Ueno Royal Museum,Tokyo, Japan

Collection

Ohara Museum of Art, Japan

Mori Art Museum, Japan

Takahashi Collection, Japan

Pigozzi Collection, Switzerland, USA

Ceysson & Bénétière

Tomona Matsukawa

Tomona Matsukawa

Tomona Matsukawa

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Tomona Matsukawa - As I Am - SUB FR

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