Tomona Matsukawa

Tomona Matsukawa

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 - 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

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Collection


Ohara Museum of Art, Japan

Mori Art Museum, Japan

Takahashi Collection, Japan

​Pigozzi Collection, Switzerland, USA