The Jean Pigozzi Collection Of Contemporary Japanese Art
Love Yourself - 2018
73 x 100 cm
Oil on panel
(Photo: Ken Kato)
I Couldn’t Afford to Think About Anything Else - 2019
24.2 x 33.3 cm
Oil on panel
(Photo: Ken Kato)
That Was Everything I Could Do - 2019
97 x 145.5 cm
Oil on panel
(Photo: Ken Kato)
By tomorrow - 2019
16 x 27.3 cm
Oil on panel
(Photo: Ken Kato)
As a child I coudn’t see her as more than just my mother - 2021
116.7 x 116.7 cm
Oil on panel
(Photo: Ken Kato)
I decide for myself - 2022
60.6 x 45.5 cm Oil on linen mounted on panel (Photo: Ken Kato)
I can’t help thinking about it, but still - 2021
97 x 145.5 cm
Oil on panel
(Photo : Ken Kato)
Tomona Matsukawa
b. 1987, Aichi, Japan.
Education: Matsukawa graduated from Tama Art University in 2011, specializing in oil painting.
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.
Her recent exhibitions include Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice (Mori Museum, Tokyo, 2016), Shell Artist Selection(The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2013) and Artist Meets Kurashiki vol.12 Tomona Matsukawa (Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, 2016). She was a finalist for the Asian Art Award (2017), and was awarded the Fukazawa Ichiro Memorial Award (2011) and The 25th Holbein Scholarship (2010).
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Mirror, Flowers Gallery, Hong Kong
2022
My flower will never die, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo
2019
Love Yourself, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo
Love Yourself, haku, Kyoto
2017
Blind, Yuka Tsuruno Galley, Tokyo
2016
Artist Meets Kurashiki vol.12 Tomona Matsukawa,
Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama
2014
Night,Lemons,and little bits of Secrets, Yuka Tsuruno gallery, Tokyo
2011
around girls#00, yuka contemporary, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Under Current Satellite, N &A Art Site, Tokyo
Under Current, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai
2021
Small is Beautiful XXXIX, Flowers Gallery , London
Kaoru Ueda and Realistic Painting, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki
My River Runs to Thee, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo
Imagined Boundaries Contemporary Art in Obu, Allobu, Aichi
2020
OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo
The Rite of Spring, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo
2019
MAM collection 011: Yokomizo Shizuka ＋ Matsukawa Tomona - The Personal Time We Are Living, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2018
Charity Exhibition for Orange Ribbon, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo
2017
Asian Art Award Finalist Exhibition, Terrada Art Complex, Tokyo
2016
Summer Showcase 2016 Nagoya,gallery en,Aichi
If Only Bella Abzug Were Here,MARC STRAUS gallery,New York
at home,YUKA TSURUNO gallery,Tokyo
Roppongi Crossing 2016 my body your voice,Mori Art Museum,Tokyo
2015
Oil on canvas,YUKA TSURUNO gallery,Tokyo
2014
We,Who Can't Read Between the Lines,CAPSULE gallery,Tokyo
Fuseki-Holbein Scholarship Exhibition,REIJINSHA gallery,Tokyo
2013
Shell Artists Selection,The National Art Center,Tokyo
2011
Shell Art Award,Daikanyama Hillside Form,Tokyo
Joint Guraduation Exhibition of 5 Art University in Tokyo,The National Art Center,Tokyo
2010
ANGELICA01,yuka contemporary,Tokyo
Toyota Art Conpetition 2010,Toyota Municipal Museum of Art,Aichi
No Man's Land,The French Embassy,Tokyo
The 3rd Art_icle Award,Sato Museum of Art,Tokyo
The 28th Ueno Royal Museum Award,The Ueno Royal Museum,Tokyo
2009
Amuse Art Jam 2009,The Museum of Kyoto,Kyoto
Awards
2011
Fukuzawa Ichiro Award
The 25th Holbein Scholarship
2010
2nd Prize,The 3rd Art_icle Award
Biblography
[Catalogue] Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice, Mori Art Museum, 2016, p. 100 - 105
[Others]John L.Tran,Three artists wondering in the darkness,The Japan Times,June 15,2016,P.7 The Window of Arts, June 2016 (no. 393), Seikatsu no Tomo Co., p.16 - 17
The Asahi Shimbun(evening paper),5April 2016,p.5
Kazuhiko Kobayashi,Mainichi Shinbun morning edition,14 January 2016
Sanyo Shinbun evening edition,22 February 2016