BIOGRAPHY

Ryota Matsumoto 

松本良多

Ryota Matsumoto is a principal and founder of an award-winning interdisciplinary design office, Ryota Matsumoto Studio. He is an artist, designer and urban planner. Born in Tokyo, he was raised in Hong Kong and Japan. He received a Master of Architecture degree from University of Pennsylvania in 2007 after his studies at Architectural Association in London and Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art in early 90’s. Matsumoto has previously collaborated with a cofounder of the Metabolist Movement, Kisho Kurokawa, and with Arata Isozaki, Peter Christopherson of Coil, Cesar Pelli, MIT Media Lab, Yunus Centre and Nihon Sekkei Inc. before establishing his office. 

He presented his work as an immersive lecture-performance at the 5th symposium of the Imaginaries of the Future at Cornell University, the Espaciocenter workshop at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Oslo National Academy of the Arts and NTT InterCommunication Center. 

He had served as an MFA adjunct lecturer of Transart institute, University of Plymouth from 2016 to 2018 and currently teaches at Asagaya Institute of Art and Design as a visiting critic. His academic career started as a teaching assistant for the Nature and the Man-made seminar by Vincent Joseph Scully Jr. in 1993. He is a research associate at the New Centre of Research & Practice found by Mohammad Salemy, Jason Adams and Reza Negarestani.

Matsumoto is the recipient of Visual Art Open First Prize, FILE（Electronic Language International Festival) Prix Lux Finalist, Florence Biennale Mixed Media 2nd Place Award, Premio Ora Prize Italy 5th Edition, Premio Ora Prize Spain 1st Edition, Donkey Art Prize III Edition Finalist, Best of Show IGOA Toronto, Art Kudos Best of Show Award, Lynx International Prize Be Art Builder Award, Lumen Prize Finalist and Western Bureau Art Prize Honorable Mention.

He was awarded the Gold Artist Prize from ArtAscent Journal, the 1st Place Prize from Exhibeo Art Magazine and the Award of Excellence from the Creative Quarterly Journal of Art and Design in 2015 and 2016. His work is part of the permanent collection of University of Texas at Tyler.

His work, writings, and interviews were published in Kalubrt Magazine, University of North Carolina Wilmington Journal Palaver, Furtherfield.org, The Journal of Wild Culture, Studio Visit Magazine, Fresh Paint Magazine, H+ Magazine, International Artist Magazine, Made In Mind Magazine, Arizona State University Journal Superstition Review, Creative Review, Next Nature Network, Rhizome.org, Carbon Culture Review, KooZA/rch, Supersonic Art, Component Design (Winka Dubbeldam ed.), Post Digital Aethetics (Berry and Dieter ed.), Drawing Discourse (University of North Carolina Asheville), Highlike(SEPI-SP editors) and Drawing Futures (The Bartlett UCL) among others. 

Matsumoto's multidisciplinary projects have been exhibited recently at Meadows Gallery University of Texas at Tyler, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery University of North Carolina Asheville, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, National Museum of Korea, Van Der Plas Gallery, ArtHelix Gallery, Caelum Gallery, Limner Gallery, the Cello Factory, University of the District of Columbia, Lux Art Gallery, Studio Montclair, Manifest Gallery, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes,  Art Basel Miami, ISEA International, FILE Sao Paulo, Nook Gllery and Arts and Heritage Centre Altrincham. 

He's had solo exhibitions at Transylvania University and Los Angeles Center of Digital Art in 2015 and 2016 respectively.

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ABOUT ARTWORK AND RESEARCH

The varying scale, juxtaposition of biomorphic forms, intertwined textures, oblique/anamorphic projections and visual metamorphoses are employed as the multi-layered drawing methodologies to question and investigate the ubiquitous nature of urban meta-morphology, emerging realities of the Anthropocene and their visual representation in the context of non-Euclidean configuration. Furthermore, the application of these techniques allow the work to transcend the boundaries between analog and digital media as well as between two- and multi-dimensional domains.

• Invitation Award, KOSES 2018 International Exhibition, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea, May, 2018

• 4th Place Award, 3rd Arts in Harmony Annual International Show, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN, March 2018

• Winner, Visual Art Open Juried Competition, Chester, UK, December, 2017
• Gracie Award, 26th Annual International Society of Experimental Artists Juried Exhibition Review, October, 2017

• 2nd Prize, Asociación Cultural Fomenar Prize Juried Exhibitio, Santa Maria di Chiavica, Verona, July 2017

• Honorable Mention, Open 2018 Show, Colors of Humanity Art Gallery, Everett, PA, January 2018
• 100 Best Award, Creative Quarterly, The Journal of Art and Design, New York, December 2017
• Award of Excellence, Creative Quarterly 47, the Journal of Art and Design, Brooklyn, NY, December 2017
• Overall Prize, Visual Art Open Competition, Abbey Square, Chester, November 2017
• Best of Show Gracie Award, 26th Annual ISEA Juried International Art Exhibition, Sanibel, FL, October 2017
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• Curators Choice Award, Gallery 25N, Peekskill, NY, August 2017
• Long listed, Secret Art Prize, Curious Duke Gallery, London, May 2017
• Finalist, Visual Art Open Competition, Abbey Square, Chester, May 2017
• Honorable Mention,
• Finalist, Premio Marchionni 2017, Museum MAGMMA, Sardinia, May 2017
• Purchase Prize, Permanent Collection, 

• Best of Show, 2nd Annual Abstract Art Contest, International Gallery Of The Arts (IGOA), Toronto, January 2017
• 1st Place Award, The Second Catskill Digital Art Competition, Catskill, NY, October 2016 
• Short-listed Artist, KUNST HEUTE AWARD 2016, IKH-Publishing, Martina Kolle, October 2016

• Finalist, Lynx International Prize of Contemporary Art, Trieste, September 2016

• Best of Show Award, Art Kudos International Juried Competition 2016, Riverside, CA,
• Honorable Mention, For the Artists by the Artists Juried Art Competition, CA, August 2016
• Long-listed, Celeste Prize 2016, Celeste Network, Siena, Italy, August 2016
• Short-listed Artist, Secret Art Prize 2016, Curious Duke Gallery, London, August, 2016
• Finalist, Art Prize No. 94, Abstract/Experimental Art, International Artist Magazine, Scottsdale, AZ, August 2016

• Finalist, T.I.N.A Prize Winter 2016, Associazione Culturale Radar, Venezia, July

• Finalist, 

• Short-listed Artist, Jackson’s Art Open Prize, Farleigh Place, London, May 2016
• Premio Ora Prize, Italy 5th Edition,  Associazione culturale Radar, San Donà di Piave, 

• Recommended Artist From the Jury, Premio Combat Prize, Blob Art, Livorno, 
• Short-listed Artist, Foci Arts and Writing Competition, May 2016
• Gold Artist, the Heat Issue of ArtAscent Journal, April, 2016

• Award of Excellence, Creative Quarterly, the Journal of Art and Design, Brooklyn, NY, April 2016

• Premio Ora Prize, Spain 1st Edition, Associazione Culturale Radar, San Donà di 

• 1st Prize, Palm Art Award, Art Domain Group, Quedlinburg, December, 2015

• 1st Place Solo Exhibit Winner, LACDA International Competition, Los Angeles 

• 1st Place Winner, Summer Palette Art Competition, Exhibeo Art Competition, Montreal, 
• Special Recognition, 

• Publishers Choice Award, Art and Beyond Magazine, Morton Groves, IL, November 2015

• 2nd Place Award, Mixed Media, Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso

• Silver Award, Art Forward Contest 3, Art Ltd. Los Angeles, CA, October, 2015
• Finalist, ViewPoint 47 Juried Art Competition, Cincinnati Art Club, OH, October 2015

• Special Award of Be Art Builder, Lynx International Prize of Contemporary Art, Trieste, September 2015

• Winner, International Current Masters Volume X Front Cover Competition, World Wide Art Books, CA, 2015

• Second Place Award, Art Kudos International Competition, Riverside, CA, August, 2015

• Award of Excellence, CQ39, Creative Quarterly, New York, August, 2015 

• Bronze Award, Art Forward Contest 2, Art Ltd. Los Angeles, CA, August, 2015

• Finalist, Artist's Magazine 32nd Annual Art Competition, The artist’s Magazine, Blue Ash, OH
• Finalist, Lumen Prize 2015,  The Global Award For Digital Art, Senghennydd Rd, Cardiff, August 2015
• Finalist, Neo:Art Prize, Neo:Artists Studios CIC, The Market Place, Bolton, August 2015
• Selected Artist, Visions Art Contest II, Malamegi Lab, Villanova di San Daniele del Friuli, July, 2015

• Finalist, No.88 Favorite Subjects Competition, International Artist, Scottsdale, AZ, July 2015

• Finalist, Donkey Art Prize 3, Blindonkey Cultural Association, Verona, June 2015
• Honorable Mention, Viewpoints 2015, 18
• Finalist, LACDA International Juried Competition, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, June 2015

• Special Recognition,17th Annual Digital & Mixed Media International Art Exhibition, Upstream gallery, 2015

• Short-listed Artist, 

• Finalist, 10th International Drawing Annual Competition, Manifest gallery, Cincinnati, OH, April, 2015 

• Bronze Prize, Artists of Magnificence, ArtAscent Journal, April, 2015

• 1st Place Award, obliterazioni 2015, Nam Visual Art, Torino, 2015

• Finalist

• 3rd Place, Art of Abstraction, Exhibio Art, Montreal, 2015

• Certificate of Excellence, Palm Art Award, 2014

• 1st Place, Mixed Media Mash Up, Linus Galleries, Los Angeles, 2014

• Honorable Mention, London International Creative Competition, Farmani Group, London, 2014 
• 1st Place, Qingdao Mixed-Use Redevelopment Master Plan Competition, Japanese Railway, 2011
• 1st Place