Minami Matsumoto
Born: Singapore
Nationality: Japanese
Artist’s background
Minami Matsumoto, a Japanese artist born in Singapore, is a student in Tokyo with a deep passion for art. Her works reflect her Japanese-Singaporean heritage, combining the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi, which appreciates the beauty in impermanence, and her reminiscences of Singapore, particularly the serenity of being surrounded by tropical plants. Through painting tranquil moments, Minami reflects on and appreciates the beauty in fragility.
Her talent has earned her the Gakuten Japan Student Art & Design National Award, and the painting was exhibited at the National Art Centre, Tokyo. Having been interviewed by Tokyo TV and having had her works exhibited in Singapore, Tokyo, and NYC, she continues to push the boundaries of oil painting while studying Fine Arts and Curation at Parsons School of Design (NYC) and Art History / Visual Arts at Sophia University (Tokyo).
Education and Past Exhibitions
Education:
Parsons School of Design | The New School, New York, NY
Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
United World College of South East Asia Dover Campus, Singapore
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Creative Projects
Parsons Japanese Creative
Collaborative Group Exhibition “Home is where __ is.” with Tama Art University, New York City, USA (April 2023)
Purple Stockings
Group Exhibition “Re: Shojo -From Shojo to Human Being- ”, Tokyo, Japan (July 2022)
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Exhibitions:
2023 Night of the next, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY, USA
2023 Home is where ___ is., Brooklyn, NY, USA
2021 The Exhibition of Gakuten Japan Student Art & Design Award, The National Art Center, Tokyo (国立新美術館), Tokyo, Japan
2020 IB Visual Art final exhibition, United World College of South East Asia, Singapore
2018 'IN' 2018 - Singapore International School Art Exhibition, Australian High Commission, Singapore