Shuhei Matsuyama Born in Tokyo in 1955. He has moved to Italy 31 years ago in 1976 and currently resides and works in Milan. His works have been exhibited in more than 100 personal exhibitions and 150 group exhibition mainly in Italy, Japan and the United States.Most notable are the 5 major SHIN-ON exhibitions held in Venice over 10 years each in coincidence to the Venice Biennale. An exhibition touring the 5 continents where the works of each of these 5 exhibitions will be presented in 5 different rooms is now being planned.In recent years he has exhibited at the Museum of Modern andContemporary Art of Ferrara and the Bargello Museum in Florence.In the United States, personal exhibition have been held at theChelsea Museum and the Lobby Gallery in the Wall Street Journal headquarters office building amongst others.In France his works have been used for the cover of the annual program of the Conservatoire de Paris.He has also been involved in numerous public space projects. He has been responsible for the production of a 5m-column sculpture in Hakata, Japan, a mosaic fountain in Rieti, Italy, and for the artworks used for the president suit room in the Four Seasons Hotel,Saudi Arabia, in addition to other projects in hospitals, hotels,apartments and restaurants. He is currently working on a mural painting at the Hospital in Italy.

Here I have learned many new things
that have been beneficial to my spirit,
as my friends say, but it is to Japan
that I owe the experience and incentive
that have allowed me to express myself with joy
in life, which is if nothing else if not art.
I believe joy is the most important
thing in life and we can
attain it only with temperance.
In this way it is possible to lead a simple life
and therefore a creative one; somewhere between
give and take there is a perfect
equilibriun because if it weren't so
inequality would lead man to unhappiness.
The artist (or man) must be free and
that is possible only by knowing many
things.
It is because of this that I want to see, to try,
to touch all things
so as to bring these experiences back
to the great masterpiece that is in every
artist.
To be moved, to explore and then
to express ourselves is nothing more than
immerging one's self in art but, since
consciousness is not exhausted in the
present, we need to
approach it from a passive
and immobile state: only by looking
ahead can the spirit reach
maturity.
For those who ask me:
Why do you work?
I answer,
to grow.
Why do you want to grow?
To know myself
Why do you want to know yourself?
To express myself
Why do you want to express yourseIf ?
To be an artist (a man).
Why do you want to be an artist?
To be free.
Why do you want to be free?
To receive joy from life.