10 Facts About Fuyuko Matsui

Fuyuko Matsui is a contemporary Japanese artist, specialized in Nihonga paintings.

Fuyuko Matsui's art has been widely exhibited in Japan and she has been featured on TV and magazines.

Fuyuko Matsui was one of the featured artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo's "Annual 2006" exhibition and at the Yokohama Museum of Art's "Nihonga Painting: Six Provocative Artists" in August 2006.

Fuyuko Matsui grew up in Mori, Shizuoka Prefecture in a house that had been in her family for 14 generations.

When Japan was hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, Fuyuko Matsui was in her studio working on a painting.

In 2015, Fuyuko Matsui was chosen as a member of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Emblem Committee.

Fuyuko Matsui was firstly trained in western-style painting, but in her later education in Japanese painting, she utilizes her western-style painting skills in her traditional works that deal with silk and Japanese pigments.

Fuyuko Matsui once said that she will only paint women, as she herself as a woman can only understand women's feelings.

In 2011, she held an exhibition "Fuyuko Matsui: Becoming Friends with All the Children in the World" at Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan.

Fuyuko Matsui had four group exhibitions in 2006 in Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Yokohama Museum of Art in Kanagawa, Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, and the Sato Museum of Art in Tokyo.