I'm from an Asian background, heavily influenced by decorative culture and figurative artwork. So for me, coming to New York and trying to bridge all these influences, what American art is, Hopper’s impact on me was not small.
Tomokazu Matsuyama
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Tomokazu Matsuyama reflects on modern life in a vivid ode to American realist Edward Hopper.
Morning Sun Dance, painted in 2025, is the centrepiece of Matsuyama’s current exhibition at Edward Hopper House. The artwork is a homage to the 1952 painting Morning Sun by Edward Hopper, which depicts his wife, Jo, staring out of a window onto a New York skyline. Inspired by Hopper’s renowned use of light, Matsuyama created the piece in his own New York studio. Through his distinctive fusion of Japanese and Western artistic styles and motifs, he reflects on the timeless experience of urban solitude.
This embellished screenprint reflects the artist's painting methodology of meticulously building successive layers with different techniques. The edition's layers are made up of bespoke combinations of shimmer powder and a range of varnishes selected for specific areas of the artwork. The print's custom frame is designed to echo the architectural aspects of the Edward Hopper House itself.
Tomokazu Matsuyama15 collaborationsTomokazu Matsuyama, also known as Matzu, creates energetic pop-inspired artworks that muse on cultural identity in the age of the internet. Having grown up between Japan and America, Matzu explores the personal implications of cross-cultural identity for a globalised generation. His bright, acrylic and mixed media paintings move freely between abstraction and representation, and merge Eastern and Western art histories – from Pop Art, graffiti and Manga to the Edo and Meiji eras, French Renaissance painting and classical Greek and Roman sculpture. Matzu’s canvases are rarely rectangular. Instead, they take on irregular shapes that often suggest the outline of an ancient Japanese scroll. Matzu, like his Japanese colleague Takashi Murakami, also works with multiple artisans to create his works with exceptional levels of technique reminiscent of traditional Japanese painting. Combining domestic motifs like books, plants and furniture with the expressionless faces of his figures, he blends the familiar and the strange in a representation of his own personal identity between two different homes.
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