Tomoya Matsuzaki
Birth Date: 1977
School: Central Saint Martins
Painter, born in Fukuoka, Japan, who won the Young Artist of the Year award in The Hunting Art Prizes, 2002, at Royal College of Art, having also shown in the previous year. The 2002 winning entry, Under Sedation, was intended “to create a sense of dream-like wandering in the viewer”. Matsuzaki did a fine art foundation course at Chelsea College of Art & Design, 1998–9, from 1999 studying for a bachelor’s degree in fine art at Central St Martins College. In 2003 Matsuzaki was one of four artists in Spaceconcepts at Austin/Desmond Fine Art.