Education Cranbrook Academy of Art/ Michigan/ BFA Sculpture Dept.
Virginia Commonwealth Univ./ Virginia/ MFA Sculpture Dept.

One-person Exhibition
2000 GH Gallery "Denki Tofu" Tokyo
1998 E & Y "Body Conscious 1998" Tokyo
1997 Galerie Den+Floor2 "Body Conscious" Tokyo
1996 City Gallery of Contemporary Art "United States of Mind" Raleigh, NC
1995 Honen-In Temple "Installation in Honen-In" Kyoto
1992 Soh Gallery "BUGS" Tokyo
1992 Gallery Art Soko "Circular Celebration" Tokyo
1991 Mattress Factory "Celebration" Pittsburgh, PA
1987 Gallery White Art "Matsuribayashi" Tokyo
1987 Kamakura Gallery "Ginza Rikyu" Tokyo
1986 Miyagi Museum "Dream Island" Sendai, Miyagi
1983 Space WA New York
1980 Science Museum of Virginia Richmond, VA
Collaboration
2000 Sagacho Exhibit Space "Sea Change"
with Mutsuki Ogasawara		 Tokyo
1998 Gallery Den "19.99 x 19.99"
with O JUN		 Tokyo
1997 Ciba Specialty Chemicals with Yukio Hashimoto Takarazuka, Hyogo
1996 Gallery TK Art "Summer Room"
with Yoichi Nakamuta		 Osaka
1988 Sagacho Exhibit Space with Shelagh Keely, Goro Namerikawa Tokyo
1983 Space WA with Tsuji, Suzuki, Kosugi, Julius New York
Group Exhibition
2003 Imado works "990 Yen Exhibition" Tokyo
2002 Imado works "Tokyo Young Lights 2002" Tokyo
1993- 95
Soh Gallery "Miniature Size Exhibition" Tokyo
1989 Tochigi Museum "Moments Sonors" Utsunomiya, Tochigi
1987 Mitsubishi-Soko "Warehouse Final" Tokyo
1987 Obuse-Doh "Obuse-kei" Obuse, Nagano
Installation
1996 Living Art Gallery "Tennen Design-I" Tokyo
1990 96th IOC Session Tokyo
1988 World Expo Performance "Natura Morta"
with Goro Namerikawa(Sankaijuku)		 Blasebane, Australia
1987 NHK "Matsuru" Tokyo
Teaching
1997- Women's College of Fine Arts Tokyo
1993- Musashino Art Univ. Tokyo


Yoji Matsumura by Masayuki Nishie (culutural anthropologist)
The works of Yoji Matsumura do not play to people's brains; they work on the entire body. Not only when he uses materials like bamboo, pieces of wood or cloth, but even when he chooses colder materials such as hunks of lead or steel pipes, the works he creates are not ones that demand interpretation or analysis on the part of the viewer. Rather, they tend to elicit feelings of sympathy or to awaken expectations. Perhaps it would be truer to say that, conversely, the works are made in such a way that it is the viewers who are induced to seek such feelings from the work. But, it is not the function of this type of interaction to bring the work to completion. Instead, the interaction serves to make it function as work. This is because his works are not displayed to be seen; they are there for people to be with. In other words, the people in the presence of the work share in its space, the gradual chages that occur there with the passage of time and the fresh new meanings that unfold with it. Of course, the contents of the shared meaning are not singular in nature. There is a process of giving and receiving meaning.
(Japanese)



Iriya FACTORY is a group of artists and designers who are interested in pursuing their work beyond the limits of the narrowly defined fields of Art and Design. Installation artist Yoji Matsumura and interior designer Yukio Hashimoto collaborated for the first time in 1997 on the design work for the building interior of a new company, Ciba Specialty Chemicals. The results of this collaboration can be viewed on this home page.
In Japan, the blend of unique traditions and contemporary approaches can be seen in every aspect of daily life as well as in the creative work of artists. It is a challenge for artists to harmonize these two contradictory tendencies.
Iriya FACTORY is a leader in the creation of original art & design work such as interior design, furniture, graphic and art works.