| EDUCATION: | - | - |
| 1999-2002 | Royal Academy of Arts Schools, London | MA Fine Art Painting |
| 1996-1999 | Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London | BA(Hons) Fine Art Painting |
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| SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: | ||
| 2008 | Group show | Seven Seven gallery, London |
| 2008 | Simon Rumley & Zavier Ellis present New London School - new UK artists | Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica USA |
| 2007 | Rui Matsunaga | Primo Alonso, London |
| 2007 | I’ll be your mirror | Primo Alonso, London |
| 2006 | 10th Planet | Unit A04 Tower Bridge Business Complex, Bermondsey, UK |
| 2006 | I’ll be your mirror | Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool (UK tour) |
| 2006 | Jerusalem | Dean Clough, Halifax |
| 2006 | Heathen Threshold | Sartorial Contemporary, London |
| 2006 | Outdoors | Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London |
| 2005 | We have Left the City Gates | Nunnery Gallery, London (Curated by JJ Charlesworth) |
| 2005 | New London Kicks | Wooster Projects, New York |
| 2005 | RAdical | Jerwood Space. London |
| 2005 | NLK | SohoHouse, New York |
| 2004 | Zoo Art Fair | Flaca Gallery, London |
| 2004 | Le Petit Paysage | Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool (Toured nationally) |
| 2003 | trans- | Kyoto Art Centre, Japan |
| 2003 | -portal | Studio J, Osaka, Japan |
| 2002 | Post-Otaku | Michael Goedhuis Gallery, London |
| 2002 | Blood Auction | Contemporary Art Society, London |
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| AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: | - | |
| 2003 | Lexmark European Painting Prize Finalist, Eyestorm Gallery, London | |
| 2003 | Kyoto Arts Centre Residency, Japan | |
| 2002 | Royal Academy School of Art Fellow 02/03, London | |
| 2002 | May Cristea Award for Painting | |
| 2001 | Landseer Award for Painting | |
| 1998 | Arte Viva Residency, Senagallia, Italy | |
| 1998 | Cohn and Wolfe Awards 98 Finalist, Lethaby Gallery, London | |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY: | - | |
| 11.06 | ‘Painting People’, Charlotte Mullins – Thames and Hudson | |
| 5.2.05 | ‘Academic Brilliance’, Daily Telegraph magazine, Colin Gleadall (image featured) | |
| 7.2003 | ‘This weeks Champion’, Croydon Gaurdian (image featured) | |
| 7.2003 | ‘Artist in the last ten’, Croydon Advertiser (image featured) | |
| 1.11.2002 | Metro Life, The Evening Standard, (image featured) | |
| 10.2002 | ‘The Lexmark European Art Prize’, Art Preview (image featured) | |
| 9.2002 | The new RA School, Art Review (image featured) | |
| 6.2002 | ‘The Best of the Graduate Shows’, Art Review (image featured) | |
| 6.2002 | ‘Hot off the Press’, RA Magazine, Morgan Falconer (image featured) | |
| 2.6.2002 | ‘A Royal Revolt’, The Independent on Sunday, Arts Etc, Charlotte Mullins (image featured) | |
| 9.2001 | ‘Follow the Leader’, Art Review (image featured) | |
| 5.2001 | Artist Newsletter Magazine, (image featured) | |
| 20.4.2001 | ‘Zeitfung fur Essen’, NRZ, Germnay, Essen (image featured) | |
| 2.3.2001 | ‘Digitale Landschaften und neue Mythologien’, Germany, Essen (image featured) | |
| 24.2.2001 | ‘The week in two minutes’, The Times (image featured) | |
| 27.2.2001 | ‘Students get a show at the Royal Academy’, The Times, (image featured) | |
| 1.11.99 | ‘Future Map’, Artist Newsletter magazine, (image featured) | |
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| ARTIST STATEMENT: | - | |
| Matsunaga’s enigmatic paintings seem to fuse a multitude of references from ancient magics to cybernetics that all lead to a meditative sense of our universal human condition. Another perspective to seeing Matsunaga's paintings and drawings are that they are rooted in the Japanese background of a post nuclear bombed society and the cultural impact of that in relation to nature and fiction. Her works draw inspiration from contemporary Manga and mythology to reflect an increasingly technologised world where a new spirit of mind raises a range of questions to our relationship with nature, the unseen world of the magical and the spiritual. | ||