Rui Matsunaga
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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
Exhibitions
2025 Two person show, the Atkinson Southport, UK (with Nahem Shoa)
2024 Narrow Way to the Interior, Richard Koh Gallery, Singapore (Solo Show)
Seen and Unseen, Ferens Art Gallery Museum, UK (curated by Nahem Shoa)
2023 The Story So Far , the Atkinson Southport, UK
2022 Open House in Maastricht, Guus Roell gallery, Netherland
New Direction, The Atkinson in South Port, UK
Carry On Baggage, the Galelia Augustine, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 The Myth for Survival, Solo Exhibition, Daiwa Foundation (大和日英基金), London, UK
Rui Matsunaga Solo Exhibition, the Atkinson South Port Museum, South Port, UK
2020 Christmas Show, Dekka Art, Margate
2019 Mystic Lamb and Silicon Prophet, Paper Gallery, Manchester (Solo Show)
(Un)Staged, Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester, UK
Group Show, Dekka Arts, Margate, UK
Studio 88 Art Residency, Chiangmai, Thailand
2018 Wizz, White Conduite Project, London, UK
Caroming, C4RD(centre for recent drawing) London, UK
The Sky’s Gone Out (curated by Bella Easton and Chris Hawtin), ARTHOUSE1, London,UK
Hepworth Print Fair 2018, Paper Gallery, West Yorkshire, UK
Manchester Contemporary 2018, Paper Gallery, Manchester, UK
2017 Into the Wild Abyss (three persons show with Nahem Shoa and Gordon Cheung), Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Gallery, Exeter, UK
2016 Rui Matsunaga Paintings (Solo), House of St. Barnabas, London, UK
Hard-boiled Wonderland, Jessica Carlisle, London, UK, UK
2015 Animism, Jessica Carlisle, London, UK
2014 Macmillan De’Longhi Art Auction, Darren Baker Gallery, London
2013 A Place Where Artists and Creatures Collide, Artwise, Hall Place, Bexley, UK
2012 John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
MK Arts for Health Shoosmiths Art Prize, Milton Keynes Hospital, Milton Keynes, UK
Immotal Nature, Edel Assanti Gallery, London (curated by Gordon Cheung), London, UK
Hello and Goodbye, 17-25 Cremer St, London, UK
2011 Polemically Small on paper, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angels, (curated by Edward Lucie-Smith, Simon Rumley, Max Presneill, Zavier Ellis), USA
2008 Future Can Wait, T1 The Old Brewery, London, UK
New London School, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
I don’t speak very much (two persons show with Miho Sato) I-MYU Projects, London Kapellmeister, Seven Seven Gallery, London,UK
Last Adventure of Primo Alonso, Primo Alonso Gallery, London, UK
2007 Rui Matsunaga Painting and Drawings (Solo), Primo Alonso, London, UK
Celeste Art Prize Finalist, Atlantis Gallery, London, UK
2006 I’ll be your Mirror, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool Jerusalem, Dean Clough, Halifax, UK
Outdoors, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, UK
Awards, Fellowship, Residencies and Publications
2023 Rui Matsunaga Guus Roell Collection
2019 Studio88 Art Residency, Chiangmai, Thailand
2015 “Painting Now”, Suzanne Hudson – Thames and Hudson
2013 MK Arts for Health Shoosmiths Art Prize, Milton Keynes Hospital, Milton Keynes
2012 John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2007 Celeste Art Prize Finalist, Trumen Brewey, London
2006 “Painting People”, Charlotte Mullins – Thames and Hudson
2003 Lexmark European Painting Prize Finalist, Eyestorm Gallery, London
Kyoto Arts Centre Residency, Japan
Royal Academy school of Arts Fellow 02/03, London
2002 May Cristea Award for Painting, London
2001 Landseer Award for Painting, London
1998 Arte Viva Residency, Senagallia, Italy
Cohn and Wolfe Awards 98 Finalist, Lethaby Gallery, London
Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum London
The Atkinson South Port Museum, Southport
University of Arts London
The Amsterdam Collection for SOHO House Museum of Senegalia Italy
The Mag Collection, London
Clifford Chance Art Collection,
London House of St. Barnabas, London