Ryota Matsumoto - The Age of Hybrid Art

Ryota Matsumoto (松本良多) is the renowned philosopher of postdigital theory and visual artist known for the hybrid art. He is a principal and founder of an award-winning interdisciplinary design office, Ryota Matsumoto Studio based in New York and Tokyo.

Born in Tokyo, he was raised in Hong Kong and Japan. He received a Master of Architecture degree from University of Pennsylvania in 2007 after his studies at Architectural Association in London and Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art in early 90’s. Matsumoto has previously collaborated with a cofounder of the Metabolist Movement, Kisho Kurokawa, and with Arata Isozaki, Peter Christopherson, Cesar Pelli and MIT Media Lab before establishing his office.

He also had solo exhibitions at Transylvania University (2015), Los Angeles Center of Digital Art (2016) and Alviani ArtSpace, Pescara (2017).