Shiro Matsui松井紫朗
Born in Tenri, Nara, 1960. Professor at Kyoto City University of Arts.
Matsui Shiro obtained his bachelor’s degree in sculpture from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1984 and a master’s degree from the same university in 1986. Exhibiting his first works while still a student, Matsui attracted attention in the 1980s as one of the faces behind the new Kansai expressionist movement known as the “Kansai New Wave”. After first using silicon rubber as a medium in 1991, Matsui went on to produce many works from man-made materials that managed to transform space in peculiar ways.
He has tried to do gardening in space and bring back bottled cosmic space in collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and has organized the Message in a Bottle art project in various areas since 2014.
