Matazō Kayama

Matazō Kayama studied at Tokyo University of the Arts. The recorded working language is Japanese. The field of work recorded is painting. Employment is recorded with Tama Art University. Work by Matazō Kayama is recorded in the collections of Saint Louis Art Museum and Smithsonian American Art Museum. Distinctions recorded are Order of Culture and Person of Cultural Merit.

• Name — Matazō Kayama • Born — 1927 • Birthplace — Kyoto, Empire of Japan • Died — 2004 • Place of death — Japan • Field — Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking • Training — Tokyo University of the Arts • Movement — Nihonga, Cubism

Kayama Matazo was a painter who employed a mixed technique. In 1949, he graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts with a degree in painting. Around 1960 he traveled, gave exhibitions, and held conferences abroad. Starting in 1950, he participated in expositions of Sōzō Bijutsu (創造美術), which merged into Shinseisaku in 1951, where he was awarded four times through 1955. From 1958 on, he participated in international expositions of modern Japanese artists. In 1967, he also participated in the exhibition Masterpieces of Modern Japanese Painting at the State Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg and at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. In 1957, he was granted the Young Painters Prize in the Asahi News. In 1973 he was granted the prize for Japanese Art and, in 1980, he received the Prize of the Ministry of Culture. He became a professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 1988.