"Desert Bloom" Artwork

An experienced and adept painter with works held in numerous international collections, Matsumoto hand-paints birds into artworks carefully crafted with a high level of detail. Her work has been presented in solo shows in the U.S. and Hong Kong, as well as in group shows throughout the US and in Vancouver, Tokyo and at the U.S. Embassy in Oman. Honors include a 2021 grant by the New York Foundation of the Arts City Artist Corps and in 2019 she was an artist in residence at the prestigious MASS MoCA museum studio program in North Adams, MA. Her decades-long interest in birds was inspired growing up around birds owned by her grandfather, a bird breeder during an era when harboring birds in cages was popular. She lives and works in a forest full of wildlife, in a house full of art, in the lower Hudson River Valley region of New York.