Lauren Matsumoto

An accomplished 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 US and Hong Kong, as well as in group shows throughout the US and in Vancouver, Tokyo and 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 by growing up around birds owned by her grandfather, a bird breeder.

Masters of Fine Art, School of Visual Arts
BA in Fine Art, Yale University
Rhode Island School of Design Visiting Student

Solo Exhibitions:

2025 Lauren Matsumoto: Lovebirds, Goetze Art & Design, Memphis, TN

2024 Lauren Matsumoto and Wendy Westlake (Two Person Show), Shain Gallery, Charlotte, NC

2022 Lauren Matsumoto and Eric Olsen (Two Person Show), Shain Gallery, Charlotte, NC

2015 Fragments, Fabrik Gallery, HONG KONG

2023 Group Shows:

Shain Gallery, Small Works Show, Charlotte, NC

Shain Gallery, 25th Anniversary Show, Charlotte, NC

New Works, Goetze Art and Design, Memphis, TN

2022 Group Shows:

Small Works, Shain Gallery, Charlotte, NC

Sound and Sight, Curated by Nascent Art, Brooklyn, NY

2021 Group Shows:

Configurations, Blank Space Gallery, New York, NY

2020 Group Shows:

Brooklyn Collected: Artists Next Door, Nascent Art, Brooklyn, NY

Dumbo/Vinegar Hill Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY

2019 Group Shows:

Love and Peace, Usagi NY, Brooklyn, NY

Access Art, Brooklyn Art Council, Brooklyn, NY

Understory, MiXX Atelier, Telluride, CO

2018 Group Shows:

Into the Woods, MiXX Atelier, Telluride, CO

The Other Art Fair: New York, May 3-6, Brooklyn, NY

Access Art, Brooklyn Art Council, Brooklyn, NY

Art on Paper Fair, New York, NY

2017 Group Shows:

Access Art, Brooklyn Art Council, Brooklyn, NY

WOW x WOW, Scotland, UK

The Other Art Fa...