Arts. Later in 2007, Matsui obtained her Doctoral Degree (PhD) in Japanese Painting with her doctoral dissertation "The Inescapable Awakening to Pain, Through Visual Perception via the Sensory Nerves." Works Matsui shows her dedicated craftsmanship in her Japanese paintings. She was firstly trained in western-style painting, but in her later education in Japanese painting, she utilizes her western-style painting skills in her traditional works that deal with silk and Japanese pigments. Matsui once said that she will only paint women, as she herself as a woman can only understand women's feelings. Her "New Kusozu" series was inspired by the traditional painting genre of Kusozu, but also founded honestly on the reality of being a human being and a woman in the world today, transcending a mere adaptation of a classical theme and truly realizes a contemporary Kusozu sequence. Her stance of being as faithful as possible to her own reality gives her works contemporary relevance and power. Exhibitions Fuyuko Matsui held her first solo exhibition in 2004 at Ginza Surugadai Art Gallery in Tokyo, entitled: "L'espoir Fuyuko Matsui Exhibition." In 2011, she held an exhibition "Fuyuko Matsui: Becoming Friends with All the Children in the World" at Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan. The others include Hirano Museum, Shizuoka (2008), and Galerie DA-END, Paris (2010). She had four group exhibitions in 2006 in Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Yokohama Museum of Art in Kanagawa, Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, and the Sato Museum of Art in Tokyo. In 2009, her works were displayed in the group exhibition "Medicine and Art" in Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. In 2010, she participated in the "Koizumi Yakumo-The Secret of Lafcadio Hearn" group exhibition in Contemporary Art Museum in Kumamoto. In 2012, her works entered the group exhibition "Phantoms of Asia" in Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Books Bessatsu Taiyō, Matsui Fuyuko: Geijutsu Wa Kakusei Wo Yōkyū Suru. Publisher: Heibonsha. 2021 A Lock of Hair. Publisher: Matsuifuyuko Inc. 2019 The catalogue of Yokohama Museum of Art: Fuyuko Matsui-Becoming Friends with All the Children in the World, Edited by Kenichi Kawai, Marimo Hisaki, Sae Yatsunagi, Kyoko Sakamoto. Tokyo: Editions Treville. 2011 Matsui Fuyuko I & II. Publisher: Edition Treville. 2008 References External links 1974 births Living people 20th-century Japanese women artists 20th-century Japanese artists 21st-century Japanese women artists 21st-century Japanese artists Nihonga painters Artists from Shizuoka Prefecture Tokyo University of the