Shinon Matsumoto & Morisakorisa duo show "The Garden of the Moon's whisper"
shimokitazawaartsSeptember 19 - 28, 2025
1-7 pm
Closed on Sep. 22
*opening reception： September 19, 5-7pm
*Anyone can participate in the reception.
An art festival, Moon Art Night Shimokitazawa, will be held in Shimokitazawa from September 19 to October 5, 2025. Be sure to enjoy it as well!
On a night when the veil of moonlight embraces the garden.
We exchange secret words and weave the silence.
The music of the night spins a world unknown to anyone.
Shadows dance beneath the moonlight.
Guided by memory, flowers bloom in radiant glory.
When the full moon begins to drip,
Its drops quietly wet the garden, becoming dewdrops.
Fleeting memories and eternal longing.
Shinon Matsumoto
Originally from Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, currently 21 years old and a graduate of Bunka Fashion College, Tokyo.
Creates paintings using coffee dyeing techniques.
Her work is rooted in both fashion and art.
The varying shades of coffee dropped onto the canvas
cause the girl—painted in vivid colors and delicate textures—to gaze off into the distance.
Blurring the boundaries between girlhood and maturity, dream and reality,
the work draws the viewer into a bittersweet sense of nostalgia.
After graduating from Bunka Fashion College, she began her career as both a designer for the fashion brand "Shinon Matsumoto" and as a painter.
Coffee Beans Used
This work utilizes a technique called coffee dyeing.
The paintings are created using coffee beans that were originally destined to be discarded.
These beans come from Koishi Coffee, a coffee shop located in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan.
The coffee was generously provided by Koishi Coffee and had been used in the shop's early experimental roasting phase—before its official opening—as they worked to understand the characteristics of a new roasting machine. These bs played a crucial role in developing the foundation of the coffee they now serve.
At one point, they were facing the challenge of having a large volume of unused beans to dispose of. Through painting, those once-discarded beans have been given a new life.
Awards
Grand Prize, 17th Atsuro Tayama Award High School Fashion Illustration Contest, Japan
Special Prize, "Search for the Da Vinci of the Century" High School Art Competition 2020, Japan
Selected for Exhibition, Card Award Exhibition 2020, Japan
Gold Prize, Osaka Seikei Art & Design Competition, Japan
Special Prize, 18th Atsuro Tayama Award High School Fashion Illustration Contest, Japan
Runner-Up (Second Grand Prize), Osaka Bunka Fashion College Fashion Contest 2021, Japan
Grand Prize, 6th Hoshino Coffee Painting Contest, Japan
Bunka Publishing Bureau Award & Excellence Award, Fashion Illustration Exhibition 2022, Japan
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award, National Fashion School Fashion Illustration Contest, Japan
Grand Prize, Fashion Illustration Exhibition 2023, Japan
Special Award, ART SHOPPING PARIS 2024 at Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
Morisakorisa
Born in Tokyo in 2003.
Currently enrolled at Tama Art University, Tokyo.
Based in Tokyo, she creates works under the theme of parallel worlds.
Her characters possess two identities—one in reality, and one in a parallel world.
Blending real-life experiences with imagination, she constructs scenes that project real people onto these characters, unfolding stories through her artistic practice.
Exhibition
2021
All Japan Student Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
World Painting Grand Prize Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
6th Hoshino Coffee Shop Painting Contest, Hoshino Coffee Shop, Japan
GAKUTEN (Student Art Exhibition), The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Group Exhibition “Zombies in Paintings”, Gallery Space Kurage, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gakkan Funabashi High School Graduation Exhibition, Funabashi Civic Gallery, Japan
FACE 2022, SOMPO Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
57th Showakai Exhibition, NICHIDO Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition - ECHO - blanc gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition Insight II 2022, GALLERY AND LINKS, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition Roots – A Place to Belong, gallery re:tail, Tokyo, Japan
WHAT CAFE × WHYNOT. TOKYO EXHIBITION, Tokyo, Japan
GINZA COLLECTOR’s CLUB, Ginza Tsutaya Books, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo-do Bookstore, Tokyo, Japan
Solo Exhibition "A Prank by the Moon", Daikanyama Hillside Terrace, Building E Salon, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition “∴”, Tama Art University Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition "Everyone Loves You.", Space Kurage, Tokyo, Japan
2023
Solo Exhibition "Tales from the Garden", Space Kurage, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition "Art Students STARS", +ART GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition "People", Changting gallery, Tokyo, Japan
WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION vol.28, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition "CHANGTING GALLERY 3RD EXHIBITION", Changting gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition "I IS ANOTHER", TOKYO CHUO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition "CHANGTING GALLERY EXHIBITION 2023",Changting gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Solo Exhibition "Mood Indigo", Shimokitazawa Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2024
Group Exhibition "Expression Vol.3", Changting gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition "Wonderland", Shimokitazawa Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition "ART ART KOBE - ArtSticker SELECTION", Daimaru Kobe Store, Japan
Group Exhibition "Dalston Group Exhibition - Part 6", Gallery Dalston, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition "Quintet – Five-Part Harmony", Empathy Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition "WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION vol.37: Canvas of a Narrative", Tokyo, Japan
Two-Person Exhibition "Bush Bush" with Iyama Kei, Shimokitazawa Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2025
Group Exhibition "WAVE 2025 BLUE", LURF GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Solo Exhibition "If You Drop the Needle on a Dream That Won’t Wake", MEDEL GALLERY SHU, Tokyo, Japan
Award
2020
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award, Environmental Education Poster Contest, Japan
2021
Runner-Up (Second Grand Prize), 6th Hoshino Coffee Painting Contest, Japan
Selected for Exhibition, World Painting Grand Prize Exhibition, Japan
Excellence Award, GAKUTEN (Student Art Exhibition), The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Selected for Exhibition, FACE 2022, SOMPO Museum of Art, Japan
Selected for Exhibition, 57th Showakai Exhibition, NICHIDO Gallery, Japan
