Shinya Masuda
Born 1965 in Nagoya City, Japan. Currently live in Tokyo.
A French cuisine chef turned photographer.
After graduating from Nagano Art and Design School, majoring in Visual Communication Design, Masuda worked as a commercial photographer at the photography department of a design production company. He then met Mr. HASHI, the Action Still Life photographer in New York, and studied under him for a year and half at HASHI STUDIO TOKYO.
Masuda now works as an artist.
Elegant beauty of form and freewheeling ideas in Masuda’s work is highly praised and acclaimed in many countries such as London, Paris, Athens, US, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Israel. He is working actively and having solo exhibitions mainly in the US.
“All things must pass” is a phrase Shinya Masuda learned from his grandmother as he was a child. That phrase triggered, and inspired, him to start making images that use rotten food and organic matter as important motives. Masuda’s work bridges the visible physical world and invisible spiritual world.
