Sample-Studios and Cork Midsummer Festival are delighted to announce that Riki Matsuda is the recipient of their joint Emerging Artist Award.
Riki Matsuda is a Japanese-Irish artist based in Cork. She received her BFA from CCAD in Ohio and relocated to Cork, Ireland in 2019. Her multidisciplinary practice centers around communication and how language serves and deserts us. Through installations and interactive work, Matsuda creates a space for unlearning by playing with misunderstandings, the limitations of language, the complexity of feeling, and the need for physical communication. Matsuda has taken part in Cork’s STAMP Festival as well as the Cavan Arts Festival, Culture Night 2023, Sample-Studios Members Summer Exhibition and was included in The Irish Contemporaries {ii} based in L.A.
She will receive a bursary, production and promotional supports to develop her work for Cork Midsummer Festival 2024. Watch this space for more information on her work coming in 2024.