Education
In 1949, he graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts with a degree in painting.
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In 1949, he graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts with a degree in painting.
Kayama Matazo was a painter who employed a mixed technique. Around 1960 he traveled, gave exhibitions, and held conferences abroad. Starting in 1950, he participated in expositions of The Association of Young Artists (Shinseisaku gakai), wherein he was awarded four times.
From 1958 on, he participated in international expositions of modern Japanese artists.
In 1967, he also participated in the exhibition Masterpieces of Modern Japanese Painting at the State Hermitage Museum of Saint St. Petersburg and at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. In 1957, he was granted the Young Painters Prize in the Asahi News.
He became a professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 1988. In 1950, he began to incorporate discrete elements of cubism, as well as elements of Italian futurism in his series of paintings focused on birds and other animals.
In 1964, he conceived a ceramic mural for the Taiseki-ji Temple of Fujinomiya.
Towards the end of the 1970s, several state organizations commissioned him to make mural decorations, including the Japanese Embassy in the United States.