Megumi Matsubara
www.withassistant.net
Born in 1977.
Resides and works in Tokyo, Japan.
Megumi Matsubara is known as a founder of assistant - international & interdisciplinary design practice.
Assistant was established in 2002 together with Hiroi Ariyama and Motohiro Sunouchi, to explore an experimental approach to evolve their free and liberated creative philosophy.
She studied architecture at The University of Tokyo and later as a master student at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London under Peter Cook.
The previous spatial work has been shown at London Design Week 2006, Milan Furniture Fair 2007, DesignTide in Tokyo 2007.. The installations and other art projects have been exhibited previously at galleries and museums such as Galerie des Galeries, Galeries Lafayette (Paris), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo), Akiyoshidai International Art Village (Yamaguchi), Sendai Mediatheque (Sendai), CommandN (Tokyo).