Matsumoto has presented his work on multidisciplinary design, visual culture, and urbanism to the 5th symposium of the Imaginaries of the Future at Cornell University, the Espaciocenter workshop at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, New Media Frontier Lecture Series at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, iDMAa Conference 2017, Network Media Culture Symposium at CCA Kitakyushu, and NTT InterCommunication Center as a literary critic and media theorist. He curated the exhibition, Posthumanism, Epidigital, and Glitch Feminism at Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts in 2020.

As a composer, video producer, and graphic designer, he has worked with Peter Christopherson of Coil and Throbbing Gristle for Japanese Nike commercial and contributed to his album, Form Grows Rampant, and the early sessions of Amulet Edition.

Matsumoto has served as the MFA lecturer at Transart Institute, University of Plymouth. He works as a research associate and senior consultant for the New Centre of Research & Practice and the City of Dallas Office of Art and Culture respectively. Matsumoto is an honorary member of the British Art Network. He has been active as a guest critic on design reviews at Cornell University, Cooper Union, Columbia GSAPP, Rhode Island School of Design, and Pratt Institute.

Matsumoto is the recipient of Visual Art Open International Artist Award, Florence Biennale Mixed Media 2nd Place Award, The International Society of Experimental Artists Best of Show Gracie Award, Premio Ora Prize Italy 5th Edition, Premio Ora Prize Spain 1st Edition, Donkey Art Prize III Edition Finalist, Best of Show IGOA Toronto, Art Kudos Best of Show Award, FILE (Electronic Language International Festival) Media Art Finalist, Lynx International Prize Be Art Builder Award, Lumen Prize Finalist, and Western Bureau Art Prize Honorable Mention.
He was awarded the Gold Artist Prize from ArtAscent Journal, the 1st Place Prize from Exhibeo Art Magazine, and the Award of Excellence from the Creative Quarterly Journal of Art and Design in 2015 and 2016. His work is part of the permanent collection of the University of Texas at Tyler.

His work, writings, and interviews were published in Kalubrt Magazine, the University of North Carolina Wilmington Journal Palaver, Furtherfield.org, The Journal of Wild Culture, Studio Visit Magazine, Fresh Paint Magazine, H+ Magazine, International Artist Magazine, Made In Mind Magazine, Arizona State University Journal Superstition Review, Creative Review, Creative Boom. Next Nature Network, Rhizome.org, Monoskop, Carbon Culture Review, KooZA/rch, Supersonic Art, Post Digital Aesthetics (Berry and Dieter ed.), Drawing Discourse (University of North Carolina Asheville), Highlike (SEPI-SP editors), and Drawing Futures (The Bartlett UCL), among others.

Matsumoto’s multidisciplinary projects have been exhibited recently at Meadows Gallery University of Texas at Tyler, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery University of North Carolina Asheville, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, National Museum of Korea, CICA Museum, Van Der Plas Gallery, ArtHelix Gallery, Caelum Gallery, LAIR Gallery Lakehead University, Limner Gallery, the Cello Factory, University of the District of Columbia, Lux Art Gallery, Studio Montclair, Manifest Gallery, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Art Basel Miami, ISEA International, FILE Sao Paulo, Nook Gallery, and Arts and Heritage Centre Altrincham.

He had solo exhibitions at BYTE Gallery Transylvania University (2015), Los Angeles Center of Digital Art (2016), and Alviani ArtSpace, Pescara (2017).

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In his teenage years, he produced his first song which was played on a major radio station in the Netherlands on a show hosted by the famous DJ Giel Beleen.

A few years later, while he was attending classes for his bachelor’s degree in Statistics, he was noticed by the music executives of Universal Music Group who encouraged Andrea to keep creating beats.

A few years later while he was attending classes for his master’s degree courses in Statistics for Computer Science, he produced, alongside the Grammy award-winning reggae producer J-Vibe, half of the EP of the Miami-based Jamaican artist Sede Serena. The EP itself reached the 22nd position in the Billboard R&B/Hip hop Albums chart and number 2 in the Billboard Heatseeker South Atlantic Albums chart. Two years later he produced, for the same artist, the record “Swerve” featuring the dancehall’s King Elephant Man.

During those years, Andrea collaborated and worked with many songwriters. the co-writers behind hit songs like Cheers (Drink to That) and Man Down by Rihanna, Make Me by Janet Jackson, On The Floor by Jennifer Lopez, and others who are behind platinum albums of Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, Flo Rida, Madonna, Justin Bieber.

In 2018, the president of Seven Grand Entertainment (former management company of FloRida’s artist Natalie LaRose and Beyoncè’s “Freedom and Running”’s songwriter), Mr. David Miller, ex VP President International of Atlantic Records, was impressed by Andrea’s talent and decided to sign him immediately under his roster.

During the same year, Andrea worked with Awal and Kobalt for the distribution of the record “Never Give Up” by the independent singer/songwriter Queen Sessi who is better known, in Universal Music Latino, as Sèssi.

In 2019 Andrea moved to Milan and started to collaborate with the New York-based rapper Nyemiah Supreme,, known for being part of the reality show Sisterhood Hip Hop and for her collaboration with Timbaland, Jim Jonsin, and Dave East they released the single “Ready”.

In 2020 he worked with the famous Norwegian producer BPM (Fetty Wap, Nico & Vinz, Madcon) for the release of Queen Sessi’s single “Don’t call”.

In 2021 he produced his first ever song for an Italian artist, titled “Faithful” and performed by the emerging artist Rachele, which was distributed by the famous Italian Hip hop label Thaurus Music and Universal Music Italy. During the same year, Andrea collaborated with the Grammy Award-winning songwriter Jackie’s Boy, who penned hits for many artists such as Madonna, FloRida, Justin Bieber, Jay Sean, Sean Kingston, and more, for the creation of his single “Wear You Out”. Andrea also worked together with the UK engineer and producer Hypertone (Snakehips, Jacques, JLS) and the UK executive David Wade, for the project of Lloyd Wade, the legendary vocal coach of The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent. Andrea produced for him the song Higher which peaked at number 6 on the Music Week Dance Chart in the UK.

After a year of hiatus, in 2023 Andrea opened his label and publishing company: Panic Attack Music and he is now ready to release some of his own music.

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