Takahiro Matsuo

Takahiro Matsuo is a Japanese light artist born in Fukuoka in 1979 and the founder of Lucent Design Inc., an art studio established in 2012 with an office in Ginza, Tokyo. Working under the concept LIGHT EMOTION, the studio combines moving image, lighting, sound and interaction to build environments that move between the digital and the physical.

Its output spans large public installations, museum and gallery exhibitions, shop windows and collaborations with luxury brands, including Prism Cloud, the quartz-glass work The Creation and K.L.V, the kinetic light piece made for the Kansai Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka. Matsuo also directs EMISSION, the studio’s art label, and took Entertainment Lighting Design of the Year at the LIT Lighting Design Awards 2024.