Born in Hiroshima in 1981. Graduated from Tokyo Polytechnic University in 2006 with a masters in Media Art. Masumoto has been energetically exhibiting works in individual and group exhibitions around the Tokyo area since 2004. In 2007, he spent a year as resident artist at Maumaus in Portugal, expanding his artistic activities across Europe.
 The current project The World is also the title of Masumoto’s most recent major series of works. Simply stated, in these works Masumoto gives individuals recipes in languages they do not understand, and records them in the kitchen as they try to follow the instructions. By focusing on the behavior of individuals faced with incomprehensibility, he reveals people’s sense of humor, their vulnerabilities, and the social factors underlying both of these.

In the activity of cooking food that is the product of another culture, the possibility and impossibility of transcultural understanding becomes visible in the very gestures of the participants.

In noting how the state of the contemporary world is reflected in the structure of the participants’ speech and movements, viewers also encounter the process of understanding - somehow or another - of a culture other than one’s own.