An experienced and adept painter with works held in numerous international collections, Matsumoto hand-paints birds into artworks carefully crafted with a high level of detail. She is known for her unique hybrid process using both painting and collage that creates an innovative dialogue between the two mediums. Her Scandinavian and Northern European roots inform her light color palette and modern aesthetic.

Matsumoto has an international collector base, with works owned by accomplished collectors in Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and North America. Her work has been presented in solo shows at galleries in the U.S. and Hong Kong, as well as in group shows in New York City, Vancouver, Tokyo, and at the United States Embassy in Oman. She has also exhibited her work across the United States in over 70 group exhibitions. Honors include a 2021 grant by the New York Foundation of the Arts City Artist Corps and in 2019, she was an artist in residence at the prestigious MASS MoCA museum studio program in North Adams, MA. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design as a visiting painting student and as a summer semester student where she was the youngest art student ever to attend, and obtained her BA in Painting from Yale University.

Her unique perspective on Ornithology was inspired growing up around birds owned by her grandfather, a bird breeder during an era when harboring birds in cages was popular. She lives and works in a forest full of wildlife, in a house full of art, in the lower Hudson River Valley region of New York.