MATTHEW COLE

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MATTHEW COLE

 

Matthew Cole is an American painter who lives and works in New York City. In his Queens studio, Cole employs drawing, collage, and printmaking techniques, to then paint his psychologically-charged narratives.

 

In his paintings, the mystical and reality almost always coexist - the processes of layering and distorting are instrumental in conveying the distinct emotional tenor in the artist's work. In the studio, Cole fuses his own personal, as well as found imagery and art historical references to tell a story, composed of layers of figuration, landscape, and often using interior space as a framework for his subjects. Cole's images represent the fragmented nature of the perception of memories, dreams, the imagined, and the profound human

experience.

 
 
MATTHEW COLE (b. 1987, New Jersey, USA) currently lives and works in New York, USA. Cole graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, in 2010.
 
Solo Exhibitions include: Epoch, NBB Gallery, Berlin (2023), Alexander Rutsch Award Presentation, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY (2021); House Man, Galerie L’inlassable, Paris, France (2020), and Tokyo to Berlin, Silas von Morisse Gallery, New York, NY (2019).
 
Group Exhibitions include: Room Service, Hotel Ruth, Stockholm, Sweden (2021); Ten Years, Galerie L'inlassable, Paris, France (2021); Paperworks Vol. 1, NBB Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2021); PHOENIX, Galerie Rompone, Cologne, Germany (2021); Paintings in Paintings, M.O.N.T.E.V.E.R.I.T.A., Paris, France (2020).
 
Cole has received various awards/residencies, including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in Montreal (2022), the Alexander Rutsch Award for Painting (2021), and the Artist-in-Residence at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, AZ (2020). His large-scale mural, Children Have the Right to Music is now permanently displayed at the Rockefeller Group's Rose Hill building in New York City.