Matt Saunders

Matt Saunders is an artist whose work spans painting, photography, printmaking, and moving-image. Born in Tacoma, Washington in 1975, he currently lives and works between Berlin, Germany and Cambridge, Massachusetts where he teaches at Harvard University. Saunders' artwork challenges the conventional boundaries of artistic media by using analog materials to explore the transience, mobility, and emotive power of images. He is best known for his haunting portraits and landscapes, drawn from various sources such as avant-garde cinema and found photographs.

Saunders earned a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard in 1997 and completed his MFA in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale University School of Art in 2000. His work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions worldwide, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Tate Liverpool, and Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He has also had solo exhibitions at the Renaissance Society of Chicago, the St. Louis Art Museum, and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University.

Saunders' artwork is held in the collections of major institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. He has received several prestigious awards, including the 2015 Rappaport Prize from the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the 2013 Prix Jean-François Prat, and the 2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award.