Matt Connors

b. 1973

Matt Connors is a painter, poet, writer and publisher. He was born in Chicago and currently lives and works across New York and Los Angeles. Connors studied Fine Art at Bennington College before completing his MFA at Yale University School of Art in 2006. In 2012, Connors published the award-winning book A Bell is a Cup.

Connors creates abstract paintings, drawings, and sculptures that intuitively balance colour and form. His work draws upon art history, particularly minimalism and abstraction. References in his work span the fields of photography, design, architecture, music, writing, Modernist painting and poetry. His work is housed in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Dallas Museum of Art and the San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas.

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