matthew constant

artist bio

Matthew Constant was born in Ames, Iowa in 1996 and attended Ames Senior High School. He received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University School of Art in 2018. Matthew has attended a residency at the Studios at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and shown work in the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Pullproof Studio and the CHART Gallery. He currently lives and works in Pittsburgh.

statement

I am an artist who values working in a wandering fashion. I make drawings and paintings habitually, in simple, short responses to myself and my surroundings, like how someone might journal. In this way my work is intended to capture and expand on daily, often fleeting and vague experience. Relying on a fixation on the commonplace and the fostering of idiosyncratic expression, I create pictures that recognize the multiplicity and intricacies in daily, ordinary awareness. I find I often end up drawing and painting the very normal things like birds, faces, trees, fears, buildings, flowers, and dreams.