Matthew Carver

Matthew Carver

Office: ECH 1202
Department of Fine Arts
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

Tel.: 519.888.4567, ext. 42298
Email: mswcarver@uwaterloo.ca

Matthew Carver received his Masters with ‘Distinction’ from The Chelsea College of Art at the University of the Arts, London. He is the recipient of the RBC Painting Award and grants from both the Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council. He has had solo exhibitions in Berlin, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and in his home country of Canada at Museum London and various commercial galleries such as the Christopher Cutts Gallery that represents him in Toronto. He has participated in many prestigious international group exhibitions from London, to Berlin, Dubai and throughout Asia. These include the 12th Cairo Biennale in Egypt, Multi Layered Surfaces at the Prince Takamado Gallery within The Embassy of Canada and Nihonbashi Institute of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan, In/Out Source – Nei Xiao/Wei bao at the Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts in China, Anticipation,curated byKay Saatchi, Catriona Warren and Flora Fairbairn in London, and Museum Presents: The New Empire (curated by Victoria Lu of the Shanghai MoCA) at Scope Basel.

He has written about contemporary art in China and the Philippines and the work of artists such as the Chapman Brothers, William Kentridge, Lee Mingwei and Garry Neill Kennedy for MOMUS, Canadian Art and Border Crossings magazine. His own work has been featured in Asian Art News, Canadian Art, the Globe and Mail, Border Crossings and other publications. His work is in many notable international collections.


View the artist's website at http://www.matthewcarver.net/.

Painting of a street in Hong Kong at night with car traffic and brightly lit signs, all with a slight motion blur.

Mongkok, 200 x 300 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2016

View of an art gallery with an exhibition of paintings. The painting directly in front show a Hong Kong street scene at night.

Installation view, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, 2019.

Portrait of a woman in three-quarter view painted in dots of purple and green.

Neon Sprite, 61 x 76 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2018.

Painting of police vehicles and a group of police officers in riot gear on a street corner with anamorphic distortion.

Eviction Day in Friedrichshain, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 300 cm, 2011.

A man stands in front of two paintings each depicting a line of police in riot gear with anamorphic distortion.

Installation view, 12th Cairo Biennale, Egypt, 2010.

Motion blur showning multiple people, several of them wearing head scarves, moving in front of two paintings each depicting a line of police in riot gear with anamorphic distortion.

Installation view, 12th Cairo Biennale, Egypt, 2010.

Painting of the entrance to the Forbidden City with tourists, kiosks and a police van. The painting shows multiple views, pieced together with anamorphic distortion.

Shape Shifting At The Entrance To The Forbidden City, acrylic on canvas, 215 x 355 cm, 2010.

View of an art gallery with a person viewing the exhibition of paintings. The two paintings on the right are large colourful street scenes with a blur of street signs at night; the painting on the left shows a line of police in riot gear with anamorphic distortion.

Installation view, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, 2009.

Artist on a step ladder at work in a studio on two, predominantly red and white, paintings of neon street signs at night viewed with a slight motion blur.

Taksu Artist Residency, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2006, 2007 & 2009.

Painting of a street in Hong Kong at night with car traffic and brightly lit signs, all with a slight motion blur.
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Mongkok, 200 x 300 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2016
View of an art gallery with an exhibition of paintings. The painting directly in front show a Hong Kong street scene at night.
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Installation view, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, 2019.
Portrait of a woman in three-quarter view painted in dots of purple and green.
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Neon Sprite, 61 x 76 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2018.
Painting of police vehicles and a group of police officers in riot gear on a street corner with anamorphic distortion.
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Eviction Day in Friedrichshain, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 300 cm, 2011.
A man stands in front of two paintings each depicting a line of police in riot gear with anamorphic distortion.
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Installation view, 12th Cairo Biennale, Egypt, 2010.
Motion blur showning multiple people, several of them wearing head scarves, moving in front of two paintings each depicting a line of police in riot gear with anamorphic distortion.
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Installation view, 12th Cairo Biennale, Egypt, 2010.
Painting of the entrance to the Forbidden City with tourists, kiosks and a police van. The painting shows multiple views, pieced together with anamorphic distortion.
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Shape Shifting At The Entrance To The Forbidden City, acrylic on canvas, 215 x 355 cm, 2010.
View of an art gallery with a person viewing the exhibition of paintings. The two paintings on the right are large colourful street scenes with a blur of street signs at night; the painting on the left shows a line of police in riot gear with anamorphic distortion.
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Installation view, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, 2009.
Artist on a step ladder at work in a studio on two, predominantly red and white, paintings of neon street signs at night viewed with a slight motion blur.
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Taksu Artist Residency, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2006, 2007 & 2009.