Matthew Angelo Harrison

Matthew Angelo Harrison (b. 1989, Detroit, MI) creates otherworldly sculptures that are in conversation with anthropology, science fiction and industrial design. His work combines found objects made from organic materials such as wooden sculptures from West Africa with synthetic materials like acrylic resin, which he then molds and sculpts with state-of-the-art machinery. The resulting forms investigate the subtle politics of mass production, authenticity, metamorphosis, and what the artist calls "abstract ancestries."

Harrison has exhibited widely in solo shows in the following public institutions: Broad Art Museum (East Lansing, MI); Atlanta Contemporary; and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). His work is in many permanent collections, including but not limited to: de Young Museum, San Francisco; Detroit Institute of Arts; Galeries Lafayette Foundation, Paris; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In June 2021, Harrison opened his first European solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel, and in March 2022, will open a solo exhibition at MIT List Visual Arts Center.

The first monograph of Harrison’s work will be published by The MIT Press in 2021.

Harrison has been awarded grants and fellowships by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), United States Artists, and Kresge Arts. Harrison completed his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. Harrison lives and works in Detroit, MI. Harrison is represented by Jessica Silverman.