Matthew Brooks

Matthew Brooks is a Montreal-based artist originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He holds a B.F.A. in Photography and an M.F.A. in Studio Arts from Concordia University. He was named the 2017 recipient of the Lande Award in Photography and the 2018 recipient of the Roloff Beny Foundation Fellowship in Photography. In 2019 and 2020 he was longlisted for the Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award.

Aging architecture and material culture are frequent themes in his large-scale photographic work which explores ambiguous narratives and the veracity of the image. Within his hyperreal tableaus, the viewer’s sense of the real is destabilized, creating an uncanny sense of both reality and fiction. The construction of the photographic image is constantly at play in his works as he creates cinematic, anachronistic scenes which combine mundanity and artifice.

His work has been recently included in solo and group exhibitions at Birch Contemporary, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Occurrence, Centre Skol, Galerie B-312, and Galerie POPOP among others. In April 2017, he presented a new large-scale public artwork in New Westminster, BC for the Capture Photography Festival. His work has been published in print and online in publications such as...

2020: M.F.A., Studio Arts – Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)

2016: B.F.A., Photography (with Great Distinction) – Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)

2012: B.Mus., Performance – University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada)

PUBLIC ART

2017
350 Columbia Street, New Westminster, BC: The Telephone Salesman (Capture Photography Festival 2017)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018
Occurrence, Office Space (Les Inélucatables)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019
Birch Contemporary, Fast Forward

2018
Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen, IGNITION 14 curated by Michèle Theriault and Tammer El-sheikh

2017
Galerie B-312, Pour L'art

2016
FOFA Gallery / VAV Gallery, 2016 Graduating Students' Exhibition
Galerie POPOP, Tomorrow, curated by Marisa Portolese
Centre Skol, Voisins / Neighbours, curated by Stéphanie Chabot