Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold is an American landscape photographer whose work strives to connect the specificity and significance of history with the topography of the land on which the history is shaped.

His work has been exhibited and promoted widely across the United States and around the world in galleries and museums. His previous project was published in 2014 as a monograph entitled, Topography Is Fate—North African Battlefields of World War II, by the German publisher, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg. It includes a foreword written by Hilary Roberts, the Research Curator of Photography at the Imperial War Museums in Britain, along with an essay by Natalie Zelt, the co-author and co-curator of
War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath.

Arnold was recently named a 2020 Critical Mass Top 50 Photographer by Photolucida. In 2021 Arnold will have his first major solo exhibition of his Amelia Earhart project at the Turchin Center for the Arts at Appalachian State University. This past summer he was asked to jury the Earth Photo Prize for the Royal Geographical Society in London. In 2019 he had his second solo exhibition at Happy Lucky No.1 Gallery in New York City for a parallel project entitled Ghosts and the Longing for ...

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Course of Study; Graphic Design, Offset Lithography, Photography

West Surrey College of Art and Design, England
Course of Study: Photography

| Selected Solo Exhibitions |

|2021| Longing for Amelia—The Historical and Mythological Landscape,
Turchin Center for the Arts, Appalachian State University

|2019| Ghosts and the Longing, HappyLucky No. 1 GALLERY, New York, NY

|2018| Topography Is Fate, Gravy GALLERY, Philadelphia, PA

|2018| Ghosts and the longing, HappyLucky No. 1 GALLERY, New York, NY

|2015| Topography Is Fate, HappyLucky No. 1 GALLERY, New York, NY

|2015| Topography Is Fate, Metropolitan Gallery, Philadelphia, PA


| Publications | Monograph

|2014| Topography is Fate—North African Battlefields of World War II
Foreword: Hilary Roberts, Head Curator of the Photograph Archive, Imperial War Museum, London
Essay: Natalie Zelt, Assistant Curator, Photography: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Co-author and Co-curator: War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany


| Recent Selected Group Exhibitions |

|2019| FORMAT Festival 19, Derby, England
Recipient of the Genesis and Fuji Award
Project: Topography Is Fate—North African Battlefields of World War II

|2018| Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
Project: Topography Is Fate—North African Battlefields of World Wa...