Mateo Zachai

During my twenty five years of making art I have been focused on the interdisciplinary approach through painting, photography, video, and sculpture. My work is interdisciplinary both in thought, being influenced by one art form while working in another, and medium, bringing together different art forms. The consistent thread through my creative projects is a process that integrates different disciplines through deconstructing an image and reconstructing it in a different form. In much of my work, the process is tactile and meticulous: through cutting, hole punching, digitally cropping scanned negatives, and taking apart an image and taping it back together. Through this process, I strive to create work that presents a different narrative from how the original was captured. More of my work can be viewed on my website at .

Yale University, New Haven, CT, MFA, Photography, 1999
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, BFA, 1997

2023 Helzer Gallery, Faculty Show
2020 Helzer Gallery, Faculty Show
2019 Helzer Gallery, Faculty Show
2012 Artists Trust (Selected Work), Art Auction, Seattle, WA 2012 Shoreline Community College Faculty Show 2009-2010 2009 Rock/Dement Studio, Seattle, WA
2009 Artswest, Seattle, WA
2008 PCNW, Art Auction, Seattle, WA
2008 Blue Earth, Art Auction, Seattle, WA
2006 Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
2003 Martin/Zambito Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 Bellevue Arts Center, Bellevue, WA
1999 Thesis Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1998 Second Year Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1997 First Year Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1997 SFAI, Spring Show, San Francisco, CA
1996 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Stillights Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 SFAI, Spring Show, San Francisco, CA

AWARDS
1997 First Place Award (Photography), Paul Sack Collection
1996 Honorable Mention (Photography), San Francisco Art Institute 1996 Nominated to apply, Yale summer program
1996 Semi-finalist, Skowhegan summer program
1995 Honorable mention, building contest, San Francisco Art Institute 1993 Sobel scholarship for Sculpture (one of three)

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Artweek, Ma...