Welcome to the online site of Matthew Newton's art.


Matthew Newton’s art practice begins with figurative painting and takes form in several other media including video, photography, books, web projects, and live performance. His work, which often includes double or multiple portraits of women, traffics in topics such as observational habits, the technologies of representation, slippages from reality, and relations to ultimate authority. Matthew blends scientific observation and romantic involvement to produce nearly living sites for the interaction of consciousness.


Completing his MFA from Hunter College in Spring 2011, recently his work was shown at the Leubsdorf Gallery in New York, Parlour in New York, and at Crane Arts in Philadelphia. Matthew’s writing appears periodically on the Art:21 Blog. Matthew also contributed his curatorial efforts to an exhibition of Abraham Cruzvillegas at Hunter College.