About the artist

Matthew Choberka is a painter based in Ogden, Utah, who also serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual Art & Design at Weber State University. He received his BA from Colombia College in Illinois, studied painting and drawing at the New York Studio School, and received his MFA in painting from Indiana University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally with exhibitions at the Torrance Art Museum in California, galleryELL in Brooklyn, Governor’s Island Art Fair in New York Harbor, Raid Projects in Los Angeles, and Beaux-Arts des Ameriques in Montreal, Canada. His current studio practice encompasses oil and acrylic painting, as well as digital painting.

"To live in these times is in a lot of ways scary, and in all of my recent works I'm working to acknowledge that, and to overcome it. My painting addresses the instability and complexity of the contemporary world. The images are autonomous, whole on their own terms (I hope), but interrelated in an ongoing argument with myself about the know-ability of the other, and even of the self."

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