ANDY MATTERN is a visual artist working at the intersection of photography and conceptual art, challenging the medium’s fundamental conventions. Through his photographs and installations, he deconstructs and reconfigures the essential elements of photographic representation, questioning its material and perceptual boundaries.

Mattern’s work is included in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Southeast Museum of Photography, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. His exhibitions and photographs have been featured in publications such as Artforum, The New Yorker, Camera Austria, and Photonews.

His projects have received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition and have been recognized in juried competitions like Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 50. He has participated in artist residencies at the Doel Reed Center in Taos, New Mexico, and Halsnøy Kloster in Norway.

In 2021, Aint-Bad Press published his first monograph, Average Subject / Medium Distance. Mattern is an Associate Professor of Photography at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. He holds an MFA in Photography from the University of Minnesota and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of New Mexico.

More of Andy’s work may be explored on his website and IG Account.