MAT COLLISHAW

— MATT COLLISHAW

Mat Collishaw is one of the most important artists in the history of modern British art, whose name is inextricably linked with the Young British Artists ( YBA ) movement. A fellow student of Damien Hirst at Goldsmiths College, Collishaw was one of 16 young artists who participated in Hirst’s legendary Freeze exhibition in 1988.

Over 30 years of successful career, Collishaw has become a symbol of conceptual art and a master of visual expressions. Each of his projects is a new bright event in the art scene, gathering thousands of spectators in museums and galleries around the world.

Exploring the nature of the human subconscious and how to influence it through various media, Collishaw creates his unique works—optical illusions, paintings, projections and moving sculptures - that catch the eye of the viewer and make you think about the fundamental issues of psychology, history and science. Behind the brightness and visual appeal of each work lies a deep study of how we perceive the world today through visual images, and how modern technologies change our attitude, manipulating consciousness and programming our actions.

‘I TRY TO FIND OUT WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENS WHEN WE CREATE AN IMAGE, A SIMULACRUM OF THE WORLD, AND HOW MUCH IT SEPARATES US FROM THE REAL WORLD ... AND IN THIS I DRAW ON MANY DIFFERENT FIELDS: FROM EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, WHICH INTERESTS ME SO MUCH, TO ART HISTORY AND DEVELOPING TECHNOLOGIES.’

— MATT COLLISHAW

Mat Collishaw’s work has been featured in such museums and public collections as: Tate Modern (London, UK), Somerset House (London, UK), Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (Birmingham, UK), Borghese Gallery (Rome, Italy), Freud Museum (London, UK), National Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna (Bologna, Italy), Museum of Modern Art in Paris (Paris, France), Brooklyn Museum (New York, USA)), Museum of Rome (Rome, Italy), National Art Museum of Catalonia (Barcelona, ​​Spain), Arter Foundation (Istanbul, Turkey), British Council Collection (London, UK), Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture (Paris, France), Civica Gallery of Contemporary Art (Turin, Italy), San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego, USA ), Museum of Old and New Art - MONA (Hobart, Tasmania, Australia), Olbricht Collection (Berlin, Germany), State Hermitage Museum (Saint-Petersburg, Russia).