Bio
Matthew Parker is a disabled interdisciplinary artist whose work explores multiples, landscapes, and disability within different disciplinary traditions. Parker's work has been shown at the 9th Ave Gallery [Seattle], Cabal Gallery [Denver], Centennial Lab [Seattle], and Cornish College's President's Gallery [Seattle]. Parker earned a BFA in Visual Art from Cornish College of the Arts, and resides in Seattle. In his free time he enjoys rocks, computers, and quiet.
Exhibitions
2024 Summer Show, Coffin Farm, Redmond
2024 Quarry Work, Unit 1A47, Seattle
2024 Erratics, Specialist, Seattle
2023 Summer Show, Coffin Farm, Redmond
2023 Cheek and Hole, Specialist, Seattle
2023 Fortitude, Slip Gallery, Seattle
2022 Yard Work, Shed, Seattle
2022 BFA Alumni Show, Alumni Gallery Cornish, Seattle
2022 Portraits and Landscapes
Fred Hutchinson Research Center, Seattle
2022 Thesis Exhibition” 9th Ave Gallery, Seattle
2021 DIY, 9th Ave Gallery, Seattle
2019 Print Show, Centennial Labs, Seattle
2018 Likeness, Art Lab, Fort Collins
2017 Robots, Cabal, Denver
2015 Open Studio Show, Good Thieves Press, Denver
Professional Experience
2023 Member: Specialist Gallery
2023 Studio Assistant: Laura Hart Newlon,
Responsibilities: Fabrication, Documentation,
Website design & management, CAD
2021-2022 Photography Lab Assistant, Cornish College of the Arts,
Responsibilities: Studio Management, Student demonstrations,
1:1 Student teaching, Printer management
Publications/Lectures
2022 Artist Talk Cornish College of the Arts
2022 Cornish BFA 2022 Booklet
2021 Platforms of Exchange Booklet
2019 Salann Magazine 3rd ed. “Trash Collage”
Service/Awards
2020 Kindler and Johnson Visual Art Scholarship
2019 Richard Gilman Scholarship, Painting & Fine Arts
2017 Americorps Alumnus
2008 Outward Bound Alumnus