Embracing the spirit of collaboration as a means to expand knowledge and skills, the breadth of techniques and references used across Matthew Lutz-Kinoy’s practice is the result of many collaborative ventures. Where his ceramics are influenced by working with artists in Europe and Brazil, his large-scale paintings often installed like backdrops, tapestries, wall panels, or suspended ceilings assert matters of pleasure, color, intimacy, motion as fundamental. Lutz-Kinoy’s work looks through a history of representation from the Rococo to Orientalism to Abstract Expressionism, challenging what constitutes the inside and the outside of the arts, the social, and the self.

At the core of Lutz-Kinoy’s practice is performance. Influenced by histories of queer and collaborative practice, as well as his background in theater and choreography, his live work explores the interplay of narratives that are created and constructed between individuals and social spaces.

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (b. 1984, New York, USA) lives and works in Paris.