Matthew Griffin

Fine Arts, Sydney is presenting a new exhibition of work by Matthew Griffin.

Since 2015, Matthew Griffin has been making short videos with edited new and found footage, sharing them on social media under the username contemporaryary. These sixty-eight short videos are collected together as a single work. No longer available on the internet, the videos comprising the work are presented in person on a smartphone.

Matthew Griffin lives and works in Sydney. He was born in 1976 in Bendigo, Australia, and completed BFA at Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, in 1998. His work has been included in exhibitions at Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2017, 2014, 2013, 2004); Artspace, Sydney (2013); Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2013, 2009); Hayward Gallery, London (2008); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2006). This is Griffin’s first solo exhibition in Sydney.