Matthew Cronin lives and works between Philadelphia and New York City. He holds an MFA in Studio Art from University of Texas at Austin as well as a BFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Cronin’s process makes use of preexisting photographs which he reimagines through montage, multiple exposure, and alternate methods of scanning. 

His work has been exhibited internationally at galleries and museums including The Visual Arts Center, Austin; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Back Gallery Project, Vancouver, Lydian Stater, New York; and at the Singapore International Photography Festival. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as Der Greif; A New Nothing Vol. 1; Fotomen China; and Humble Arts Foundation. He has participated in residency programs at the NARS Foundation and Wassaic Project. Cronin’s work can be found in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s permanent collection and in the archives at the Center for Creative Photography.

EDUCATION

2019 MFA Studio Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
2013 BFA in Photography, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023
Order of Operations, Lydian Stater, Queens, NY

2022
In Good Company, Lydian Stater, Queens, NY
Dwelling, Singapore International Photography Festival
Future Known as Unpredicted, Singapore
Reimagined, Wallace Gallery, Old Westbury, NY
The Big Camera Show, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

2021
TLPS, Lydian Stater, Long Island City, NY
Hush, Curated by Eva Mayhabal Davis, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Revelations II: Recent Photography Acquisitions, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA

2020
To Assemble, Curated by Elisa Gutierrez, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Source Matters, Curated by Elisa Gutierrez, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

2019
The Qualities of LIGHT Exhibition Flat File Drawers, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson,AZ
Untitled (Open Space), Curated by Leslie Moody Castro, ICOSA, Austin, Tx
Currents 2019: Reimagined Histories | Rewritten Futures, Curated by Jon Feinstein (Humble Arts Foundation), Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Hero Ready, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
Cold Season, Curated by Joseph Richie, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA

2017
21st Annual Exhibition, Curated by Sandra Phillips, (Curator Emeritus, San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art), Photographic Center NW, Seattle, WA
Context 2017, Juried by Natasha Egan (Executive Director of the Museum of
Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago), Filter Space,
Chicago, IL

2015
All Visual Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

RESIDENCIES & AWARDS

2022 Wassaic Project Summer Residency, Wassaic, NY
2021 Studio Relief Program, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2020 International Residency Program, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Roy Crane Award in Visual Art; The University of Texas at Austin
2018 William and Bettye Nowlin Endowed Presidential Fellowship in Photography, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
2018 Russell Lee Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Photography, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
2017 Russell Lee Scholarship in Photography, University of Texas at Austin, Austin,
Texas
2017 Russell Lee Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Photography, University of Texas at
Austin, Austin, Texas
2015 Dave Bown Projects Competition, Shortlist

COLLECTIONS

Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA

PRESS/INTERVIEWS

Silver Eye Center for Photography, 2022

The Emerging Artists Collective, 2022

Humble Arts Foundation, 2020

Arranging Tangerines Episode 25 - A Conversation with Matthew Cronin

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