I am so very happy Stephen Frailey included my work this week in his very excellent Substack DAVE, OF THE WEEK. My work is published as part of DEAR DAVE, REDUX, a review of portfolios previously published in Stephen’s beautiful magazine, DEAR DAVE,. https://daveoftheweek.substack.com/i/220758739/dear-dave-redux MATTHEW SWARTS + DEAR DAVE, REDUX OCTOBER 2026
For the first time ever I will be showing new video work in FOUND DRAWING with Luis Arnias, Joshua Hart, and Jeff Stratford at the Brant Gallery of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Foundation Department, up from September 28 until October 15, 2026. Special thanks to Helen Miller for believing in my work…
THE ALTERNATIVES I am beyond thrilled to be a part of the PhotoAnthology Foundation’s work and website. Many kind thanks to Valery Poshtarov for making this encyclopedia article possible. https://photoanthology.org/…/the-alternatives-matthew…The Alternatives, begun in 2014 by American photographer Matthew Swarts, transforms intimate photographs of a new partner into layered digital composites examining perception, intimacy, and screen…
It is delightful to see BRANCHES featured on LANDSCAPE STORIES’ social media feeds today. Very happy to share this work about Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts, made primarily with my iPhone and digitally recomposed. Sincere thanks to Gianpaolo Arena for making this possible.
Delighted and very grateful my project BRANCHES is featured on artmusexpress.com Matthew Swarts, a visionary in the realm of photography and digital imaging, has an intriguing approach to his art. “I use computers to question some of the things I make with cameras,” he states, challenging traditional notions of photography. Swarts believes in photography’s power…
MATTHEW SWARTS + THEARTWORLDPOST.COM 2024 With special thanks to Ann Williams, I am delighted to be a part of the survey of working contemporary artists on theartworldpost.com: Matthew Swarts is an artist who challenges the conventional boundaries of photography through his unique integration of digital technology. Living and working in Somerville, Massachusetts, Swarts’s approach…
BRANCHES (Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts, 2021-2023). Inquiries with trees. When the woodcutter enters the forest the trees all murmur the handle of the axe is one of us. — Aesop I live in Somerville, Massachusetts, one of the most densely populated urban areas in New England. Most days during the pandemic I have calmed…
I feel very fortunate to have my work published in the Institute of Network Culture’s PRTSCN: THE LAZY ART OF SCREENSHOT (2022) INC Zine #4 PRTSCN: THE LAZY ART OF SCREENSHOT Edited by Dunja Nešović The zine PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot gathered more than 30 authors in an aim to collectively explore the…
MATTHEW SWARTS + DEAR DAVE, (ISSUE 28) “Matthew Swarts has engaged in the neurology of networked computing and photography, warping information and idling in digitized distortions and chromatic discord,” writes Stephen Frailey (EDITOR, DEAR DAVE,). “The work reveals a romanticism that seems atypical for an involvement with technology. The photographs are a lattice of powdery…
I am delighted the jury of the 2018 Photographic Museum of Humanity Grant (composed of Roger Ballen, Genevieve Fussell, Emilia Van Lynden, and Monica Allende) shortlisted The Alternatives! Best wishes to all competitors and sincerest thanks for the honor and earnest consideration by the jury. THE ALTERNATIVES
I am completely honored to announce that the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York has acquired two prints from The Alternatives for the museum’s permanent collection. The museum purchased Untitled, 2015, and Untitled, 2016 (pictured below). Special thanks to Lisa Hostetler, Curator-In-Charge, who organized A Matter of Memory, the exhibition which featured these works,…
Completely thrilled that “Carnations, 2017” will be on view at Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles’ booth at AIPAD’s “The Photography Show” at Pier 94 in New York, New York from March 30th till April 2nd 2017! My most sincere thanks to Paul Kopeikin and Kaycee Olsen for organizing this exhibition of my work.
Super excited to share some preliminary images from my new book project, The Alternatives (2017). Special thanks to Katherine Oktober Matthews of GUP Magazine (The Netherlands), who nominated this project for consideration for MACK’s First Book Award in London, UK! The Alternatives (2017), Hardcover Dummy (In Progress!)
I am deeply honored to have work from both BETH and The Alternatives in “The Relationship Show” at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center (Denver)! Special thanks to Patti Hallock and Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles for making this exciting exhibition happen! From the exhibition catalog: MAUREEN DRENNAN • LAURA BETH REESE • MATTHEW SWARTS • ALLISON…
So honored to be in this exhibition honoring Paul Kopeikin’s tireless 25th years of being a gallerist in Los Angeles! Exhibition on view November 5th with special hours 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM Panel Discussion and Reception on November 19th 2:00 PM Panel Discussion “Photography’s Place in a Contemporary Collection” with guest speakers Tarrah von Lintel, Carol Lee Brosseau, Paul…
“A Matter of Memory – Photography as Object in the Digital Age” opens October 22, 2016 at the Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. https://eastman.org/matter-memory-photography-object-digital-age Artists featured in this exhibition include Thomas Barrow, Mladen Bizumic, Matthew Brandt, Marco Breuer, Antony Cairns, Ellen Carey, Phil Chang, John Chiara, Adam Fuss, Bryan Graf, Robert Heinecken, Leslie Hewitt, Kenneth…
It is an honor and a great pleasure to have work from The Alternatives featured in Fraction Magazine’s Issue 89 with an interesting group including work by fellow artists Amy Friend, Puspa Lohmeyer, and Kourtney Roy. My sincere thanks to Assistant Editor Bree Lamb and Editor David Bram!
Delighted to among such amazing company in Der Greif: A Process 2.0: DER GREIF has been invited by Lars Willumeit, curator of the Krakow Photomonth 2016 Main Program – »Crisis? What Crisis?!« – to perform A Process 2.0 during the opening weekend at the festival centre. A Process 2.0 questions photography in its digital form as a distinct medium,…
Delighted and very honored to be a part of Lesley A. Martin’s curatorial selection on Der Greif’s Guest-Room!
My most sincere thanks to Lisa Hostetler, Curator-in-charge, Department of Photography, at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, for including five pieces from The Alternatives in her upcoming exhibition “A Matter of Memory”. (October 22, 2016–January 29, 2017, in the Museum’s Main Galleries). I will look forward to posting more about this exhibition as the date…
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I am truly delighted to announce my participation in Kopeikin Gallery’s installation at Pulse Miami Beach in conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach 2015. With kindest thanks to Paul Kopeikin, whose steadfast belief in my work this past year has been truly transformative and nurturing. 12/1-12/5 2015 Indian Beach Park 4601 Collins Avenue Miami Beach, Florida…
Super proud to be a part of SLIDELUCK GLOBAL’s production in Bydgoszcz, Poland! Many sincere thanks to Dasha Shapovalova!
So proud and honored to have work going up as part of Kopeikin Gallery’s installation at UNSEEN PHOTO FAIR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 18th-20th 2015. Sincere and sustained thanks to Paul Kopeikin!
Delighted to have work from both BETH and The Alternatives on view at Kopeikin Gallery’s installation at the Seattle Art Fair! Special thanks to Paul Kopeikin, for tirelessly and steadily championing my work!
Thrilled and honored to have been included in Maria Teresa Salvati’s Multimedia Presentation as part of SLIDELUCK GLOBAL’s participation in the TRIENNIAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY HAMBURG. Featuring artists: Amy Elkins, Andi Schreiber, Boris Eldagsen, Dougie Wallace, Jean-marc Caimi & Valentina Piccinni, Kirsty Mackay, Marcela Magno, Marika Dee, Matthew Swarts, Paula Teller, Rafael Arocha, Spike Johnson. June…
Very excited to announce the publication of my work in GUP Magazine #45 Evolution out of The Netherlands. Special and sincere thanks to Katherine October Matthews for discovering my work and publishing this portfolio and interview! From the supporting text for GUP #45/EVOLUTION: “Change alone is unchanging,” spoke the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus. And so it…
So elated to announce my participation in NEW GIFTS, The Creative Technologies Exhibition at Macy Gallery, part of the Art and Education Program at Columbia University, Teacher’s College. 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027. June 1 – 26, 2015. Opening reception June 19, 5-7pm. From the exhibition announcement: “NEW GIFTS’ is an exhibition showcasing…
Special thanks to Rasmus Vasli for discovering and graciously publishing my work this morning on Sweden’s Floret magazine. It is a wonderful honor to have the opportunity to bring Scandinavian audiences to my work! http://floret.se/matthew-swarts-beth/
It is an incredible honor (and a delight!) to be featured on Lenscratch today! My sincere and special thanks to the ever-incredible Aline Smithson! http://lenscratch.com/2015/04/matthew-swarts-beth-and-the-alternatives/ “Matthew Swarts has a current exhibition at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles that runs through April 18th featuring two projects, Beth and Alternatives. With both projects, Matthew reconsiders photographic…
I am completely thrilled to announce my participation in Kopeikin Gallery’s installation at the 2015 AIPAD Photography Show at The Park Avenue Armory in New York City, April 16th-April 19th 2015! Special thanks to Paul Kopeikin. Please stop by Kopeikin Gallery’s booth at the show to visit with me and the work! https://aipad.site-ym.com/?page=PhotographyShow
I am very honored to have my work featured on L’Oeil de la Photographie (France/USA) this morning! http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/fr/2015/04/04/l-oeil-des-lecteurs/27684/matthew-swarts-beth-and-the-alternatives/
![MATTHEW SWARTS Screenshot of a webpage for the Flash Forward Boston event, featuring ART by PHOTOGRAPHER MATTHEW SWARTS in the exhibition “[Photo]gogues: New England (Part 3)” with a colorful pixelated artwork and event information about dates, location, and featured artists.](https://matthewswarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/matthew-swarts-griffin-museum-of-photography-960x1092.jpg "MATTHEW SWARTS Matthew Swarts + Griffin Museum of Photography + [Photo]gogues 2015 matthew swarts griffin museum of photography")
Incredibly honored to be included amongst photographic educators in the New England area showing work in Paula Tognarelli’s and Frances Jakubek’s [Photo]gogues 2015:, part of the FLASH FORWARD BOSTON festival! Dates Apr 24–May 15, 2015 Hours Mon-Thurs: 10 AM–9 PM Fri-Sat: 10 AM–9:30 PM Sun: 10 AM–9 PM Location Lafayette City Center Passageway (links Macy’s…
So Delighted to be showing work from The Alternatives at the very first SLIDELUCK BOSTON! From the show announcement: Slideluck is teaming up with Boston Cyberarts to bring you the first SLIDELUCK Boston! Join us on Saturday, April 11th at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge for our “Technology & Art” themed show. This show’s curator is Stephanie…
I am thrilled to announce my first exhibition with Kopeikin Gallery (Los Angeles): Matthew Swarts: PROCESSING (Beth and the Alternatives), March 7th through April 18th, 2015. My most sincere thanks to Paul Kopeikin, whose collaboration and support for this work have made all things newly possible! Friends and followers near Los Angeles, please join me at Kopeikin…
Delighted to be included in SLIDELUCK CHICAGO (IV); Special thanks to Andrew McFarland! Matthew Swarts from Slideluck on Vimeo. From the announcement text: Brace yourself, Chicago! Slideluck is returning just in time for Valentine’s Day. Join us for another night of food, music, fun, and art on Friday, February 13th, 2015, at The Promontory in…
I am incredibly honored to be a part of Jon Feinstein’s ground-shaking exhibition: RADICAL COLOR @ Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon. Opening Friday, February 6th, 2015 and on view until March 30th, 2015. From the essay that accompanies the exhibition: Radical Color: A Continuous Black Hole Color photography and its relationship to the…
Really delighted to have this feature and interview about The Alternatives on Super Massive Black Hole Magazine! Special and kindest thanks to Barry Hughes! http://smbhmag.com/portfolio/matthew-swarts/
matthewswartswired Delighted and very honored to have my work featured on WIRED today. My most sincere thanks to Jakob Schiller (and Pete Brook) for writing about and believing in my work! http://www.wired.com/2015/01/matthew-swarts-beth-the-alternatives/ matthewswartswiredfeature
I am thrilled and honored to be a part of the conversation led by Jennifer Schwartz at Crusade for Art. This organization is incredible in its outreach and mission to unite creators with collectors, and Jennifer a tireless beacon for all artists. Thank you both to Jennifer and David Rosenberg of SLATE for making this…
Sincerest thanks to David Rosenberg of SLATE for this generous and detailed profile of my process and latest project, The Alternatives. http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/01/15/matthew_swarts_the_alternatives_is_a_series_using_image_manipulation_to.html
Metropolitan Picture Framing recently interviewed me for their informative artist blog. I cannot thank Metroframe.com enough for the rapid but expert fabrication of my frames for Kopeikin Gallery’s installation at MIAMI PROJECT 2014. The craftsmanship and attention to detail is apparent in each hand-made frame. If you are looking for an elegant, beautifully crafted wooden frame…
Delighted to announce my first place selection by Ruben Natal San Miguel in RIPE art gallery’s WHATISAPORTRAIT? exhibition opening this Saturday, December 13, 2014. Special thanks to the tireless and fearless team of Ruben and RIPE’s owner, Cherie Via Rexer! From the gallery: “Ripe Art Gallery’s First Juried Photography Exhibition was an Open Call for…
My most sincere thanks to Jon Feinstein of the Humble Arts Foundation (hafny.org) for very generously profiling my new work on their blog today: http://www.hafny.org/blog/2014/11/matthew-swarts
I am delighted to announce that my work will be shown by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, California at MIAMI PROJECT (December 2-7, 2014) in the Wynwood District of midtown Miami.
New work on the website: THE ALTERNATIVES (http://matthewswarts.com/projects/alternatives/)
I am thrilled and full of gratitude to have been invited by Eliot Dudik, Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of William and Mary, to participate in BREAKING GROUND, a blockbuster exhibition of photography featuring 110 national and international photographic artists! from the text accompanying the exhibition: On this 175th anniversary of the invention…
I had the deep pleasure of returning to Costa Rica after a twelve year absence, if only for a week this month. Much had changed in the years since I lived in Moravia on a Fulbright grant. I am delighted to have had an exquisite walk in the Curi Cancha Private Reserve in Monteverde’s cloud…
Very grateful for the kind and thoughtful words of artist and writer Pelle Cass about BETH for featureshoot.com: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/07/portrait-of-partnership-a-photographers-homage-to-a-failed-relationship-nsfw/ “A woman stands against a gray sky, the low light of the sinking sun glints off her glasses. Her hair is in a bun. She is attractive, but not conventionally beautiful. It’s the same person in…
Curiosity has me experimenting with a book form for BETH:
I have been reworking images from the BETH series. All new images are scalable without a loss in resolution to 40 inches in width. Have a look: http://matthewswarts.com/projects/beth/
My mother by the ocean, Mother’s Day weekend, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, 2014. A special thanks this Mother’s Day to my Mom, Hope Swarts, who has always been the brightest and most clear light in my life. And to my Grandmother, Dorothy Schweitzer, whose resilience in life will forever be inspiring: My Grandmother…
Delighted and honored to have new work from http://cityofconcern.org featured on Empty Stretch! Special thanks to Jordan Swartz! http://emptystretch.com/2014/04/feature-matthew-swarts/
Delighted to announce I’m falling fast for a new photographic project about Somerville, Massachusetts, where I’ve lived since 2002. Please have a look at http://cityofconcern.org
Delighted to belatedly learn that I am a finalist for the ONWARD Compe ’14 Exhibition at Project Basho in Philadelphia, PA! Exhibition opening at Project Basho on March 1, 2014!
Very thrilled to be included in Petty Thieves Four: Coast to Coast by the folks at Empty Stretch. http://emptystretch.com/2014/01/petty-thieves-four-zine-announcement/ Look for more information soon about the release of this exciting new zine.
I just migrated my teaching materials for BASIC BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY to the main site. Please check them out here: http://matthewswarts.com/teaching/basic-black-white-photography/about/
I am honored and thrilled to share Stuart Pilkington’s ‘The Swap’ today with my good friend Tanit Sakakini! Special thanks to Tanit and Stuart for making this creative exchange possible! Check out our portraits of each other: http://www.theswap.info/msts.html
Delighted to have work in PETTY THIEVES THREE (A one night projection party) sponsored by EMPTY STRETCH + FURTHERMORE: November 8, 2013, 8-11pm @ Petworth Citizen & Reading Room, 829 Upshur St. NW, Washington DC! Many thanks to Jordan Swartz and Empty Stretch for selecting my work!
Very honored to have Beth, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, 2012 highlighted on Michael Sargeant’s excellent UK based fine-art photography website: SHOW.ME.PICTURES!
I am honored to have work in the CCRI Faculty Exhibition on the Knight Campus in Warwick, Rhode Island. The show is up until October 31st, 2013. Please stop by if you are in the area! Special thanks to Ricardo Rivera, for organizing and hanging the show!
Really delighted to discover the discussion about Joerg Colberg’s musings on portraiture (and BETH) continues on APhotoEditor. http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/09/30/what-makes-a-great-portrait-is-your-willingness-to-take-what-you-want/ Special thanks to Rob Haggart for bouncing this out!
The conversation about BETH continues today on Fototazo! Special thanks to Tom Griggs for his interest and generosity and compelling questions about the work. Please take a look! http://www.fototazo.com/2013/10/portfolio-matthew-swarts-beth.html
So delighted to have recently been invited by Stuart Pilkington (UK) to participate in his latest exciting curatorial project, ‘The Swap’!
BETH and I are incredibly honored and thrilled to be featured on Jörg Colberg’s celebrated Conscientious Photography Magazine today: “Here is Beth, photographed by her partner, Matthew Swarts. Of Beth we, meaning everybody except those who know this young woman in person, have a set of photographs and nothing else. What are we going to make of…
A happy tweet about my Tumblr (CITY OF CONCERN) from the editors at WIRED MAGAZINE’s celebrated RAW FILE Blog: Tumblr Of The Day: CITY OF CONCERN. http://t.co/s20ZuLg4wT Inventive portraits with altered palettes, by Matthew Swarts @matthewswarts. — Raw File (@rawfileblog) August 19, 2013
http://matthewswarts.com/projects/beth
Delighted to have photographs of my mother and grandmother featured in LAM (Light Architect Magazine): The Grandma Issue:
Honored to be included in a survey of work featured on Greg Jones’ In the In-Between as featured on Le Journal de la Photographie: http://lejournaldelaphotographie.com/entries/11131/in-the-in-between-the-journal-of-digital-artists
Delighted to be featured on SFMOMA’s curated tumblr: http://sfmoma.tumblr.com/post/42614461028/submission-matthew-swarts-beth-long-beach
Honored to have been selected by Sarah Kennel, Associate Curator in the Department of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), to be a part of this exciting exhibition at Texas Woman’s University. Love this image of guests in front of Beth, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, 2012! http://www.twu.edu/visual-arts/joyce-elaine-grant.asp http://www.lightleaked.com/2013/02/curator-sarah-kennel.html?spref=fb
Truly delighted that my work inspired Hannah Stephenson enough to post this beautiful poem on The Storialist.
Happy to be on Tumblr Open Arts! http://tumblropenarts.tumblr.com/post/42696993778/matthew-swarts-beth-long-beach-island-new
Delighted to be featured on emptystretch.com and pinned down mercilessly (and quite beautifully) by The Faceless Kid. Sincerest thanks to Jordan Swartz. http://emptystretch.com/2013/02/matthew-swarts/
My most recent coursework is now accessible on the main site: BASIC DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
So pleased to be featured on the Landscape Stories (Italy) blog today: Check it out: http://landscape-stories.tumblr.com/post/36583467961/ls-09-adolescence-submissions-open-water-by
Sincerest thanks to Tom Griggs of Fototazo.com for asking me to write about my work in The Image, where photographers discuss a single image in relation to a larger body of work. Check it out: http://www.fototazo.com/2012/11/the-image-matthew-swarts-untitled-self.html
Incredibly honored and thrilled to be featured on Flakphoto.com this morning for the second time. Sincerest and warmest thanks to Andy Adams! http://flakphoto.com/photo/matthew-swarts-beth
Delighted about this new interview for In The In-Between! Sincerest thanks to Greg Jones! http://inthein-between.tumblr.com/post/33636474875/matthew-swarts-and-the-reconditioned-image
Matthew Swarts, Mary and Michael, Somerville, Massachusetts, 2007. Honored to be featured in the Shpilman Institute for Photography Blog (Tel Aviv, Israel). Sincerest thanks to Rotem Rozental!
Matthew Swarts, Beth, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, 2012. Delighted to be featured in the ‘One Picture/One Paragraph’ section of Mark Alice Durant’s excellent new site, Saint Lucy! http://saint-lucy.com/one-picture-one-paragraph/matthew-swarts/
Honored and excited to be featured in Fototazo’s gallery section: http://www.fototazo.com/2012/09/fototazo-115-matthew-swarts.html Sincerest thanks to Tom Griggs!
Very thrilled to be featured on Flakphoto.com. Many thanks to Andy Adams! check it out: http://flakphoto.com/photo/matthew-swarts-mary-and-michael
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