Matt Shane

Matt Shane’s individual practice incorporates painting and drawing in several different modes, all of which are practised with assured handling and confident execution. Marrying imaginative and intellectual elements to a generous, humanistic outlook, Shane investigates places as ideas and vice versa. He creates panoramic vistas that both invite us inwards as well as insist on a mental taking stock, an attempt at systematic logic that can be understood as literal, political, technological - but also as aesthetic and abstract. 

 

Shane holds a BFA from the University of Victoria and an MFA from Concordia University, and lives and works in Montreal. He has received numerous grants, commissions, residencies, and bursaries and is currently a professor at Concordia University and Dawson College. His work can be found in the collections of the Bank of Montreal, the Caisse Populaire Desjardins, Hydro-Québec, the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.