Matthew Biederman

Visual Arts

Born in Chicago and a resident of Montreal since 2004, artist Mathew Biederman works with electromagnetic impulses to create phantasms of bright colour that often shift and shape before the viewer’s eyes. A director of Artists’ Television Access from 1995, in 1999 he jump-started his own artistic career by winning the Bay Area Artist Awards, and followed it up the next year with the first prize at Slovenia’s Break21 Festival. Since then, he has undertaken artistic residencies in Scotland, New York, and England, and mounted exhibits in Peru, New Zealand, the US, and at Montreal’s own Oboro Gallery. Biederman’s multimedia work also takes him into the realm of performance, many of which have been featured at international digital-arts festivals such as Austria’s Ars Electronica, England’s Futuresonic, the Nuit Blanche in Paris, and Montreal’s MUTEK. With so many accolades already under his belt, is it possible that Biederman came to Montreal to complete an MFA at Concordia? That is precisely what he just finished in 2009. (DN)

Iterating Color Field, Sorted and Measured Three Times, 2009, installation