An invitation to visit a Richard Neutra private residence in Los Angeles, photographed in May

Matthew Watson

BornNationalityBased In
1981N/ABrooklyn
Biography

Matthew Watson makes exquisitely rendered paintings that are a complex form of social portraiture. His portraits of artists, writers, curators and collectors, interiors, art objects, books and other cultural ephemera, soften the border between subject and object. Watson inserts himself into a fluid chain of relations –– social, economic, power –– frequently working on commission or by invitation to start a painting, in turn producing objects that relay back into the very flows that led to their construction. ...

Selected Artworks
Gallerist’s Residence, Brescia, Visited in 2016
Matthew Watson
Gallerist’s Residence, Brescia, Visited in 2016, 2025
35.5 x 35.5cm
Artists' Residence, Grand Street, Visited in 2025
Matthew Watson
Artists' Residence, Grand Street, Visited in 2025, 2025
38.1 x 47cm
An invitation to visit a Richard Neutra private residence in Los Angeles, photographed in May
Matthew Watson
An invitation to visit a Richard Neutra private residence in Los Angeles, photographed in May, 2021
44.45 x 35.56cm
An invitation to visit a A commission to paint a tattoo, photographed at a gallery in Milan, July 21, , Neutra private residence in Los Angeles, photographed in May 2021
Matthew Watson
An invitation to visit a A commission to paint a tattoo, photographed at a gallery in Milan, July 21, , Neutra private residence in Los Angeles, photographed in May 2021, 2016
35.5 x 30.5cm
An invitation to paint a Beranek Family glass paperweight in an artist’s apartment on 131st Street, New York, June 29 . Object produced at the Beranek Factory in the Czech Republic
Matthew Watson
An invitation to paint a Beranek Family glass paperweight in an artist’s apartment on 131st Street, New York, June 29 . Object produced at the Beranek Factory in the Czech Republic, 2015
30.5 x 25.4cm
A painting of Akila, a purebred basenji, with an Eames folding screen in a writer's loft on 26th Street, New York, September 8, , introduced by a mutual friend and artist
Matthew Watson
A painting of Akila, a purebred basenji, with an Eames folding screen in a writer's loft on 26th Street, New York, September 8, , introduced by a mutual friend and artist, 2014
43.2 x 35.8cm
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