Golden Family:Matt Golden

Golden Family: Natsue Ikeda (b.1976, Hiroshima, Japan) and Matt Golden (b.1974 Salisbury, England) are graduates of The Royal Academy of Arts (2007) and Royal College of Art (2005) respectively. Matt Golden and Golden Family have shown extensively in the UK and internationally including: Annely Juda Fine Art, London; BALTIC 39, Newcastle, UK; Limoncello, London; Musee du Jeu de Paume, Paris; Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz, Paris; Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany; Museum Wiesbaden, Germany and Nijo-Jo, Kyoto, Japan. Matt has been artist-in-residence at SGFA, KL, Malaysia; Kyoto Zokei University, Japan; Residency Wohnung Felix Rehfeld, Bremen, Germany. Both artists were resident at Insel Hombroich, Neuss, Germany. Matt won the 2006 Vordemberge-Gildewart Scholarship and the inaugural Yoma Sasburg Award for Sculpture in 2011. He was included in the 2020 Imago Mundi publication, England: Talking Of Art. Contemporary Artists From England. He set-up and ran The Russian Club Gallery, London from 2008 to 2012 and has curated exhibitions and events at Mead Galley, University of Warwick; Annely Juda Fine Art, London; lly Art Lab, La Trienale di Milano, Italy; and for Rollacoaster Magazine. Matt has been a visiting tutor at the following institutions: Ruskin School of Art, Oxford; Royal Academy Schools, London; Royal College of Art, London; Kingston School of Art, UK; University of West England, Bristol; Arts University Bournemouth; Malaysian Institute of Art, Kuala Lumpur; University Institute Technology MARA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Universiti Malaysia, Kelantan; Kyoto Zokei Arts University, Japan. ...

Pi Artworks is an international contemporary art gallery with spaces in London and Istanbul. Its mission is to offer a diverse and active programme that initiates social change. Pi Artworks was founded in Istanbul in 1998. By moving to London in 2013, Pi Artworks wanted to make connections, explore “shared histories”, and bridge artists from different geographies. Pi Artworks London is located in Fitzrovia in the heart of London's West End. Pi Artworks Istanbul gallery relocated to PIyalepasa in close proximity to Arter Museum, with a 350 sq mt. space designed by Polat Group. Since its inception, the gallery has worked with emerging and established artists with the aim of allowing their work to grow in terms of new projects and exhibitions. Pi Artworks now represents a total of eighteen international artists, two-thirds of whom are female. The gallery is also a member of London Collective, and IGA (International Galleries Alliance). ...