Matthew White (b. 1977) is a figurative sculptor and draftsperson, working across multiple mediums and genres. His work explores his own experience and consciousness in the pursuit of the meaning of reality and the reality of existence. It wasn’t until after a stint in the Peace Corps in South America, and as a social worker and English as a Second Language instructor in NYC, that White focused on his creative impulses, studying the figure intensively at the Art Student’s League of New York, from 2005-2014, and earning his MFA in Sculpture from the New York Academy of Art in 2016. His life-size sculptures have been exhibited in and around NYC, including in Riverside Park in Manhattan, the Greenpoint Sculpture Wall in Brooklyn, Rockland Community College campus, and in Washington D.C. at Founding Farmers Restaurant. In 2019, he participated in the Vermont Studio Center Artist in Residency program and Art Miami with the New York Academy of Art, where he also presently teaches life sculpture, structural anatomy and casting methods.
