Biography

Mathew Hale is a visual artist who also writes and cuarates. Based in Berlin and Los Angeles, Hale has presented solo exhibitions in both of those cities, as well as in Paris, London, New York, San Francisco, Mexico City, Melbourne, and Kitakyushu, Japan, where he was the recipient of the CCA Artists' Residency. He has also participated in many group shows. Hale works in a wide variety of media, making paintings, sculptures, installations, collages, and drawings, as well as photographic slide-dissolve works that incorporate sound. He has a particular interest in the practice of "free drawing", as theorized by Marion Milner in her book On Not Being Able to Paint. He worked as Milner's assistant for the last eight years of her life. Hale has written catalogue essays on the work of the artists Rodney Graham, Ceal Floyer, Julie Mehretu, and Matt Saunders. He also wrote the main text for the catalogue of the group show The Youngest Day that he curated; presenting the work of twenty-four Los Angeles based artists in Berlin. Hale is currently preparing two books for publication later this year: FACTS OF LIFE and One Silver Dollar Paintings Archive, with X Artists' Books, Los Angeles.