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Born and raised in Silicon Valley, Matthew Tierney studied UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television, where he created the sound and art installation December in McGowan Hall and composed the score for the short film Bitter Sweet. While a student, Matt worked at Current TV as the youngest features producer in the network’s history.

Currently Matt works in the mediums of painting and sculpture, as well as music and sound design, collaborating with artists like Black Gatsby on recent records. Several of his works were included in the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery Tour (2014, 2015).

Since 2015 he’s served as a branding and design consultant for technology start-ups MindSumo, Daisy, and Globality.

Matt’s art has recently been seen alongside Ed Ruscha, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Andy Warhol in the travelling museum exhibition, Joan Quinn: A Life in Portraits, which included shows at the Fresno Art Museum and the Cornell Art Museum. As part of the exhibition, Matt spoke at Sotheby’s Auction House (NYC) alongside Joan Quinn.

In 2016, he designed the set for I Am Salome (Black Lodge Theater, NYC).

In 2017, he was featured in the group exhibition Blah Blossom, alongside artists George Condo, Jeff Koons, Franz Kline, Francesco Clemente, Eric Fishl and Adolf Braun. Matt will have his first solo show with Bryant Toth Fine Art at the former CRG Gallery space in NYC (October 2017).

His work can be found in the private collections of Maya Lin and Daniel Wolf, Norman Rosenthal, David Hockney, Georg Baselitz, Susan and Joel Hyatt, The Gunderson Family, Keith Sonnier, and others.