{"id":14427,"date":"2017-08-25T08:39:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T06:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/matthew-attard\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:40:33","slug":"matthew-attard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/matthew-attard\/","title":{"rendered":"MATTHEW ATTARD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Matthew Attard (Malta, 1987) was the artist who represented the Maltese Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, with the project I WILL FOLLOW THE SHIP, commissioned by the Malta Arts Council and co-curated by Elyse Tonna and Sara Dolfi Agostini.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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His artistic practice investigates images as social and cultural constructs. Matthew is deeply interested in situating his practice within the field of contemporary drawing through a multimedia approach that highlights the versatile, performative and temporal nature of drawing. His interest in understanding the gaze as a form of drawing \u2013 in its perceptive, physiological and cultural dimensions \u2013 has been central to his practice-based doctoral research at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, funded by the Malta Arts Scholarship programme.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Raised in Malta, in 2009 he moved to Venice and collaborated with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the United States Pavilion at the 2009 and 2011 Venice Art Biennale. He later returned to Malta, where in 2018 he obtained a Master of Research at the Department of Digital Arts, University of Malta. He exhibited his works for the first time in a double solo exhibition organised in 2014 at Galleria Michela Rizzo in Venice. Since then he has exhibited in Venice, Rome, Valletta, Genoa, London, Beijing and Los Angeles, among other cities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In addition, in 2017 he was selected for the third edition of the Biennale Le Latitudini dell\u2019Arte at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, while in 2018 he received the Under 30 Euromobil Prize at ArteFiera in Bologna. He was selected three times to exhibit in Ten Artists to Watch at LACDA (Los Angeles Centre for Digital Arts) and in 2019 he was invited to participate in Artissima Telephone at the OGR spaces in Turin. In 2021 he was selected for the Lumen Prize 2021. Rajt ma rajtx\u2026 naf li rajt is one of Matthew\u2019s main solo exhibitions, curated by Elyse Tonna at Valletta Contemporary in 2021. In 2022 he was commissioned to create the work Here's How I Did Not See What You Wanted Me To See as part of the digital residency OPEN at Blitz in Valletta, curated by Sara Dolfi Agostini. In 2023 he held the solo exhibition Ship of Fools at Galleria Michela Rizzo in Venice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2025 he presented segni di rotta at Galleria Michela Rizzo and in October 2025 inaugurated The Ship (Unseen), curated by Elyse Tonna, at the Inquisitor\u2019s Palace in Birgu, Malta.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Matthew Attard (Malta, 1987) was the artist who represented the Maltese Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, with the project I WILL FOLLOW THE SHIP, commissioned by the Malta Arts Council and co-curated by Elyse Tonna and Sara Dolfi Agostini. His artistic practice investigates images as social and cultural constructs. Matthew is deeply interested in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-artista.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14427"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19257,"href":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14427\/revisions\/19257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}