Matthew Kluber

Matthew Kluber is an Iowa native and is currently a Professor in the Art and Art History department of Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. At Grinnell, Mr. Kluber teaches print media, digital media, drawing and hybrid media.

Kluber holds a master of fine arts degree from the University of Iowa and a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has taught at the University of Iowa and at Iowa State University and was Artist-in-Residence at the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa. Kluber has exhibited paintings/projections, films, and drawings at galleries and museums including: the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China; FOCUS09/Art Basel, Switzerland; The Painting Center, New York; David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe; Haw Contemporary, Kansas City; the Portland Museum of Art, Oregon; The Micro Museum, Brooklyn; the Austin Museum of Art, Texas; the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan; the Des Moines Art Center; the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha; and the Thoma Art Foundation, Chicago.

His work investigates the intersection of painting and digital technology, locating itself at the point where the physical world (traditional media) meets the virtual world (new media). At this intersection the ephemeral, un-located space of digital video is attached, by means of projection, to the fixed object of a painting, illuminating it with a new color space and code-derived content, creating a hybrid pictorial experience. Reference points for this work come from an interest in the historic changes brought about in art by social and cultural transformations and rapid developments in science and technology in the 1960’s and 70’s.

SOURCE - http://www.josephneasegallery.com/artists/matthew-kluber (Sept 2025) & https://www.matthewkluber.com/statement (Sept 2025)