For over twenty years Matthew O’Shea has enjoyed a career as both an exhibiting fine artist and a commercial photographer.  His latest body of work brings into question contemporary identity in our modern technological age.  “My interest with this body of work is the forming of the self.  From a given set of options, every person makes a series of choices that form their emotional and physical life.  I’m interested in representing the contemporary human figure in a way that suggests the social, sexual and psychological constrictions that are at odds with the idea of free will and self-determination.” 

EDUCATION
1980 BFA, Washington University, St. Louis
2007 MFA, Washington University, St. Louis

RECENT SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008 Figures, Solo Exhibition, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis
2004 Solo Exhibition, R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis
2002 Solo Exhibition, R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis
2002 Works on Paper 2002, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
2002 Art on Paper 2002, Maryland Confederation of Art, Baltimore, MD
2001 Solo Exhibition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Viridian Artists 12th Annual Juried Exhibition, New York, NY
2001 Rivermarket Regional Exhibition, K.C. Artist Coalition, Kansas City, MO
2001 Photo Processing III International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
2000 In/FORM, Lemp Gallery, St. Louis
1999 The Millennium Show, Center of Contemporary Arts, St. Louis
1997 New Work, solo show, Elliott Smith Gallery of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
1994 New Morning, solo show, Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO