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MATT REYNOLDS is an animated filmmaker, artist, and educator raised in the California Bay Area. He received an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts in 2016. He was an invited artist in residence at GlogauAIR Berlin in 2013, and the Santa Monica Camera Obscura Art Lab in 2020. Consistent across his work in animation, sculpture, and graphic arts is a fascination with the grotesque and fantastical. His sculptures, made primarily from styrofoam and stucco, articulate a personal visual lexicon that melds cartoon exaggerations with anatomical and architectural forms to create playful - yet menacing - hybrid morphologies. Reynolds currently teaches animation and media arts with the Los Angeles Community College District and the non-profit organization LA Promise Fund.
Lives and works Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2010 MFA CalArts, Experimental Animation
2006 BA Bates College
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Matt Reynolds, The Lovecraft Bar, Portland, OR
2012 Benign, But Still Yucky, Fifty24PDX Gallery, Portland, OR
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Spring/Break Art Show, Skylight Culver City, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Sense Bath, Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Weird Flowers, Curve Line Space, Los Angeles, CA
Spring/Break Art Show, Skylight Culver City, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Holy Crap 2, Modest Common, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Chuck Hohng & Matt Reynolds: New Works, Camera Obscura Art Lab, Santa Monica, CA
Morbid Angels, Featured in the Other Places Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
SAP, Burnt Crayon Sandwich & Maiden LA, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Phenomena, Tiger Strikes Asteroid @ Satellite Miami (Art Basel), Miami, FL
2013 Inside Out, Mother Lode, Los Angeles, CA
The Lure, YouMe Haus, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Haunted, Pony Club Gallery, Portland, OR
SELECTED FILM FESTIVALS
Hot Dog Hands
2017 GRAND JURY AWARD, Best Animated Short - San Francisco Int’l Film Festival
GRAND JURY AWARD, Best Animated Short - Florida Film Festival
GRAND JURY AWARD, Best Student Film - ANIM’EST Int’l Animation Film Festival
GRAND JURY AWARD, Best Animated Short - Lausanne Underground Film Festival
JURY AWARD, Animated Short - Ann Arbor Film Festival
SXSW, Official Selection
Annecy, Official Selection
Animafest Zagreb, Official Selection
Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS), Official Selection
Fantoche, Official Selection
Pictoplasma, Official Selection
AFI Fest, Official Selection
Krok Int'l Animated Film Festival, Official Selection
Anifilm, Official Selection
Ottawa Int'l Animation Festival, Panorama Selection
Rooftop Film Festival, Official Selection
Maryland Film Festival, Official Selection
Mill Valley Film Festival, Official Selection
New Orleans Film Festival, Official Selection
Bottom Feeders
2016 HONORABLE MENTION - Giraf Festival of Independent Anim, 2016
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Official Selection
Florida Film Festival, Official Selection
Krok Int'l Animated Film Festival, Official Selection
Twister Alley Film Festival, Official Selection
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, Official Selection
2015 GRAND JURY AWARD, Best Intl’ Animation - Animatricks, Helsinki
SPECIAL MENTION, US Competition - GLAS Animation Festival
SXSW, Official Selection
Melbourne Intl' Animation Festival, 2015 - Official Selection
Flatpack Film Festival, 2015 - Official Selection
Chattanooga Film Festival, 2015 - Official Selection
Animaze Montreal Intl' Animation Film Festival, Official Selection
Maryland Film Festival, Official Selection
Rooftop Films, Official Selection
Odense Film Festival, Official Selection
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES/WORKSHOPS
2023 Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022 Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
SCI-Arc DID Summer Program, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
2020 Camera Obscura Art Lab, Santa Monica, CA
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
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