Matthew Ritchie was born in London, England, in 1964, and lives and works in New York.

His artistic mission has been ambitious—an attempt to represent the entire universe and the structures of knowledge and belief that we use to understand and visualize it.

Ritchie’s installations, which integrate painting, wall drawings, light boxes, performance, sculpture, and projections, are investigations of the idea of information explored through science, architecture, history and the dynamics of culture. Ritchie is often seen foremost as a painter, but his work lies mainly in drawing. He scans his drawings into the computer so he can manipulate them by blowing them up, deconstructing them, and/or transforming them into three- dimensional pieces.

In 2001, Time magazine listed Ritchie as one of 100 innovators for the new millennium, for exploring “the unthinkable or the not-yet-thought.”

British artist Matthew Ritchie speaks about the complex personal language of the artist reflected in his work. Ritchie's "The Universal Cell" was exhibited at the Saint Louis Art Museum as part of the "Remote Viewing (Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing)" exhibition in 2006.

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The Artist Project

Moma Matthew Ritchie

More than 25 solo exhibitions include

Dallas Museum of Art
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
More than 100 group exhibitions