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Matthew Tyson is a British artist who studied at St. Martin’s School of Art and the University of London, and lives in Crest in south-eastern France. He is a printmaker, painter, and book artist. Tyson founded and runs imprints galerie, as dealer, publisher, and producer of an extensive list of artists’ books and prints. He has been a residency fellow at The Edward Albee Foundation in New York, and in his role of publisher / printmaker he has participated in numerous art fairs around the world.
His work is represented internationally in many major collections (U.S.A.: New York Public Library, Library of Congress, Columbia University, MoMA ; London: Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Gallery, The British Library; Paris: Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Bibliothèque d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Vienna: Akademie der Bildenden Kunste; Kaiserslautern: Pfalzgalerie; Offenbach: Klingspor Museum; Florence: Bibliotheca Nazionale Centrale ; the Hague: Rijksmuseum Meermanno-Westreenanium).
Tyson is a professor at the University Jean Monnet, St Etienne, France.
Nationality: British
Gender: Male