Lay the forest of years beside you
Lay the forest of years beside you, 2017
Matt Gonzalez is a native of McAllen, Texas and received his BA from Columbia University in New York City. He has been living in San Francisco since 1991. Gonzalez has had solo shows at Dolby Chadwick Gallery, Park Life, Soap Gallery, and Adobe Books Backroom Gallery. He has been included in group exhibitions at Guerrero Gallery, Fecal Face Dot Gallery, 111 Minna Street, Johansson Projects, and Triple Base Gallery.
He has taught Art & Politics at SFAI and has written about various artists including Kurt Schwitters, Barry McGee, Gustavo Ramos Rivera, Christa Assad, Andrew Schoultz, Eva Hesse, Theophilus Brown, Sherie Franssen, and Keegan McHargue among others. Gonzalez's own work has been reviewed in Art LTD ,West Coast Art + Design, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Cultural Interventions, NY Arts Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.