MFA, University of British Columbia (2017)
BFA, Fiber Arts, University of Washington (2007)

Biography

Matt Browning is a PhD student in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, and a visual artist whose work concerns time, latency, and the selective and hierarchical valuation of human activity. He’s interested in the ways normative and discursive values within art, which are already historically exclusionary on racial, gendered, and cultural grounds, are increasingly expressed in the economic value of artworks. Beyond the category art, Browning is relatedly interested in how formal abstractions like value and exchange catalyze expropriation and bar access to markets. He was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial and has recently shown work in Vancouver at the VAG and Or Gallery.

Research

Art, value, abstraction, hierarchy, racialization, racial capitalism, philosophy of race, value dissociation, formalism

Selected Publications

Or Gallery, Western Washington University, Belkin Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, all 2017, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2016.

017-22 International Doctoral Fellowship|2016-17 SSRCH Affiliated Fellowship

Matt Browning is a visual artist and PhD student in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice. He’s interested in the ways normative and discursive values within art, which are already historically exclusionary on racial, gendered, and cultural grounds, are increasingly expressed in the economic value of artworks. Browning is relatedly interested in how formal abstractions like value and exchange catalyze expropriation and bar access to markets.