Mateo Galvano is engaged with abstraction and its relationship to lyric texts and other forms. He uses painting, drawing, sculpture, digital arts, writing, sound and installation to foment conceptual themes that inform the images and objects he makes. His multimedia studio and exhibition practice reflects a position of experimentation with ideas and presentation formats. In Galvano’s approach, the landscape reveals a condition of damage and regeneration, which parallels the traumatized body in search of healing.
Galvano’s past solo exhibitions include Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art Santa Fe, New Mexico, Mainsite Contemporary Norman, Oklahoma, Muse Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, Addison Arts Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Box Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Aumonerie Saint Jacques in Gordes, France, among others. He has participated in group shows at Ward-Nasse Gallery in New York City, Site Santa Fe, Northeastern University in Boston, Kennedy Museum of Art in Athens, Ohio, University of North Carolina in Asheville, The Chicago Printmaker’s Collective, and many other venues. Galvano holds an MFA in Painting + Drawing as well as a BFA and a Certificate of Museum Studies from Ohio University. His work is included in national and international private collections. Recent awards include residency fellowships at Jentel Foundation, Willapa Bay AiR, and Ucross Foundation.