About – Andy Mattern

Andy Mattern is a visual artist working in the expanded field of photography. His photographs and installations dissect and question the medium itself, reconfiguring expectations of photography's basic ingredients, conventions, and opportunities.

Mattern’s work is held in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Southeast Museum of Photography, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. His projects have been exhibited nationally and abroad. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants such as the Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board and Art 365 from the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition. His first monograph, Average Subject / Medium Distance, was published by Aint-Bad Press in 2021.

Mattern holds an MFA in Photography from the University of Minnesota and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of New Mexico. Presently, he serves as Head of the Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History, Vennerberg Chair in Art, Hargis Professor, and Director of the Doel Reed Center at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.