- vivirito@uwm.edu
- Kenilworth Square East 368
- He / Him
Matthew Vivirito
- Teaching Faculty II, Digital Fabrication & Design
Education
MFA, Sculpture, UW-Madison, 2021
BFA, Sculpture and Post Studio Practice, University of Colorado Boulder, 2018
BA, Art History, University of Colorado Boulder, 2018
Biography
Matthew Vivirito lives, teaches, and maintains a studio practice in Milwaukee, WI. Born and raised in Illinois, he lived in the western states of Colorado and California for ten years before becoming a full time artist and educator. Matthew has created a diverse body of work responding to the varied places and environments he has resided within. His work is an exploration of materials, memory, and site-specific content responding to these environments.
Matthew is currently a faculty member at the Pack School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He exhibits work regionally and nationally and was recently shown in the New York Times for his piece Framework as part of the Wormfarm Institute鈥檚 Farm/Art Dtour. He has received the Gener8tor Grant, the Ruth Arts Grant, and a Fellowship to the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery. Matthew has permanent installations on campus at the the Chazen Museum in Madison, WI, at the University of Colorado Boulder, Mitchell Street Arts (MISA) and Harley Davidson in Milwaukee, WI. He has collaborated and worked for notable artists including Macarthur Fellow Mel Chin. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Post Studio Practice and Bachelor in Art History from the University of Colorado Boulder and his Masters of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Link
Recent Work
