Matthew Ledwidge
Matthew Jacob Ledwidge (Toronto, 1994) is an artist based in Cambridge, MA, working in an interdisciplinary mode between forms of academic research, artistic inquiry, and media production. He holds a BFA from Cooper Union, New York City, and a Master of Science in Art, Culture, and Technology from MIT. He was recently an MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative fellow, and artist-in-residence at SOMA in Mexico City. His work is built around particular geographic and historical sites and uses structural intervention, installation, image, and sound to engage with the conditions of knowledge and attention in the built environment. Past projects have focused on the transmission of historical information at the site of a particular work, investigating conditions of obfuscation, conventions of representation, and the psychosomatic implications of particular disclosures. Recent exhibitions and collaborative projects have been presented at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris; Sakiya, Ramallah; Gallery Elektrozavod, Moscow; The Shed, New York; GGG Foundation, Basel; Festung Hohensalzburg, Salzburg. He has also been involved in curatorial and educational projects at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies Archive at MIT, The Herb Lubalin Study Center, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy.