SYLVIA MATAS
black and white photo of a road

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Sylvia Matas is an artist working with images and language resulting in videos, books, texts, and drawings. Recent work was made using found photographs from the internet including sources like surveillance cameras, satellite photos, and online archives. She is interested in questioning habitual ways of seeing and the ways in which technology can alter how we perceive reality.

Her work has been exhibited at Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Gallery 44, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Mercer Union (Toronto), The Maclaren Art Centre (Barrie, ON), The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Plug In ICA, School of Art Gallery (Winnipeg), Truck Contemporary Art (Calgary), and the Art Gallery of Regina. She received her MFA from the Chelsea College of Art in London, England. Her work is in collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, BMO and TD Bank (Toronto). She has published four artist books.