Mezzotint print - ink on paper

Size 4”x 9” - framed

Bio:

Matthew Ballou is an artist and writer living in Columbia, Missouri with his partner and four children. Educated at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA) and Indiana University (MFA), he is a Full Teaching Professor in the School of Visual Studies at The University of Missouri where he has taught since 2007.

For more than two decades Ballou has shown his artwork in exhibitions across the US, most recently in venues from the Daum Museum in Sedalia, MO to the Riverside Art Center near Chicago, IL and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

His publications include a cover feature on the paintings of Odd Nerdrum in Image Journal, an extensive review of Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park Retrospective for neotericART, and work for The MU Museum of Art and Archaeology, SEEN Journal, and Oxford University Press (Grove Art).