Matthew de Leon

Matthew de Leon was born in New York, raised on Governor’s Island, and currently lives in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from the University of Connecticut, and his MFA from Parsons the New School. In videos, performances, and drawings he conjures a cast of misfit characters into a realm of narrative and visual structures influenced by MTV music videos, Dutch paintings, and Disney movies. These characters are manifestations of interior feelings that spark a fire of imagination somewhere in the space between tragic and funny, reality and fantasy, the lovely and the bittersweet.
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