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Matthew Deleget
Founder
Minus Space
Matthew Deleget is an abstract painter, curator, and writer. He has exhibited
his work nationally and internationally, including solo and group exhibitions
in Europe, Asia, and Australia. He is a member of American Abstract Artists,
the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation’s Artist Advisory Committee,
and the board of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Matthew has received
awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, Brooklyn Arts Council,
and The Golden Rule Foundation, and his work has been reviewed in The New
York Times, Flash Art, Artnet Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and
Basler Zeitung, among others. In 2003, Matthew founded MINUS
SPACE,
a platform for reductive art on the international based in Brooklyn, NY.
MINUS SPACE’s web site is used by more than 800 people daily from
150 countries worldwide. Matthew has also organized more than 20 solo and
group exhibitions at both MINUS SPACE’s project space in the Gowanus,
Brooklyn, as well as other collaborating venues on the national and international
levels. MINUS SPACE exhibitions have been reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail,
ArtNews, New York Sun, Houston Public Radio, NYFA Current, New York Magazine,
and Artnet Magazine, among others.
Matthew holds an MFA in Painting and an MS in Theory, Criticism and History
of Art, Design and Architecture from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
From 1998-2009, Matthew worked at the New York Foundation for the Arts,
where he founded and directed NYFA’s Information & Research Department.
This included all of NYFA’s on- and offline programs for and about
artists, including its comprehensive web site, classified listings, artist
magazine, artist learning area, searchable databases and collaborative
research projects. More than 4.5 million individuals use NYFA’s information
programs annually. |
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