ZURICH.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber announced the representation of the American artist Matthew Angelo Harrison. Galerie Eva Presenhuber's representation of the artist is in partnership with Jessica Silverman in San Francisco.

A sculpture by Harrison will be featured in Galerie Eva Presenhuber's presentation at Art Basel this month, and the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery is planned for Spring 2023 in Zurich.

I first saw Matthew Angelo Harrison's work in his Kunsthalle Basel exhibition in 2021. I was immediately drawn to how boldly he confronts the legacy of colonialism and his personal history of growing up in Detroit, a city inextricably linked to the automobile industry and labor strikes. Matthew Angelo Harrison is a remarkable artist, and I am grateful to him and his gallerist Jessica Silverman for their trust and collaboration. — Eva Presenhuber

The sculptor Matthew Angelo Harrison is known for his clear block “encapsulations” of found African artifacts that scrutinize and bring a lens to the ineradicable effects of racism and colonialization. With rigorous technical methods, Harrison enshrines the found objects, such as African wooden sculptures and bone, in acrylic resin, plexiglass, and industrial modeling clay that he then sculpts using computer numerical control (CNC) machines. Harrison has also used these manufacturing techniques to encase recent artifacts of the American working class, speaking to labor and inequality, the politics of mass production, and anthropology.

Matthew Angelo Harrison was born in 1989 in Detroit, MI, US, where he lives and works. Harrison is currently the subject of solo exhibitions at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, US, and SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, US. He has been the subject of further solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH (2021); Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, US (2018); Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA, US (2017); and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI, US (2016).

Harrison’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, US; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, US; Galeries Lafayette Foundation, Paris, FR; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, US; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, US; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US.