Matt Mullican USA, b. 1951

Lives and works between Berlin and New York.

Mullican studied at the California Institute of Art, has taught at Columbia University, the School of Visual Arts in New York, and the London Institute, among others. He has received various awards and scholarships.

 His work avoids general categories and classifications. Mllican uses signs, pictograms and images from everyday life and from the internet to generate a personal language system that emerges as a model of a cognitive perception that the artist symbolizes with colors. His works of art are finger paintings, colored flags, pictograms, performance readings, and hypnosis experiments on himself and other people. It explores the possible modes of representation related to the perception of reality.

 He has had numerous international exhibitions in places like the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Haus der Kunst, Munich; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Center Georges