Biography
BIOGRAPHY | Matthew Arnold is an American landscape photographer whose work connects the significance of history with the topography of the land on which the history is shaped. His work has been exhibited and promoted across the United States and around the world in both galleries and museums.
Arnold recently presented a solo exhibition of Longing for Amelia—The Historical and Mythological Landscape at Galerie XII in Los Angeles. His first solo exhibition of this project was shown at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University.
His previous project was published as a monograph entitled, “Topography Is Fate—North African Battlefields of World War II,” by the German publisher, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, with a foreword written by Hilary Roberts, research curator of photography at the Imperial War Museums in Britain. It has been exhibited as solo exhibitions in galleries in both New York City and Philadelphia.
Arnold was recently named a 2020 Critical Mass Top 50 Photographer by Photolucida (his second) for his project on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. In 2020 he was asked to jury the Earth Photo Prize for the Royal Geographical Society in London.
Other awards that he has won include being named a Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Traveling Fellow. He was also included in an important 2015 exhibition at the MFA in Boston entitled “Permanent War—The Age of Global Conflict”.
Matthew Arnold currently lives and works in Los Angeles.