Biography
"My work performs culture and collects memory.
My installations, videos and performances appropriate and de-regulate social and historical constructs: self, nation, history. I use image and language as formal stand-ins for the latent territories that underlie these constructs and the thresholds that link them".
Mathew Paul Jinks is an English Immigrant, living teaching and working in Chicago Illinois. He completed his undergraduate degree at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland in 2005, studying Fine Art Photography, then emigrating to the U.S and completing his MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago in Studio Arts, in 2008. Whilst currently living and working in Chicago Mathew teaches locally at The School of The Art institute and De Paul University. Mathew frequently collaborates with fellow artists, notably working for Omer Fasts production of Looking Pretty for God 2008 and more recently with Theaster Gates choir performance at the Milwaukee Museum of Art. He also records
and produces sound for moving image, working often with local film maker Melika Bass and recently for Mark Jeffries performance group Every House Has A Door. Mathew is currently working on a
new body of work entitled Trauma Narratives; Relocated, that incorporates performance and sculptural works adapted from collected narratives of the histories of pre-diasporic immigrants in Illinois.
Recent screenings and exhibitions include, 'Violence'
in St Louis and Chicago, 'The Gene Siskel Theater', Chicago, 'On Sundrun' at Gallery 400, Chicago, 'Art Chicago, Next Art Fair' Chicago, and "Instruments of Resurrection" at Roots and Culture Gallery, Chicago,
curated by Elizabeth Chodos.
