Matt Paweski (b. 1980; Detroit, Michigan) lives and works in Los Angeles. He received an MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. Paweski is represented by Gordon Robichaux, New York, and Herald St, London.

He has presented solo exhibitions at Dunes, Portland (two-person with Carla Weeks, 2025); The Fold, Los Angeles (with Lecia Dole-Recio, 2025); Volume Gallery, Chicago (2024); the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (2023); Gordon Robichaux, New York (2026, 2021, and two-person with Sanou Oumar, 2018); Herald Street, London (2020, 2017, 2014); Octagon, Milan (2019); Park View/Paul Soto, Los Angeles (2018); Lulu, Mexico City (with Ella Kruglyanskaya, 2018); Ratio 3, San Francisco (2016); and South Willard, Los Angeles (2015, 2013, 2012).

Group exhibitions include Museo Tamayo (curated by Rodrigo Hernandez and Rodrigo Ortiz Manasterio), Mexico City (forthcoming, 2027); Goldsmiths CCA (curated by Matt Connors), London; Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery, New York; a1043, Paris; White Columns (curated by Lee Mary Manning), New York; Dunes, Portland, ME; Gordon Robichaux, New York; Queer Thoughts, New York; La MaMA Galleria (curated by Sam Gordon), New York; Bodega, New York; Harris Lieberman, New York; Wallspace, New York; Parker Gallery, Los Angeles; South Willard, Los Angeles; PHIL, Los Angeles; Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles; Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles; 356 Mission, Los Angeles; Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles; Octagon, Milan; Librairie Yvon Lambert, Paris; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and kurimanzutto, Mexico City.

His work has been reviewed and featured in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, apartmento, Mousse, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Contemporary Art Daily, Artforum, Los Angeles Review of Books, Artnet, Dwell Magazine, Art in America, Flash Art, and New York Times T Magazine. In 2020, his first monograph, MP.19, was published by Zolo Press.

Paweski’s work is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT.