Matt Nolen
Arts/Industry: Pottery, 2001
Matt Nolen’s work has most recently turned to the figure as form, departing from the lavishly painted vessels and tiled environments of previous works. In doing so, the stories he tells have become more personal and often are informed by the inner landscape of self. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in numerous private and public collections including Cooper-Hewitt Museum (NY), Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Newark Museum (NJ), Houston Museum of Fine Art, de Young Museum (CA), and Everson Museum of Art (NY).
Nolen’s work has been written about and reviewed in many periodicals and books including The New York Times, American Ceramics, Ceramics Art and Perception, Masters of Craft, Confrontational Clay, and Postmodern Ceramics and Painted Clay.
Nolen has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Mid Atlantic Foundation Fellowship, and international residencies in Israel and China. His Arts/Industry residency at Kohler Co. resulted in a handmade public washroom that was named “Best Restroom in America” by the Cintas Corp. and among “The 10 Best Bathrooms in the World” by the Travel Channel.
He has recently served as president of the board of trustees for Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine, and is adjunct professor of art at New York University, Hunter College, and ceramics area coordinator at Pratt Institute.
