Matthew Lynch

Associate Professor

School of Art

Matt Lynch was appointed Assistant Professor of Art in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati in 2002. He works as a studio artist and with SIMPARCH (www.simparch.org), a collaborative artist group he maintains with Steven Badgett. Matt received his BFA from Ball State University in 1992, and his MFA from Syracuse University in 1995. He received a Pollock-Krasner grant in 1997, and has been awarded several artist residencies for both his work and the work of SIMPARCH. In 2002, SIMPARCH received a project grant from the Creative Capital Foundation for a permanent installation at the Center for Land Use Interpretation's artist residency program in Wendover, Utah.
Matt's work juxtaposes commonplace fixtures of life with more romantic notions of art, nostalgia and transcendence. Mundane objects and materials are synthesized and placed in sensational situations with sarcasm and wit. Since 1996, SIMPARCH has been creating large-scale interactive artworks that examine building practices and site specificity. The ethos of SIMPARCH has been to create an armature for social interaction through experimentation with materials and design.
SIMPARCH's installations have been exhibited at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH, Deitch Projects in New York, NY, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany, and the 2004 Whitney Biennial in New York, NY.