Hi, I’m Mathew. I believe in magic.

I’m a multimedia artist creating dance theater, plays, film, poetry, and mixed-media installations. Much of my work is inspired by the people and places in my life—the quiet moments, the strange encounters, the memories that stay with us and slowly become story.

My artistic journey began in children’s theater, and soon after, dance found me. I spent many years performing and choreographing in New York City, where I began to understand art as something we live inside of. My work grows from an embodied, somatic perspective—an interest in how experience moves through the body and becomes meaning.

I care deeply about community, connection, justice, and belonging. Much of what I create explores my life as a gay man—romantic relationships, intimacy, vulnerability, and the courage it takes to love openly. Love, in all its forms, sits at the center of my work.

I come from a family of artists. My mother is a self-taught abstract painter, and from her I inherited a fascination with color, texture, and the way interpretation lives between the artist and the viewer.

My influences move freely across mediums: Salvador Dalí, the Brontë sisters, Meredith Monk, William Forsythe, Butoh dance theater, Björk, Ani DiFranco, house music, Dolly Parton. Somewhere in there are the films that shaped me too—Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Cable Guy, and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. Honestly, you can’t beat Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo in drag.

I’m drawn to the abstract and the experiential: cabaret grit, unconventional spaces, improvisation, modern dance partnering, postmodern movement practices, and interactive performance. I love collage, visual storytelling, cinema, light, sound, and the unexpected ways different mediums collide.

I’m fascinated by cultural artifacts—objects, rituals, and symbols that carry stories across generations. Mythology, religion, dreams, and the subconscious often find their way into my work. Tarot cards, meditation, sage, and crystals sometimes show up in the creative process too.

Spirit animals visit often: the ancient tortoise reminding us of the stories we carry on our backs, and the dragon holding both our deepest fears and our greatest power.

At its heart, my work is about movement—forward motion, transformation, and becoming. I’m interested in growth, change, and the strange beauty of being alive.

An ex-boyfriend once gave me a pair of socks that read: Not all who wander are lost.

I loved those socks.

I stand for freedom and liberation, human resilience, the protection of nature, compassion, play, and joy.

But above all else, I’m a lover of love—romantic, unconditional, and everything in between.

As an artist, that’s at the heart of every move I make.