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Biography

Matthew Gamber is an Associate Professor of Photography and New Media in the Department of Visual Arts at the ������̳, where he has also served as the Visual Arts Studio Program Coordinator. His teaching and research focus on archival practices and experimental photography, exploring the intersection of technology and art. His accolades include an Individual Photographer’s Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, an Artist’s Resource Trust Grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, a Traveling Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and a Blanche E. Colman Award.

Gamber is the co-author of Dead Ringer (2024), which explores the divergent paths of vintage photographs, and Matter (2014), an interpretive textbook reimagining Ralph Eugene Lapp’s 1963 book to combine photography with science. Gamber’s recent exhibitions include New Terrain: 21st-Century Landscape Photography at the Worcester Art Museum (2024), The Chisel & The Pencil at Abakus Projects in Boston (2024) and Living Marble at Turley Gallery in Hudson, NY (2022). His photographs have been published in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vogue and Surface Magazine.

Solo Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2024 The Chisel & The Pencil, Abakus Projects, Boston, MA:  

2022 Living Marble (Collaboration with Yael Eban), Turley Gallery, Hudson, NY:  

Group Exhibitions
New Terrain: 21st-Century Landscape Photography, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA:  

Books (Author)
2024 Dead Ringer, TBW Books, San Francisco, CA (Co-author):  

Publications (Editorial)
Van Straaten, Laura. "An Abandoned Campus Becomes a Canvas for Art Galleries." The New York Times. May 8, 2024.https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/arts/design/campus-galleries-opening-upstate.html 

Di Liscia, Valentina. "Six Art-World Cool Kids Take Over Abandoned High School in Upstate
NY." Hyperallergic. July 3, 2024. https://hyperallergic.com/930948/six-art-world-cool-kids-take-over-abandoned-high- school-in-upstate-new-york-the-campus/

Kelly, Brian P. "The Campus Review: Grading an Upstate Art Outpost." Wall Street Journal. July 5, 2024 .https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/fine-art/the-campus-review-grading-an-upstate-art-outpost-airdigital- 72cda006

Waddoups, Ryan. "A Disused School Becomes an Upstate Art Destination." Surface
Magazine. July 26, 2024. https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/campus-upstate-hudson-new-york/

Press (Reviews)
Nancy Sheehan, “Exploring 'New Terrain': Exhibition at Worcester Art Museum challenges preconceptions”, Worcester Magazine, June 5, 2024. https://www.worcestermag.com/story/entertainment/arts/2024/06/05/wam- surprises-with-new-terrain-21st-century-landscape-photography/73333361007/ 

Mark Feeney, “At Worcester Art Museum, photo show gives a different lay of the land”, The Boston Globe, May 9, 2024. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/09/arts/worcester-art-museum-new-terrain-21st-century-landscape- photography/

Blake Andrews, “Dead Ringer: Reviewed by Blake Andrews”, Photo-eye, May 6, 2024. https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/05/dead-ringer-reviewed-by-blake-andrews.html

Suzanne Revy, “New Terrain”, April 18. 2024. https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/new-terrain-21st-century- landscape-photography-at-worcester-art-museum/