"In my work, I use discovery and the creative process to explore complex geographies and the alienation and displacement brought on by cataclysmic disasters, violent conflicts and human hubris."
Matthias Düwel was born in Berlin, Germany. He received his Meisterschüler (MFA) from the Universität der Künste Berlin in 1983. The following year he was awarded a German Academic Exchange travel fellowship, made artist in residence at NYU Deutsches Haus, and provided a post-graduate fellowship to the N.Y. Studio School. In 1985 he received a Pollock-Krasner grant award.