Matthew Connors

Matthew Connors

Not to be confused with Matthew Connor.
Matthew Connors
Born1976 (age 49–50)
Education
OccupationsArt photographer, educator
Awards
Websitewww.matthewconnors.com

Matthew Connors (born 1976) is an American photographer, artist and educator. He received the Abigail Cohen Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (2024),[3] and the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Artist's Book (2016).[4] His work has been exhibited in a range of international institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York;[5] the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;[6] Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Rome;[7] DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague; and Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York.[8]

Connors's photographs and publications have been reviewed and featured in numerous outlets including The New York Times,[9] M, Le Magazine du Monde,[10] The Wall Street Journal,[11] British Journal of Photography,[12] Frieze,[13] The Brooklyn Rail,[14] The California Sunday Magazine,[15] Time,[16] and The New Yorker.[17]

Early life and education

Connors was born in 1976.[1] He grew up in Port Washington, New York.[1] He earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Chicago in 1998 and an MFA in Photography from Yale University in 2004.[18]

Work

Connors works across photography, writing, and artist's books. His projects frequently engage contemporary history and politics, often in international contexts, during moments of acute social and geopolitical crises. Fire in Cairo (SPBH Editions, 2015) developed from trips to Egypt and presents a fragmentary visual account of the period surrounding the Egyptian Revolution and its aftermath.[16] He has also photographed extensively in North Korea, in Ukraine at the outset of the war, and in Hong Kong during the Pro Democracy Movement. Connors's photographic work during the 2019 pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong has been cited in connection with his being denied entry to Hong Kong in January 2020 and again in August 2023, according to press-freedom organizations and news reports.[19][20]

Awards and honors

  • Abigail Cohen Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome (2024)[3]
  • MacDowell Fellowships (2010; 2019)[21]
  • Artist-in-Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts (2022)[22]
  • Light Work Artist-in-Residence (2017)[23]
  • International Center of Photography Infinity Award: Artist's Book (2016)[18]

Publications

  • The Axe Will Survive the Master (MACK/SPBH, 2026)[24]
  • Fire in Cairo (SPBH Editions, 2015)
  • Wake (Roman Nvmerals, 2019)
  • The Poetics (with Lucy Ives) (ITI Press, 2019)

Public collections

Connors' work is held in several museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art (New York),[25] the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston),[26] and The Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven).[27]

Teaching

Connors is a tenured professor in the Photography Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) where he has taught since 2004 and periodically serves as department chair and Photography Graduate Program Director.

He has also taught in the Image Text Ithaca MFA Program and the Yale School of Art MFA Program.[18][28]

Connors has led workshops, including for Fondazione di Sardegna / The Photo Solstice (Sardinia).[29] He has also taught workshops at the Aperture Foundation, and the Humid.[30]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Matthew Connors (b. 1976, Port Washington, NY)". MassArt Photography. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  2. ^ "Matthew Connors, professor of photography, has received the 2024–2025 Rome Prize". Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Matthew Connors, professor of photography, has received the 2024–2025 Rome Prize". American Academy in Rome. June 5, 2025. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  4. ^ "ICP Announces 2016 Infinity Award Winners". International Center of Photography. February 3, 2016. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  5. ^ "Matthew Connors". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  6. ^ "Faces in the Crowd: Street Photography". mfa.org. Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  7. ^ "Sublime Cliché: Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes in Rome". American Academy in Rome. May 7, 2024. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  8. ^ "The Many Faces Of Occupy New York". HuffPost. May 7, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2026.
  9. ^ Lubow, Arthur (March 9, 2018). "What's New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says (Published 2018)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 30, 2025. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  10. ^ "Un autre regard sur la place Tahrir" (in French). January 19, 2016. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  11. ^ Woodward, Richard B. (March 14, 2018). "MoMA's Human Focus". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  12. ^ Davies, Lucy. "Fire in Cairo - 1854 Photography". 1854.photography. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  13. ^ Sholis, Brian (September 25, 2015). "How Can Photographers Respond to Landscapes of Conflict and Change?". Frieze. No. 174. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  14. ^ Campanioni, Chris (July 30, 2024). "Partial Reveals & Inclusive Revelations in the Post-Truth Simulacracy: The Poetics | The Brooklyn Rail". brooklynrail.org. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  15. ^ "Tear gas on one street and civilians walking on another". The California Sunday Magazine. November 14, 2019. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  16. ^ a b Moakley, Paul (2015). "Fire In Cairo: Revisiting the Revolution in Egypt". TIME. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  17. ^ DenHoed, Andrea (August 11, 2015). "The Artist As a Lonely Hunter". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  18. ^ a b c "Matthew Connors: General Assembly". Light Work. August 29, 2020. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  19. ^ "Three journalists who covered the 2019 protests barred from entering Hong Kong over the last months". Reporters Without Borders (RSF). September 1, 2023. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  20. ^ "American photographer who covered Hong Kong protests denied entry into city". South China Morning Post. January 4, 2020. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  21. ^ "Discipline: Visual Arts (Photography)". MacDowell. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  22. ^ "Matthew Connors". Headlands Center for the Arts. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  23. ^ "Matthew Connors". Light Work. May 21, 2017. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  24. ^ "The Axe Will Survive the Master". MACK. Retrieved January 26, 2026.
  25. ^ "Matthew Connors. Mask in Reverse. 2016 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  26. ^ "Matthew Connors". collections.mfa.org. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  27. ^ "New York City, 2004 Yale University Art Gallery". artgallery.yale.edu. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  28. ^ "School of Art Administration and Faculty (2018–2019)". Yale University Bulletin. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  29. ^ "The Photo Solstice VII (ENG)". The Photo Solstice. 2025. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  30. ^ "Matt and Curran, Nov 15-17". The Humid. Retrieved January 26, 2026.

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