Matthew Deane Parker is a disabled multimedia artist [B. 1991] that works in sculpture, photography, and installation. Parker’s practice explores the nature of making bodies of work without a working body. He uses foam boulders to create physical barriers in spaces to implore the audience to reconsider their relationship with what is hard, heavy, or mobile. His work humorously explores the contradictions between disabled bodies existing in abled spaces, and the burdens of navigating art, labor, and relationships with a disability. Parker has recently shown work at Coffin Farm [Redmond], Specialist [Seattle], and his storage unit 1A47 [Seattle]. Parker earned his BFA in Visual Art from Cornish College of the Arts in 2022. He is currently residing in Seattle and working towards his MFA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

mail@matthewdeaneparker.com

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