Sally Boon Matthews is a British-born and educated visual artist, and educator living in New York City. She received a Foundation Degree in Art, and a Diploma in Art and Design (Honours) from The Arts University Bournemouth, UK, (formally Bournemouth and Poole College of Art).   Further graduate studies include history and philosophy at Boston University and Columbia Teachers College. Her work has been exhibited and published in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Publications include Tricycle Magazine: The Buddhist Review, NY Times, Blitz Magazine, Penguin Books, Random House, A&M Records, Blitz Magazine, Om Yoga, Warner Books, British Journal of Photography, Battersea Museum of Art, UK, Galerie Solado, Caracas, Venezuela, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Louisiana Museum of Art. Chateau de Trousse-Barriere, Briare, France, Jamaica Arts Centre, NY. USA

 Originally with a background in collage and photography, she has in the last twelve years developed a multi-discipline practice that includes,  sewing, drawing, painting, bookmaking, and video.


Recent  exhibitions, residencies, projects, and grants include:

2024 Visual Artist Residency Studio Kura/Arts Itoya Japan

2024 SIAP  Arts Council of Northern Ireland.  Visual Artist Grant with choreographer Tina Mc Cauley Live performance/Video Installation for Women's Day 2025

2023 Group Exhibition, La Mama Gallery  NYC NY Homecoming

2023 Visual Artist  Embroidery Residency Córtex Frontal, Arraiolos, Portugal

https://cicamuseum.com/the-value-2023/

2023 Group Exhibition CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea. Experimental Video

2022 Group Exhibition Portraits in Scent.  Olfactory Keller Gallery NYC, NY

https://www.olfactoryartkeller.com/

2022 Group Exhibition  Flat File Gallery Online. Lines.

2022 Group Exhibition Re: Discoveries,  Nars Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

2022 Group Exhibition. Perspectives 2022 CICA Museum Gimpo, South Korea   https://cicamuseum.com/perspectives-2022/

2021 Group Exhibition: Brooklyn/Seoul. Video Collaboration with Geuryung Lee. BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn USA

2021 Group Exhibition: Welcome Back, Maggie Peyton Gallery NY, NY USA

2021 Group Exhibition: Incubator Gallery, Brooklyn,  USA

2021 Book:  Art and Spirituality by Cosmina Ene https://www.thenewyorkoptimist.net/the-seeds-of-creation---art-and-spirituality.html

2020  Interview: Artspiel.org Artists in the Pandemic.

2020  Group Exhibition: Flat File Gallery  8x8 Online  

2020 Book: The Seeds of Creation by Cosmina Ene

2019 Threading the Heart Sutra: a Contemplative Arts project with NY Insight Meditation Centre, NYC, USA 

 2017, 2018, and 2019 Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA. Visual Artist Residency.

 2018 Jewish Center for History, NYC, USA Image of Sound audio-visual project. Collaboration with composer Inessa Zaretsky, Live concert performance by Tesla Quartet.

2017 Greenville Fine Arts Center,  NC, USA Image of Sound audio-visual project. Collaboration with composer Inessa Zaretsky, Live concert performance by Tesla Quartet.

https://www.cmscarolina.com/images-and-sound

2017 Warren Wilson College, NC, USA  Image of Sound audio-visual project. Collaboration with composer Inessa Zaretsky, Live concert performance by Tesla Quartet.

2017 Kitteridge Community Arts Center, NC, USA Image of Sound audio-visual project. Collaboration with composer Inessa Zaretsky, Live concert performance by Tesla Quartet.

2017 Swannanoa Music Festival Artist in Residence, NC, USA  

2017 PSC-NY Professional Development Grant, 

2016  Invited photographer Governo do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil.  Culture Program 

2016 ASL Merit Scholarship


Upcoming projects include:


2024 Experimental Video: Where's Emily...? Notes on Coming and Going, Venice, Italy. 

Postponed from 2021

2024 Short Film: As águas do mundo:  with Camila Prado and Pedro Smith, Ilhabela, Brazil. Postponed from 2022