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, and 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.

@sallyboonmatthews


Recent  exhibitions, residencies, projects, and grants include:

2025 Two-person exhibition. In Between Opposites with Jennifer Formica. York College Gallery, York College Queens NY

Visual Art Residency Arts Itoya, Takeo, Japan

2024 Visual Artist Residency Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan

Adelphi University Professional Development Grant

2024 SIAP Arts Council of Northern Ireland.  Visual Artist Grant with choreographer Tina Mc Cauley 

What's it All About? Live performance with Video Installation Derry Art Night  September 2024

Experimental Loop: International Video Art Festival NYC

2023 Group Exhibition, La Mama Gallery  NYC NY Homecoming

Visual Artist  Embroidery Residency Córtex Frontal, Arraiolos, Portugal

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

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

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

hthttps://www.olfactoryartkeller.com/exhibitions/portraits-in-scent

Group Exhibition  Flat File Gallery Online. Lines.

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

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

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

Group Exhibition: Incubator Gallery, Brooklyn,  USA

Book:  Art and Spirituality by Cosmina Ene

 https://www.thenewyorkoptimist.net/the-seeds-of-creation---art-and-spirituality.html

2020  Interview:  Artists in the Pandemic.

Artspiel.org

Group Exhibition:  Line, Flat File Gallery  8x8 Online  

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  Visual Artist Residency Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA..

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

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

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

 Swannanoa Music Festival Artist in Residence, NC, USA  

 PSC-NY Professional Development Grant, 

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

 ASL Merit Scholarship

2009-present Teaching faculty at CUNY and Adelphi Universities.