Matt Wedel (b. 1983, Palisade, Colorado) has exhibited his work widely, most recently in the solo exhibitions Matt Wedel: Phenomenal Debris at the Toledo Museum of Art (2023) and Matt Wedel: On the Verge at the Louisiana State University Art Museum (2019). His work is held in collections and museums internationally, including the Clay Museum of Ceramic Art, Middelfart, Denmark; the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada; the Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii; and the Long Beach Museum of Art, California. He earned his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005 and his MFA in Ceramics from California State University, Long Beach, in 2007, studying under Tony Marsh and Kristen Morgin. In addition to his studio practice, Wedel has been an educator, holding faculty positions at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He lives and works in Athens, Ohio.

cover photo by Jordan Reed