Artist Statement/ Biography

Haley Matis-Uzzo is an interdisciplinary artist that lives and works in Queens, New York. Their work investigates how we mimic and incorporate natural environments into our diet and life to achieve optimization of self and ego. Some embodiments of escapism and self-preservation that exist within our gloomy Anthropocene take a form that is both humorous and terrifying. This feeling is incorporated into their work to demonstrate our ritualistic distancing from our diminishing ecosystem.

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In February 2020, they curated and created work for the two-person show, drinking: TEMPORARY PLEASURES, at The Distillery Gallery in South Boston. Matis-Uzzo’s work has been featured in Studio Visit Magazine, AQNB, and in events at ICA/Boston and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. They were a 2019 participant at Otis College of Art and Design’s L.A. Summer Residency.