Matthew rolston biography

He also studied drawing, photography and imaging, and filmmaking at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California.
MATTHEW ROLSTON IS AN ARTIST WHO WORKS IN PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO; his practice centers on portraiture, most notably subjects drawn from celebrity culture.
Matthew Russell Rolston is an American artist, photographer, and director known for his signature lighting techniques and detailed approach to art direction.

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Matthew Rolston

Adjunct Associate Professor
Film / Graduate Film / Creative Direction
matthewrolston.com

Biography

While at ArtCenter, Matthew Rolston was discovered by Andy Warhol who immediately commissioned portraits for Interview magazine. Rolston's photographs have since appeared prominently in publications such asVogue, W, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair and over 100 Rolling Stone covers.

Rolston has written and directed award-winning music videos for artists like Madonna, Janet Jackson and Beyoncé Knowles. He's worked on both print and film campaigns for a wide variety of internationally recognized brands such as L'Oréal, Revlon, Gap, Polo Ralph Lauren and Burberry.

In 1998, Rolston endowed the Matthew Rolston Scholarship for Film and Creative Direction at ArtCenter. He remains actively involved in the College as a mentor and lecturer on the subjects of modern communication techniques, from fashion aesthetics to social impact messaging, and continues to divide his professional time between photography, fine art, publis

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ARTIST BIO / CV

Highlighted Exhibition History

Rolston has been the subject of numerous institutional and gallery exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally, which have led to a series of publications authored by the artist. Rolston has shown work at institutions including The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA; Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

Rolston has exhibited at galleries including CAMERA WORK, Berlin, DE; Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA; Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Ralph Pucci International, Los Angeles, CA.

Rolston’s first solo institutional exhibition on the West Coast opened Summer 2021 at Laguna Art Museum, titled Matthew Rolston, Art People: The Pageant Portraits.

Publications

Five monographs have been published of Rolston’s work:

Big Pictures: A Book of Photographs&nbs

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MATTHEW ROLSTON (USA, b. 1955)

MATTHEW ROLSTON IS AN ARTIST WHO WORKS IN PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO; his practice centers on portraiture, most notably subjects drawn from celebrity culture. Rolston, who lives and works in Los Angeles, studied drawing and painting at the Chouinard Art Institute and at Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles, California, as well as at the San Francisco Art Institute. Rolston studied illustration, photography, imaging and film at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, where in 2006, he received an honorary doctorate.

While still a student at ArtCenter, Rolston was ‘discovered’ by American artist Andy Warhol, who immediately commissioned portraits for his proto-celebrity magazine, Interview, of then-emerging Hollywood director Steven Spielberg. Thus began an extensive career; over the last 30 years, Matthew Rolston’s photographs have been published prominently in numerous magazines, including Interview, Vogue, W, Harper’sBazaar, VanityFair, TheNewYorkTimesMagazine, and over 100 covers of Rolling