Matthew Holloway is a Seattle-based artist whose paintings transform familiar forms into contemplative meditations on love, family, memory, belonging, aspiration, reinvention, and the human experience. 

He studied painting at The Ohio State University and established a Bay Area studio in 1992, exhibiting across the region for fifteen years and building a collector base that spans the country and abroad. Relocating to Seattle in 2014, he has continued to exhibit and sell work to private collectors.

Raised in rural Ohio, growing up surrounded by expansive fields, dotted with isolated farms, each with their own stories and shadows spanning generations. That lived experience forms the foundation of his recent work.

His earlier work focused on anthropomorphic expressionism, transforming the concept of the still life into intimate studies of human connection. Still Lives the pear as a figurative form, posed, vulnerable, and socially aware. These compositions evoke the subtle dynamics between families, friends, and lovers in the moments that define their lives.

Urban Allegories explores contemporary city life with its emotional challenges and ambitions. Saturated color, absurdities and oddities, captured in improvisational symbolism, these works create a world that feels exuberant, unstable, lonely, and faintly dangerous all at once.

Rather than driven by intentions, Aberrations are incidents: immersive, luminous fields of color, texture, and atmospheric convergences. The technique used in this series reveal hidden depths and textures indicative less of what the canvas contains and more of what the observer brings in the moment.