Born 1956 Delft, Netherlands. Lives and works in Sydney.

Matthys Gerber is an artist who works primarily with painting and photography. His work explores the full gamut of painterly genres, skipping deftly between abstraction and representation, embracing contradiction, defying convention and delighting in the rift between high and low art. Matthys Gerber is a Senior Lecturer in Painting at Sydney College of the Arts.

Exhibitions include: "Beijing Biennale" 2003; "Orifice" Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2003; "It's a Beautiful Day: New Painting in Australia #2" Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne 2002; "El Mundo Nuevo" Bienal de Valencia, Spain, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva 2001; "Virtual Reality - 1st Australian Biennial" National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 1994; "Wit's End" Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 1993.
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