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Matthew Poole, MFA

Matthew Poole, MFA
Matthew Poole, MFA

Art and Design

Curator, writer and professor of art history and theory

Matthew Poole, professor and former chair of the Department of Art and Design, is a curator of contemporary art and a curatorial theorist.

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Matthew Poole is a curator, writer and professor of art history and theory in the Department of Art and Design at CSUSB. His practice involves producing exhibitions, publishing artists’ projects, writing on topics related to the relations of production and distribution of art, and teaching.

In 2022-23 and 2023-24 he is seconded as the interim chair of the Department of Communication Studies at CSUSB, and from 2015-2021 he was chair of the Department of Art and Design at CSUSB. Prior to moving to California in 2012, Poole was a faculty member in the Department of Art History & Philosophy at The University of Essex, Colchester, UK, where he ran the post-graduate curatorial programs.

His most recent published written work includes:

  • "Infrastructure, Ideology, Hegemony," by Matthew Poole, chapter in El Baroni, Bassam (ed.), Between the Material and the Possible: Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art, [Boston, Mass./Berlin, Germany: MIT/Sternberg Press, 2022]
  • "Allography and the Baroque Agency of the Objectile," by Matthew Poole, chapter in Beech, Amanda & Mackay, Robin (eds.), Construction Site for Possible Worlds, [Falmouth: Urbanomic Press, 2020]
  • "Marcel Duchamp’s Diagrammatics of Love, Sex and Erotics," by Matthew Poole, in Glass Bead Journal Site 2: Dark Room – Somatic Reason and Synthetic Eros, published April 2019 [Paris, France: Glass Bead, 2019]

Poole received his Master of Fine Art from the University of Northumbria, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK and his Bachelor of Fine Art from Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford, UK.