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Tory Mata grew up in Stoneham, Massachusetts, and received her BA in Fine Arts from Clark University in 2005. After traveling through the southwestern United States, South America, and Nepal, in 2010 she relocated to Key West, Florida, where she is currently based.
Her painted works, though not representational, use the language of landscape and are influenced by these varying terrains and their unique, native colors and forms. Her recent series are minimalist and meditative in tone, with an emphasis on natural materials, textures and processes. Shades of black and white combine to explore the appearance of opposites and the unifying balance between opposing states. Elements that hold symbolic and personal value (notably clay, bone, rust, wood and cotton) come together in varied forms to speak to themes of loss, transformation and impermanence. Works often build in series and multiples, observing the complexity of relationship and the fragmenting of experience. Mata received the Anne Mckee Artist Foundation grant in 2019 and 2022, and the South Florida Cultural Consortium grant in 2022. |
2024 | solo EXHIBITION | jag gallery | KEY WEST, FL | terrestrial rhythm
2023 | GROUP EXHIBITION | MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART NORTH MIAMI | North Miami, FL | South Florida Cultural Consortium
2023 | FEATURED EXHIBITION | JAG GALLERY | Key West, FL | Minimalism Observed
2022 | AWARD RECIPIENT | SOUTH FLORIDA CULTURAL CONSORTIUM | Monroe County, FL
2022 | GRANT RECIPIENT | THE ANNE MCKEE ARTIST FOUNDATION Key West, Florida | For Elegy
2022 | SOLO EXHIBITION | SALT GALLERY Key West, Florida | On Becoming
2022 | GROUP EXHIBITION | FLORIDA KEYS ARTS COUNCIL Key West, Florida | Mavens of Metal & Clay
2021 | GRANT RECIPIENT | FLORIDA KEYS ARTS COUNCIL SPECIAL PROJECTS GRANT | For Elegy
2020 | FEATURED EXHIBITION | HARRISON GALLERY Key West, Florida | Elegy
2020 | GROUP EXHIBITION | KEY WEST ART & HISTORICAL SOCIETY Key West, Florida | From a Woman's Hand
2019 | GRANT RECIPIENT | THE ANNE MCKEE ARTIST FOUNDATION Key West, Florida | For Elegy
2019 | SOLO EXHIBITION | GRACE ON FRANCES Key West, Florida | Placeholding
2018 | SOLO EXHIBITION | THE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST Key West, Florida | Where You Are
2017 | GROUP EXHIBITION | SALT GALLERY Key West, Florida
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Work currently available at:
JAG GALLERY |
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