He started publishing his articles and research studies in the field of literature and arts since the beginning of the 1960s.
After attending the former French Lyceum in Gjirokastra, Mato was a teacher and principal in the southern Albanian village of Kuç near Vlora.
[2] Mato was then editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Mësuesi" (The Teacher) and was involved in the artistic field.
[2] Twice, from 1991 till 1993 and 1997 from 1998 was he director of the Arts Research Center (Qendra per Studimin e Arteve) at the Albanian Academy of Sciences.
For many years Mato was a lecturer at the University of Tirana and at the Academy of Arts in the subject of aesthetics.