Matthew Monahan (born 1972)[1] is an American contemporary artist based in Los Angeles.
[2] He works in a variety of artistic disciplines that incorporate mixed media and found objects such as "foam, folded and crumbled construction paper," glass vitrines, and drywall.
[2] His sculptures and installations often combine modernists refences with figurative "fragments of ancient, mainly Greco-Roman statues.
"[4] Monahan graduated from Cooper Union School of Art in 1994 with a BFA and the De Ateliers in Amsterdam from 1994 to 1996.
[5] Monahan has been a prominent member of a new generation of artists in Los Angeles "that includes Aaron Curry, Thomas Houseago, Elliott Hundley, and Lara Schnitger among its cohort.