Mathis Collins
1986, Paris, France
Mathis Collins (Paris, 1986) is a French-Canadian sculptor and performer. He studied art in Cergy, Metz, Montreal, and Brussels before participating in Open School East in London. His artworks have been exhibited at CAPC Bordeaux, Palais de Tokyo, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Friche Belle de Mai, Riijksakademie Amsterdam, 1m3 Lausanne, and Longtang Zurich. Mathis Collins organizes collective workshops and public events centered around objects or popular and grotesque artisanal practices. The collaborative creations that emerge from these events aim to reinvent, through absurdity, the modes of exhibition for popular arts. (source: Lafayette Anticipation)