Matthew Ward and John Osorio-Buck

John Osorio-Buck is his own subject of social experimentation. After graduating from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2003, he has been engaged in developing his work away from the process of creating singular autonomous art objects and towards a method of creating work or Projects that may produce objects, but are more conceptual in process. His work is a hybrid of genres, creating performative structures that take on issues of displacement, sustainability, and self-reliance. By pursuing projects that are enacted in the public sphere, he connects with a wider spectrum of individuals who may not visit gallery spaces on a regular basis, encouraging a relevancy and dialogue, not only with the general art-viewing public, but the general public as well.

Matthew Ward
b.1976
2005 graduate, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY
As for my individual work, I have always looked thoroughly into the histories of arts and cultures, fascinating myself with all their faults and victories, using the past as a springboard for thoughts and ideas to help me with the present. Most recently I have been working in collaboration with a close (lifetime) friend. We are working towards a way in which we work symbiotically. We work together, we play together, we have past and we have future.