Matt Sheridan

M.F.A. - Visual Arts Educator
A contemporary visual artist who works in abstract painting and animated video, Matt is our Media Arts educator, overseeing animation, video, photography, and production for our students.
Over the course of a decade, he taught animation in New York at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute, and at NYU TischAsia in Singapore. Matt’s achievements include: solo exhibitions in Japan, Brazil, Australia and New York; seven artist residencies; four grants for production; and five fellowships. He has also screened his work in two Olympic Games. Matt earned his B.F.A. in Film and Television from New York University and his M.F.A. in Graduate Art Studies from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Prior to attending Art Center, Matt worked in broadcast television as an animator, storyboard artist, and director on shows that include Beavis and Butt-head, Daria, Celebrity Deathmatch, and Blue’s Clues as well as commercials for the National Basketball Association (NBA). Matt's former students have won Student Academy Awards, animated and directed at Pixar, been show runners at Cartoon Network, storyboard artists for Dreamworks and Marvel, and independent animators working for NPR, among others. In 2018 Matt was named a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee for his ongoing work in abstract painting.
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