Matthew Holloway(Matthew Holloway)(@matthewholloway)
PremierMatthew Holloway is a Seattle-based artist. He studied painting at The Ohio State University. He established his Bay Area studio in 1992, exhibiting across the region for fifteen years and building a collector base that spans the country and abroad. Since relocating to Seattle in 2014, he has continued to exhibit and sell work to private collectors.
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Matthew Holloway is a Seattle-based artist whose paintings transform familiar forms into contemplative meditations on love, family, memory, belonging, aspiration, reinvention, and the human experience. He studied painting at The Ohio State University and established a Bay Area studio in 1992, exhibiting across the region for fifteen years and building a collector base that spans the country and abroad. Relocating to Seattle in 2014, he has continued to exhibit and sell work to private collectors. Raised in rural Ohio, growing up surrounded by expansive fields, dotted with isolated farms, each with their own stories and shadows spanning generations. That lived experience forms the foundation of his recent work. Urban Allegories explores contemporary city life with its emotional challenges and ambitions. Saturated color, absurdities and oddities, captured in improvisational symbolism, these works create a world that feels exuberant, unstable, lonely, and faintly dangerous all at once.
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Urban Allegories
The contemporary city can feel like a bizarre, surreal carnival populated by polarities; construction cranes and circus tents, container ships and shopping carts. The imbalance of appetite and ambition with entropy and atrophy. But behind this cacophony, a meditation on the fractured, performative, and deeply human contemporary condition: defining for ourselves what it is to have enough. Saturated color, absurd humor, theatrical compositions, and improvisational symbolism create a layered vernacular reframing the chaos of modern city life as an exuberant embrace.
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Recent Works
What if the buildings we remember are really portraits of ourselves? Distorting ingrained, iconic forms, these paintings explore the shifting relationship between the places we inhabit and the lives we imagine beyond them. Sitting between material reality and emotional isolation, these works invite consideration of the quiet and unstable equilibrium where solitude, inheritance, and hope coexist.
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Featured Artwork
First Light 14" x17"
2026 · 14 x 17 inches · Acrylic on canvas
Resilience and courage require self-reflection, and acknowledgement of what cannot be controlled. Finding joy requires the self-discipline to set aside judgment and embrace desires you share with others. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
Preacher's Ladder 14" x 17"
2026 · 14 x 17 inches · Acrylic on canvas
We all have family secrets. The best ones are give depth and shade to past generations, turning them from stoic black and white photos, to living human beings with passions and tales to tell. There is a kind of peace in gaining the perspective that sometimes that even the perfect people have faults and what felt like shame was really the irony of the self-righteous simply being human Preacher's Ladder is an acrylic 14" x 18" contemporary painting on canvas. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
South Franklin 16" x 16"
2026 · 16 x 16 inches · Acrylic on canvas
Home is where children play and roses bloom. Where a candle keeps silent vigil and the family keeps the home fires tended in anticipation of an absent love’s safe return. We all have a person definition of what "home" means, memories of moments shared with loved ones, the absence of things desired. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
Hung out to dry 16" x 16"
2026 · 16 x 16 inches · Acrylic on canvas
After the bloom, comes the harvest, Tied and pinned to a line and left on their own to face the elements, their essences concentrates in darkness. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
Float 10" x 12"
2026 · 12 x 12 inches · Acrylic on canvas
In the heat of summer, drifting, suspended, unconnected from time. Chased by the sun into the pool until the even that will that gives way to heat of the sun. Shade. And still air. Childhoods spent in the dappled light, cool water, and quiet places. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
Free Range 14" x17"
2026 · 14 x17 inches · Acrylic on canvas
The oldest lessons are the hardest to learn. Who's guarding the hens? Where are your eggs? Overhead, watchful eyes see if you yet understand the wisdom of Aesop. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
Tethered Heaart 11" x15"
2026 · 11 x 15 inches · Acrylic on canvas
Between the past, well known and comfortable, and the future, full of possibilities and risks, we have all found ourselves suspended in that moment of choice. That liminal space in which we both stay and leave, where we retain what we have and we let it go. Keeping what we know and pursuing what we desire. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
Love is a ladder 24" x 36"
2025 · 24 x 26 · Acrylic on canvas
The distance between the lives imagined and the lives we inhabit occupy the same space as our image in a mirror. They both co-exist within different conditions of light, gravity, and orientation. Ladders suggesting both ascent and decent are fragile in these works, acts of connection to the space between loss and renewal, grounding and transcendence, and simply living and being being loved. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
The Ravens 12" x 10"
2026 · 12 x 10 inches · Acrylic on canvas
Blending folk imagery with restrained color, textured surfaces, and sparse architectural forms, this work balance support and instability. This visually quiet yet emotionally persistent work speaks of transformation, and the choices we aspire to make. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
The morning light, 10x12 acrylic on canvas
2026 · 10 x 12 · Acrylic on canvas
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