Matthew C. Wilson is an American filmmaker, artist, researcher, writer, and occasional curator based in the Netherlands. In his videos, sculptures, and installations viewers meet a range of agents—mercurial materials, non-humans, personae, and inter-subjective entities—entangled with natural processes and shape-shifting historical forces. His projects utilize research-oriented, context-specific, and methodologically eclectic approaches to track the historical inertia of modernity through contemporary technological trends and ecological crises, projecting into speculative futures.

Wilson holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. He has been a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program and numerous residencies including the Jan van Eyck Academie, Skowhegan, CSAV - Artists’ Research Laboratory at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Tabakalera Artistic Research Residency, and the Terra Foundation Summer Residency, among others. Most recently he was the 2024 Artist-in-Residence at NIAS/KNAW - The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study / Academy of Arts in Amsterdam, NL where he researched the interconnected futures of AI, synthetic biology, and film and is currently artist in residence in the EPFL Enter the Hyper-Scientific program for a project focusing on “interspecies interfaces.”

His film/video work has screened on Vdrome.org as well as at IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, ES, Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro, BR among others. Exhibitions of Wilson’s work include: Galeria SKALA, Poznań, PL; Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL; Marres, Maastricht NL; GMK/Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, HR; Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool, UK; The Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects, Brooklyn, New York, US.

Wilson has also served as a tutor at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, NL, in the F for Fact master’s program.