Press Kit

Matthew Olivier (b. 1991) is a Canadian visual artist and conceptual artist with major practices in painting and writing, based in Toronto. His painting practice runs at matthewolivier.com in the lineage of European figurative painting. His writing and video practice constitutes Codex Algorithm, the major conceptual artwork of his career, which claims the algorithmic feed as an artistic medium and reaches hundreds of millions of viewers per year. The work stands in the conceptual lineage of Marcel Duchamp — the readymade’s gesture of selection and reframing, extended into the algorithmic feed, which Olivier claims as an artistic medium. His commissions and collaborations include the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Government of Flanders, The Bowes Museum, Snijders&Rockoxhuis, M+ Hong Kong, the Munch Museum, MSK Gent, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Avant Arte, Palazzo Maffei, Dior, and the independent game studio thatgamecompany (Sky: Children of the Light) — alongside a private commission from a Trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In September 2026, the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia opened LOOK LONGER — the first-ever in-museum installation of Codex Algorithm — with the patronage of Dennis Alter, Trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His first book, The Art of Reading Art, is published by Smith Street Books on October 6, 2026 and carried by retailers across six continents.

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The full downloadable kit is maintained at codexalgorithm.com/press. Hi-resolution painting images available on request.