Matthew comes from a small town called Dinuba located within the San Joaquin Valley of California, just west of the Sierra Foothills. He has attended the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California followed by California State University at Long Beach where he received a BFA in 2005. He is currently pursuing a MFAA at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

"My research at the University of Alberta consists of doing observational drawings of places that I embody with autobiographical significance while incorporating a wide array of linear elements transcribed from maps such as grids, roads, boundaries, trails, waterways, etc. which affect my experience of the landscape."