ABOUT MATTHEW ROLSTON

Matthew Russell Rolston is an American artist, photographer, and director known for his signature lighting techniques and detailed approach to art direction and design. Born in Los Angeles, Rolston studied drawing and painting in his hometown at the Chouinard Art Institute and Otis College of Art and Design, as well as in the Bay Area at the San Francisco Art Institute. He also studied illustration, photography and imaging, and film at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, where in 2006, he received an honorary doctorate.

In 1998, Rolston endowed the “Matthew Rolston Scholarship for Film and Creative Direction,” at ArtCenter. He remains actively involved in this program as a mentor, lecturer and faculty member on the subjects of modern communication techniques, from fashion aesthetics and luxury brand strategies to social impact messaging.

Rolston’s works are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the National Portrait Gallery (Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture at The Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.), among others.

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