Matthew Poole is a curator and writer living and working in Los Angeles, California. His practice involves producing exhibitions, publishing artists’ projects, writing on topics related to the relations of production and distribution of art, and teaching. Poole is a professor of art history and theory in the Department of Art & Design at California State University, San Bernardino. In 2022-23 and 2023-24 he is seconded as the Interim Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at CSUSB, and from 2015-2021 he was Chair of the Department of Art & Design at CSUSB. Prior to moving to California in 2012, Poole was a faculty member in the Department of Art History & Philosophy at The University of Essex, Colchester, UK, where he ran the post-graduate curatorial programs.
Matthew Poole is a curator and writer living and working in Los Angeles, California. His practice involves producing exhibitions, publishing artists’ projects, writing on topics related to the relations of production and distribution of art, and teaching. Poole is a professor of art history and theory in the Department of Art & Design at California State University, San Bernardino. In 2022-23 and 2023-24 he is seconded as the Interim Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at CSUSB, and from 2015-2021 he was Chair of the Department of Art & Design at CSUSB. Prior to moving to California in 2012, Poole was a faculty member in the Department of Art History & Philosophy at The University of Essex, Colchester, UK, where he ran the post-graduate curatorial programs.