Matt Mullican was born in Santa Monica, California. He received the bachelor of fine arts degree at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, and has exhibited his work widely in the U.S. and abroad since the mid-1970s. Solo museum exhibitions of his work have been mounted in Basel, St. Louis, Amsterdam, Brussels, Vienna, Hamburg, Santa Barbara, Washington, D.C., and New York. A retrospective, Mullican Frame, More Details from an Imaginary Universe, was organized by the Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, and circulated to museums in Oxford (U.K.), Barcelona, St. Gall, and Bolzano in 2000 and 2001. His public and corporate commissions may be seen at Akron (Ohio) University; the National Institute for Academic Degrees (NIAD), Tokyo; Schiphol International Airport, Amsterdam; Miyagi University, Japan; Los Angeles Convention Center; University of Houston; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Swiss Bank Corporation, New York; and Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands. He is represented by Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, and Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York.