Matthew Boonstra

Matthew Boonstra is an artist and educator based in Illinois. He has exhibited his work at the International Sculpture Center Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ; Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, MI; Goldman-Kuenz Sculpture Park at Cedarhurst Center of the Arts in Mt. Vernon, IL; Mainsite Contemporary in Norman, OK; Universidade do Estado Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil, among others. He has received numerous artistic awards and distinctions including the Visual Arts Fellowship from the Illinois Art Council Agency and Oklahoma Visual Art Coalition; Swope Award of Distinction from the Swope Art Museum; and publication in Sculpture Magazine. Boonstra holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Eastern Michigan University and a Master of Fine Arts from Michigan State University. Boonstra is currently an Associate Professor of Art - Sculpture at Eastern Illinois University.