Mateo Galvano (b.1964) was born in New York, and formerly a longtime resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, currently resides in Athens, Ohio.

His work is included in numerous private collections in the United States and Europe. A self-educated artist, he is a frequent participant in group exhibitions throughout the United States.

“When I work I become witness to a quiet and passionate sense of perception in which marks on the canvas can travel or speak and colors can conjure revelations. I expect to excite in the viewer a memory of soul, to tell without word or symbol an inchoate and benevolent language, a song. I paint to recall the future, to contribute to evolution by experiencing something discrete as a particle in the vast human sea.”