Rene Matić (b. 1997, Peterborough, UK) is a London-based artist and writer whose practice spans across photography, film, and sculpture, converging in a meeting place they describe as "rude(ness)" - an evidencing and honouring of the in-between.

Recent solo exhibitions include Turner Prize 2025, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, UK (2025); Idols Lovers Mothers Friends, Arcadia Missa, London, UK (2025); AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH, CCA Berlin, Berlin, DE (2024); Rene Matić/Oscar Murillo JAZZ, Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Vienna, AT (2024); a girl for the living room, Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol, UK (2023); upon this rock, Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna, AT (2023), upon this rock, South London Gallery, London, UK (2022), soul time, Studio Voltaire, London UK (2022), flags for countries that don’t exist but bodies that do, Arcadia Missa, London, UK (2021).

Recent group exhibitions include Deutsche Börse Foundation Prize 2026, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK (2026); Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2024); After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989 – 2024, Hayward Gallery, Touring show, UK (2024); Coventry Biennial, UK (2023), Divided Selves: Legacies, Memories, Belonging, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, UK (2023); Arcadia, Bold Tendencies, London, UK (2021); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London, UK (2021) and Friends and Friends of Friends, Schlossmuseum, Linz, AT (2020).

Matić’s works are in several prominent collections including Tate, London (UK); Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris (FR); UK Government Art Collection, London (UK); Arts Council Collection, London (UK); South London Gallery, London (UK); Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (UK); Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol (UK); University Arts London Collection, London (UK) Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York (USA); Deutsche Bank Collection, Berlin, (DE).

Rene Matić was shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2025.

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Photo Courtesy the Artist and Arcadia Missa, London.