Matthew Buckingham (born 1963, Nevada) utilises photography, film, video, sound, text and drawing to question the role that social memory plays in contemporary life. He is well-known for his thoughtful and poetic work, which investigates historical figures and events.

In 2007 Film and Video Umbrella worked with Matthew Buckingham on ‘The Spirit and the Letter’. This commission was a looped video installation, which toured to Camden Arts Centre, London and Dundee Contemporary Arts. ‘The Spirit and the Letter’ was exemplary of the artist’s interest in history, portraying the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and imbuing the space it was exhibited in with an uncanny resonance.

Buckingham’s work has gained an international standing, and has been seen in one-person and group exhibitions at ARC / Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MOMA New York; The Whitechapel Gallery, London and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He was a 2003 recipient of the DAAD Artist in Berlin Fellowship. The artist is represented by Murray Guy, New York and Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf and Berlin.