Rene Matić is an artist whose practice spans across photography, film, sculpture, textile, sound and writing. Matić tenderly documents the lives that populate their community and the persistence of perpetual love in unrequited places. Their work converges in a meeting place they describe as “rude(ness)” - an evidencing and honoring of the in-between. Matić draws inspiration from dance and music movements such as Northern soul, Ska, and 2-Tone as a tool to delve into the complex relationship between West Indian and white working-class culture in Britain, while privileging queer/ing intimacies, partnerships and pleasure as modes of survival.

Rene Matić (b. 1997, Peterborough, UK) lives and works in London, UK. They have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2025, nominated for their recent solo exhibition As Opposed to the Truth at CCA Berlin. The Turner Prize exhibition will open in September 2025 at Cartwright Hall, Bradford, UK. They have also had solo and two-person exhibitions at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Chapter NY, New York; Arcadia Missa, London; Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol; Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna; South London Gallery, London; Studio Voltaire, London; Quench Gallery, Margate; VITRINE Gallery, London; among others. Their work was included in the Coventry Biennial 2023, Coventry and Warwickshire; and group exhibitions at Tate Britain, London, UK; Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York; Two Temple Place, London; The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery, Rossendale; Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry; High Art Arles, Arles; Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK; The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK; Hayward Gallery, London; The Hepworth, Wakefield, UK; bold Tendencies, London; Schlossmuseum, Linz; Saatchi Gallery, London; and Black Cultural Archives, London among others.