Matthew Couper (b. 1976, Aotearoa / New Zealand) is an artist based in the USA after immigrating in 2010. His practice over the past decade has appropriated aspects of western Art History including Trecento, Quattrocento and the Baroque. His work skews established narrative traditions of Spanish Colonial painting to discuss the space between religion, politics and environmental issues. Huffington Post art critic John Seed referred to Couper as an ‘artist with a Kafkaesque view of the world’ whose imagery focuses on worldwide water issues.

He exhibits in the USA at Room Artspace, Brooklyn, NY; La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; France at Galerie Gimpel+Muller / Espace Délire, Paris and New Zealand at PAULNACHE.