Matthew Hoffman

Matthew Hoffman is a Chicago-based artist & designer whose public works have been exhibited internationally. His work has been included in Good, the New York Times Magazine, and Ready Made. He has been published by Gestalten, Droog, and Taschen, and was featured in a segment on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Matthew has created large-scale public installations for the City of Chicago, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Albright Knox Gallery, as well as companies like Apple, Facebook, Zappos, & Cards Against Humanity. There are close to 30 of his outdoor installations currently up in the Chicagoland area. Matthew is the custodian of You Are Beautiful (YAB), a project to better the world in little ways. Its message has reached every corner of the globe, with over 5 million YAB stickers shared. Outside of large public works, YAB creates art & design edition objects available directly through the YAB online shop and the Avondale storefront, as well as museum stores such as LACMA, MASS MoCA, and UncommonGoods.