Matías Roth

Matías Roth (b. 1978, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a visual artist and curator, dedicated to photography and cultural productions and programs that have traveled to numerous New York venues, including the Point of Contact Gallery and the New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, among others. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), and has produced the projects Gabinete de Libros de Artista at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Argentina, as well as Postales de Estiba at Museo AGP; and the Stand Argentino. In 2024, he curated the Point of Contact exhibit, Libro de Artista, for the first showing of the National Museum’s artist books collection in the United States.

Afterlife (2025) by Matías Roth is an accordion artist book combining digital photography and images with colored text that was exhibited at the Syracuse University Art Museum during Point of Contact’s Cruel April poetry reading by Mexican American poet, Diana Marie Delgado. His book was inspired by Delgado’s poem Afterlife. Syracuse-based Chicanx artist and printmaker, Carrie Valenzuela, was the bookbinder and collaborator in the creation of this artist book, printing and hand-assembling the piece with a hard cover and recessed panels.

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You may also want to explore Límites Invisibles, by Matías Roth, (available through Punto Shop) a photographic essay on the world's underground systems presenting a new thesis on utopian urbanism, a possibility to blur boundaries and map a vast, global city where inhabitants unite in a psychological and spiritual nation, a realm where human beings connect through love, solitude, youth, beauty, exhaustion, and rebirth. It is the constant state of being in each new day.