Matt Lipps (b. 1975) received his MFA from University of California, Irvine in 2004. His work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Saatchi Collection, The Pilara Foundation Collection/Pier 24, San Francisco, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ, among others. He lives and works in Los Angeles.