Adam Matano is a professional artist and educator specializing in figurative sculpture. He studied at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Connecticut, receiving a BFA in sculpture. Although his main training was in the human figure, he has always had a special love for animals, which inspired him to apply his knowledge of the human figure to sculpting the animal form. Matano's work has most recently been shown at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles. Currently, he works and lives in Los Angeles, exhibiting his sculptures and teaching both figurative and animal sculpture. Matano is a Signature Member of the Society of Animal Artists, an Elected Member of the National Sculpture Society, and a Signature Artist Member of the California Art Club.

Group Exhibitions

2022   Artists choice Exhibition, American Legacy Fine Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA

Beverly Hills Art show, Beverly Hills, CA

California Art Club 111 Gold Medal Show, Bowers Museum, CA

Artist Lecture.  Nature Artists' Guild, online.

2021   Lucid Dreaming Exhibition.  Copro gallery, Santa Monica, CA

California Art Club 110 Gold Medal Show, Hilbert Museum, CA

Online Sculpture Demonstration.  Rhythm of form.  California Art club

Blood and Fire III Exhibition.  Ravens and wolves, Long Beach, CA

2020   Midnight Garden exhibition.  Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA

California Art Club 109 Gold Medal Show, Hilbert Museum, CA

Reh’s Contemporary, Manhattan NYC, NY.

Contemporary California Sculpture, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA

2019   LCAD Faculty Show, “Searching For The Real III” Laguna, CA

California Sculpture: Works From Southern and Northern California NSS Gallery Manhattan, New York

Birds In Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Wausau, WI

Emerging Stars In American Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, SC

California Art Club 108 Gold Medal Show, Pasadena Museum of California Art

The Art Of Animal Sculpture, Bonita Museum San Diego, CA

2018   Art Renewal Center 13th Annual Exhibition, Sotheby’s Los Angeles CA

American Legacy Fine Art, A Collectors Feast, Pasadena CA

LAAFA Faculty Exhibition, Rebecca Molayem Gallery, Hollywood CA

California Art Club 107 Gold Medal Show, Natural History Museum, Los Angels, CA

LCAD Faculty Show, “Searching For The Real II” Laguna, CA

2017   California Art Club 106 Gold Medal Show, Autry Museum, CA.

National Sculpture Society Group Show. Sparks Gallery, San Diego.

Brentwood Art Center Faculty Art Show. Santa Monica, CA.

2016   SD Contemporary Art Fair. “A Spectrum Art Show”. San Diego, CA.

Brentwood Art Center Faculty Art Show. Santa Monica, CA.

-California Art Club 105 Gold Medal Show. Autry Museum, CA.

2015   Brentwood Art Center Faculty Show. Santa Monica, CA.

“All Creatures Great and Small”. National Sculpture Society. Naples, FL.

2014   Harmony Project silent auction. Santa Monica, CA.

“Sudden Impact”.  11:11 ACC Gallery, Tarzana, CA.

2013   “The Animal Kingdom”. Nucleus Gallery. Los Angeles, CA.

 Press and Publications

2023   Fine Art Connoisseur Magazie, https://fineartconnoisseur.com/2023/11/20th-anniversary-for-american-legacy-fine-arts/

2022   https://beverlypress.com/2022/10/beverly-hills-art-show-announces- winners/

2020   Forbes, “Taking Fight” Showcase,

https://www.forbes.com/sites/natashagural/2020/09/10/hyperreal-to-otherworldly-new-york-city-gallery-partners-with-american-bird-conservancy-to-reopen-for-socially-distanced-charity-exhibition/?sh=1060e463a434

Gold Medal CAC, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine TBA

“Mending With Other Species, interview with Adam Matano”;

https://beautifulbizarre.net/2020/03/19/interview-animal-sculptor-adam-matano/

2019   Fine Art Connoisseur Oct 2019, Page 97

2018   American Legacy Fine Art, American Art Collector, Nov 2018

2017   California Art Club Artist profile Fall issue.

“National Sculpture Society Sparks Gallery”, Pacifico Magazine, San Diego, CA.

2015   “Zoo Sketchbook”, Zoo View Summer Issue page 14, Los Angeles Zoo.

2013   “Adam Matano’s Animal Sculptures” Art Design Catalog Spain, http://www.catalogodiseno.com/2013/12/31/estudio-adam-matano-y-sus-esculturas-animales/

2012   “Head First, A New Generation of Figurative Sculptors” Sculpture Review Winter 2012 pages 8-17.  National Sculpture Society.

2011   “Humor in Sculpture” Sculpture Review Fall pages 21-23 National

Sculpture Society.

2010  “Connecticut’s Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Trains a New

Generation of Artists” Artes Magazine June 13, 2010.

“Roundtable-Three professionals. One Question” Artscope

Magazine May/June 2010.

2009   “Sculpture Competition Awards Announced." American Artist Oct.