Matthew Flores
Assistant Professor
Office location
Area(s) of Expertise: Visual Communication, Digital Design, User Experience & User Interface, Typography, Type Design, Motion Graphics, Experimental Design, History of Design
Overview
Matthew Flores is an interdisciplinary artist and designer currently based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the University of North Georgia. His studio practice seeks to bridge the gap between the discourse of design and the discourse of technology in order to articulate how each function as interrelated tools for communication.
He was the 2023-25 Graphic Design Fellow at the University of Tennessee School of Design. Flores was awarded the 2023 Idea Capital Atlanta Creative Grant, a Creative Residency Fellowship at Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, was selected as one of Atlanta Celebrates Photography’s Ones to Watch in 2019, and attended a 2023 Residency at The Luminary in St. Louis, MO. Flores received his MFA in Photography from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in 2019 and his BA in Art History from the School of Visual Studies at the University of Missouri in 2015.
Courses Taught
- 2D Design & Color Theory
- Digital Tools & Techniques
- Introduction to Graphic Communication
- UX/UI Design
- Advanced Typography
Education
- M.F.A., Studio Art, University of Georgia, 2019
- B.A., Art History, University of Missouri, 2015
Noteworthy
- "You're the Man Now, Dog" (solo) Cleo, The Gallery, Savannah, GA 2025
- "NO-Thing", Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY 2025
- "I Require a Tug" (solo) My Friend Sparksburg, Columbia, SC 2023
- "Hands to Work: Toward a Shaker Web Design" | 2026 UAAC-AAUC Conference | Concordia University | Montreal, QC
- "Luddites and Hackers: Technological Resistance in Graphic Design" | SECAC 2025: Flux/Flow | Cincinnati, OH
- "Fuzzy Modes, Clear Communication: Radio as a Process, Tool, and Language for Graphic Design" | Design Incubation Colloquium 10:3 | St. John’s University | New York, NY