Matt Joynt (b. 1983) is a Chicago-based composer, artist and political activist whose work engages the multivalent political histories of sound, sonic archives, and sound as site. His composition projects for film have premiered at Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, IFC New York, SXSW Film Festival, and The Gene Siskel Film Center and have been featured extensively in media work for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and PBS Independent Lens. Collaborative projects - as a member of InCUBATE and with Josh Rios and Anthony Romero as Sonic Insurgency Research Group - have been exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Pulitzer Art Foundation, Smart Museum of Art, ICA Boston, The National Music Centre in Calgary, Luminary Arts in St. Louis, Autzen Gallery at Portland State University, the Devos Museum at Northern Michigan University, Center for Book and Paper Arts, The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and VPAM in Los Angeles.

He won a 2017 Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches: Current News Award for his work on The Fight for Falluja with The New York Times and a 2020 Emmy for Outstanding Feature Story in a Newscast for his work on The Gallagher Effect with The New York Times. In 2019, he was shortlisted for an Oscar for the documentary Fire in Paradise.

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b. 1983
Chicago, IL

Northwestern University
Art History Cum Laude

VIEW “first in thought, then in action” — new sculpture with Anthony Romero, Zumix & residents of East Boston as part of
When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art - ICA Boston (Oct 23, 2019 — Jan 26, 2020)

WATCH Fire In Paradise - Documentary film score, Netflix (November 1, 2019)

READ “The Siren and Social Space: An Essay in Fourteen Stanza”, written with Josh Rios, ON Journal, Issue No. 3: Rules