Rene Matić

Rene Matić is an artist based in London. Their practice encompasses photography, film, and installation, engaging with subcultures, identity, faith, family, and the liminal spaces of Britishness. In 2025, they were nominated for the Turner Prize.

Early life and education

Matić was born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire to an English mother and an English-born Irish-Saint Lucian father. Matić graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2020.

Selected work and exhibitions

Matić’s photographic series flags for countries that don’t exist but bodies that do weaves together intimate portraits, political ephemera, and club culture as a site of queered identity and resistance.
Solo and duo exhibitions include upon this rock at South London Gallery, which featured sculptural work, film about the artist’s father, and photography exploring British skinhead subculture and diasporic family history.

Awards

They are nominated for the 2025 Turner Prize and were awarded the Spirit Now London Acquisition Prize at Frieze Art Fair London, with works acquired by The Hepworth Wakefield permanent collection. Matić is the second-youngest artist to be nominated for the Turner Prize.