Matt DesLauriers

Matt DesLauriers is a Toronto-born artist based in London who makes his work by writing software. He studied film and media at Queen's University and has written code since his teens. Before his Art Blocks releases he made interactive installations, one of them shown at the Louvre in 2016. He also publishes open source tools such as canvas-sketch, which he uses to make his own work.

Subscapes, his first Art Blocks project, came out in 2021: landscapes drawn by one algorithm from a single seed per token. Meridian followed that September with 1,000 stratified landforms built from small strokes of colour, and a quarter of its primary sales went to the Processing Foundation. Vetro Editions later published a book on the series, designed by monopo London. Pieces from both series have appeared in Sotheby's sales.

Bright Moments gave FOLIO a solo show in London in 2022. In Filigree (2024), shown by The Disruptive Gallery, AI image models only supply colour and tone while his own code sets the composition. He also draws with pen plotters, and his hachure plots appeared at Paris Photo in 2023. Sales of the open source Bitframes fund Generative, a documentary on the history of generative art.

His work has been shown at Kunsthalle Zürich, MoCA Taipei, Phillips in London and the V&A. LACMA received Meridian #547 in 2023 as part of a gift from the collector Cozomo de' Medici, and in 2026 he gave the V&A prints of two more Meridian works. In 2021 he made Wayfinder, a generative poetry game, with the National Film Board of Canada.