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Matt Sesow (b. 1966, Omaha, Nebraska) is a self-taught Washington, DC expressionist painter who has sold over 17,000 original works to collectors in 40+ countries since 1994. A childhood airplane accident that claimed his left hand became the foundational influence on decades of daily painting. He was among the first artists to sell paintings online.
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Matt Sesow (b. 1966, Omaha, Nebraska) is a self-taught expressionist painter based in Washington, DC, who has sold over 17,000 original works to collectors in more than 40 countries since 1994. At age eight, he was struck by a landing airplane in rural Nebraska, losing his dominant left hand — an event that became the foundational influence on his art. Sesow was among the first artists worldwide to sell paintings online (1995), documented in a 1997 John Wiley & Sons book cataloged by the Library of Congress. His year-long solo exhibition "Shock and Awe" at the American Visionary Art Museum (2016–17) led to 26 paintings entering AVAM's permanent collection. In 2013, his painting "Dive Bomb" was selected for a United Nations postage stamp. His 2021 retrospective at Old Dominion University displayed 168 works alongside 13 original Basquiats. He paints and ships original works daily from his studio at 916 G Street NW, Washington, DC.
