Matthew Kamholtz was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1953 and graduated from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1974 with a degree in Music and Philosophy. He graduated from Boston University School of Law in 1982. He began to seriously study photography in 2007 when he attended a workshop with David Harvey. Since then, has participated in workshops with photographers working in the broad documentary tradition, including Nikos Economopoulos, Jeff Jacobson, Stella Johnson, Constantine Manos, and Alex and Rebecca Webb.
His work has been exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Danforth Museum, Minneapolis Photo Center, PhotoPlace Gallery, Praxis Gallery, Rockport Art Museum, the Photographic Resource Center of Boston, the 20/20 Photo Festival of Philadelphia, and Norfolk State University, among other venues.
In 2019, he was awarded a finalist grant by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. In 2021, his self-published book, On Screen, was exhibited at the Davis Orton Gallery and the Griffin Museum of Photography. In 2023, he was a semi-finalist in the 97th Annual International Competition at the Print Center in Philadelphia.
