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Matt Vegh is one of Canada's top selling living contemporary artists. In 2019 he sold nearly half as many original works of art as the entire Canadian Auction catalogue of all of the major auction houses combined. He is also the first Canadian in history to obtain a Chinese green card in the city of Chengdu; which is the largest metropolis in Western China and home to his art studio and gallery. His work is so popular because it is perhaps the only completely new form or "house" of art in the abstract genre this century. A late starter, he only began painting in the summer of 2015. His oil and metallic acrylics on layered traditional Chinese ink wash paper process, which he created in his Chengdu studio, achieves a finish unlike any other painting in today's art world. After just one year of painting, he was invited by the Dean of Sichuan University's Art Department to mentor Masters and Ph.D students in the experimental arts. He has held numerous international exhibitions and is a 3 time winner of the Golden Panda International Design Excellence Award, sponsored by iF Germany. Matt Vegh, along with his son Nathaniel Vegh created the world's first AI Perpetual Painter that was modeled on a single source and proprietary dataset, and which was unveiled in an experiential mini-theater at the Chengdu International Creativity and Design Week in late 2019. He consistently sells over 100 original works of art each year, to collectors from all continents. He is particularly well-known for his unique mosaics, "Four Seasons" abstracts, floral abstracts and totems. His paintings achieve price points comparable to over 42% of Canada's most well-known "collectible" (deceased) artists according to the latest auction statistics; an astonishing number for a living artist by any measure.

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