Mat Collishaw (b. 1966, Nottingham) is a British artist and a key figure among the Young British Artists who emerged from Goldsmiths in the late 1980s; he showed in Damien Hirst’s landmark Freeze exhibition in 1988 and has exhibited internationally ever since. 
Working across photography, moving image and installation, Collishaw often pairs art-historical imagery with contemporary technology to question how spectacle, desire and morality are constructed in visual culture. 
Signature works include Bullet Hole (1988), a multi-panel lightbox first presented at Freeze; the stroboscopic zoetrope All Things Fall (2014); the immersive VR project Thresholds (2017), which restaged Fox Talbot’s 1839 photography show; and The Mask of Youth (2018), a digital portrait responding to the Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I at the Queen’s House, Greenwich.