I am “the most famous artist” because I create headlines.
2024
Reflective Monolith Found in Desert, Yahoo News UK, June 2024
'Mysterious monolith' found in desert near Vegas: 'HOW did it get up there?’, Detroit Free Press, June 2024
The Most Famous Artist described the New Mexico venue as “Storm King meets Meow Wolf meets Marfa, Artnet, May 2024
Art City Becomes a Reality, Quay County Sun, May 2024
A ‘UFO’-Like Steel Monolith Emerges in the Welsh Countryside, Artnet, March 2024
Mysterious Monolith Appears in the UK, Nightline, March 2024
10-Foot-Tall Monolith Appears In Wales—What We Know About The Mysterious Object, Forbes, March 2024
Welsh Hiker Says Mysterious Monolith on Hillside 'almost looks like a UFO', The Tennessean, March 2024
10-Foot Mysterious Metal Monolith Appears on Remote Hill, Baffling Locals, New York Post, March 2024
Art City Ambitions, Quay County Sun, January 2024
2023
No Hailey Bieber Smoothie at Erewhon Tucumcari, Conscious City Guide, December 2023
In a burn scar on Basalt Mountain, artists mobilize to help restore the landscape, Aspen Public Radio, November 2023
Culture Crush: Art Happenings In London And Beyond This Month, Forbes, October 2023
2022
Meet The NFTY Scene & Creative Industry Summit Web3 Track Speakers, CairoScene, Sept 22
TreeTrunk Releases Powerful Decentralized Platform to Change the NFT Economy for Artists, Collectors and Influencers, BusinessWire, June 2022
11 chill weed dispensaries in L.A. built on social justice and community vibes, LA Times, April 2022
2021
Artists helping with La Plaza project, The Quay County Sun, November 2021
New Murals in Tucumcari, The Quay County Sun, September 2021
Okcoin, Polygon, and The Most Famous Artist Launch First-ever NFT Drop Alongside Token Listing, Korea IT Times, September 2021
Artist behind Utah monolith stunt auctions off video of his own feces as non-fungible token to raise money for autism research, Daily Mail, June 2021
Elon Musk Smoking Cannabis on Joe Rogan Is Now 69 NFTs, Decrypt, April 2021
What is an NFT? Artists weigh in on latest money-making craze, Washington Examiner, April 2021
Return of the monoliths? Alien structure appears on Spanish beach, Metro UK, April 2021
'Complete bullshit': conceptual artist Matty Mo calls out Nifty Gateway after NFT platform pulls plug on sale of his works, ArtNewspaper, March 2021
2020
Say You Want to Build a Monolith, New York Times, December 2020
An artist collective says it is selling monoliths for $45,000, causing speculation that it created the bizarre phenomenon, Business Insider, December 2020
Collective of Artists Claim Responsibility Over Recent Mysterious Monoliths, Hypebeast, December 2020
Monolith-mania Continues as Artists Come Forward to Claim Credit for Sculptures, Hyperallergic, December 2020
Stunt artists take responsibility for mystery monoliths, sell them for $45G, Fox News, December 2020
A Prankster Art Collective Is Claiming Authorship of the Utah Monolith. Now It’s Selling Facsimiles for $45,000, Artnet, December 2020
Stunt artists who claim they're behind the alien monoliths sell new ones for $45,000, Mashable, December 2020
2019
Miley Cyrus Pokes Fun at Her Brief Marriage to Liam Hemsworth After Artist’s Instagram Proposal, US Magazine, December 2019
Miley Cyrus pokes fun at her failed marriage to Liam Hemsworth, Page Six, December 2019
Meet Matty Mo, ‘The Most Famous Artist’ you’ve never heard of, Nightline, September 2019
How Snapchat Is Transforming The Physical World Through Augmented Reality, Forbes, May 2019
You Can Eat A Cheese Sandwich In A Box At This Fyre Festival "Experience" Pop-Up, Nylon, Febuary 2019
You can now get the Fyre Festival experience you never had at Beverly Hills pop-up shop, Metro, January 2019
No smoke without Fyre: A GAS mock experience has been mad, Shemazing, January 2019
A Fyre pop-up mocks real festival with an abrupt cancellation, PageSix, January 2019
An artist has created an installation called 'The Fyre Experience' which allows people to take pictures pretending they're at the failed festival, The Insider, January 2019
Inside Snapchat’s content creator incubator Yellow, Digiday, January 2019
2018
SNS上の“ステータス・セルフィー”を無効化。あの有名アーティストの〈ラグジュアリーセルフィー体験（無料）〉の意図, Heaps, December 2018
Fake it till you make it! Instagram users flock to pose in LA art installation that looks just like the interior of a lavish private jet, Daily Mail, November 2018
People in LA are taking Instagram photos inside a 'private jet' which is actually just a fake interior inside a store, The Insider, November 2018
The Private Jet Experience By The Most Famous Artist And SelfieCircus, Forbes, November 2018
The new ‘Private Jet Experience’ in LA is a fake replica of a Gulfstream G3 designed just for taking selfies, The Sun, November 2018
An artwork created by artificial intelligence sold for 45 times more than estimated, Mashable, October 2018
What 10 influencers and artists have to say about Instagram’s co-founders quitting, Vox, September 2018
Meet SelfieCircus and 8 more in Snapchat’s new startup accelerator, TechCruch, September 2018
So You Want to Sell Your Art? Here Are 6 Online Platforms Looking to Help Emerging Artists Make a Buck, Artnet, July 2018
Ariana Grande Unveils Rainbow Mural in Los Angeles, Billboard, May 2018
7 Cool Walls In Los Angeles To Take Pics In Front Of, If Your Insta Needs Inspo, EliteDaily, February 2018
2017
State of the Culture, II: From Post-Internet Art to Influencer Art to… Mystery Art, artnet, December 2017
The Most Famous Artist at Sotheby's Institute of Art, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, October 2017
The World’s First Album Composed and Produced by an AI Has Been Unveiled, Futurism, August 2017
Amazon’s big blue bug of justice hits San Diego with The Tick Takeover!, SuperHeroHype, July 2017
How to Become The Most Famous Artist, Tech Open Air, July 2017
Through Data Analysis and Intuition, The Most Famous Artist Proved Selling Art is Similar to Running a Startup, Heaps Magazine Japan, June 2017
“The Most Famous Artist” Designed Nomadica’s Rose Wine Cans, Food Republic, June 2017
Artist ironically uses AI to make portraits of people with jobs likely displaced by AI, Mashable, June 2017
The Most Famous Artist: Art Meets AI, Forbes, June 2017
Are They a Public Work of Art? An Eyesore? A Statement About Urban Development? Or a Marketing Stunt?, New York Times, June 2016
People Are Going Wild for These Hot Pink Houses on Instagram, TIME, June 2016
Millennial Pink Houses Are Taking Over One Neighborhood in Los Angeles and It’s All for Instagram, Teen Vogue, June 2017
This L.A. Neighbourhood Has Committed To Pink Houses Because #Instagram, Elle Australia, June 2017
Before Demolition, 3 Homes Painted Shocking Pink in Mid-City Art Project, KTLA, June 2017
Three Mid-City Houses Painted Hot Pink By Local Architecture Firm, Curbed, June 2017
Why This Dude Is Publishing Your Nude Snapchats, Cosmopolitan, March 2017
2016
This Kanye West-Inspired Art Gallery Is An Epic Shrine To Yeezy, EliteDaily, November 2016
‘Kanye Loves Kanye’: A Strange L.A. Art Exhibition Worshipping Kanye West, DailyBeast, October 2016
The Most Famous Artist is Dominating the Interwebs, ArtZealous, September 2016
SEE IT: French bulldog Chloe the Mini Frenchie creates self-portrait with help from the Most Famous Artist, Daily News, August 2016
This Dog Painted Herself With Her Own Four Paws, BuzzFeed, August 2016
The ‘Most Famous Artist’ Is F*cking With The Art World, And It’s Awesome, Uproxx, July 2016
These Identical Twins Are Going to Make $8,000 Selling Art Made With Their Butts, NextShark, July 2016
Guy Tricks Gallery Into Believing Cash Bricks Are Works Of Art, EliteDaily, May 2016
The Kaplan Twins: These Sisters ‘Sleep’ With Superhero Toys and Sell Them for $333 on Instagram, NextShark, April 2016
Meet the Man Selling Bundles of Cash on Instagram and Calling It Art, Digital Trends, April 2016
This Artist Sells Money as Art - 100,000 for 5,000 Dollars?, WideWalls, April 2016
This Man Made $50,000 Over the Weekend Selling Stacks of Cash on Instagram, NextShark, April 2016
This Guy Calls Himself The Most Famous Artist And We Spent Two Days With Him, Buzzfeed, March 2016
Best Instagrammable Street Art, Los Angeles Magazine, March 2016
Who is The Most Famous Artist? Contributing to a Discussion on Meaning in Art, WideWalls, March 2016
Matty Mo, AKA The Most Famous Artist, Paints Uber-Popular Selfie Backdrops All Over L.A., Los Angeles Magazine, February 2016
2015
The Most Head-Turning Outfits At Art Basel 2015, HuffPost, December 2015
Get to know the Gucci-approved Instagram artist, Dazed, October 2015
Exclusive: Gucci Collaborates With Artists on an Instagram Initiative, Vogue, October 2015
Venice Ales House and Bumble App Team Up!, Groomed LA, June 2015
2014
Downtown Los Angeles Bohemian Style with The Most Famous Artist, Hayo, November 2014
2013
Science Inc Names 500 Startups Matt Monahan as VP Social Media Marketing, TechZulu, December 2013
The Tolstoy of Tech Bros, The Federalist, November 2013
Data Brokers Don't Know You From A Naked Man Stumbling On The Beach, Forbes, August 2013
Drunk, Naked AlphaBoost Founder Matt Monahan Is Currently Trying to Sell His Company, Observer, February 2013
2011
These Stanford Students Made Millions Taking A Class About Facebook, Business Insider, May 2011
The Class That Built Apps, and Fortunes, NY Times, May 2011
2007
Stanford Facebook Class, NBC11, December, 2007
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