Matt Lodder

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Matthew C. Lodder (born 1980) is a British senior lecturer in art history and theory, director of American studies and a tattoo expert at the University of Essex. He is also a exhibition curatorLindsey Skinner: Video: Guest curator Dr Matt Lodder introduces British Tattoo Art Revealed and one of the University of Essex's Public Voice Scholars. Lodder completed his PhD in 2010, having submitted a thesis entitled Body Art: Body Modification as Artistic Practice. Body Art: Body Modification as Artistic Practice academia.edu

• Alexa MacDermot (editor), Kathrina Rupit, Matt Lodder: Goblin Market: Irish New Contemporary Art. White Lady Art Books 2012,
• Al Overdrive (author,inset photographer), Matt Lodder (author of introduction): No Commercial Value: The Photography of Al Overdrive. AO 2008,
• Matt Lodder (author): Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos. HarperCollins Publishers 2022,
• Matt Lodder (author): Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings. HarperCollins Publishers 2023, ISBN
• Matt Lodder (author): Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art.Yale University Press 2024,
• Matt Lodder (co-author): Manfred Kohrs: Vorlagenalbum des Tätowierers Horst "Tattoo-Samy" Streckenbach. IKARUS, Wedemark 2024,

• Lodder, M., (2016). Visual pleasure and gonzo pornography: Mason’s challenge to convention in ‘the hardest of hardcore’. Porn Studies. 3 (4), 373-385
• Dymock, A. and Lodder, M., (2016). 'The Erotics of Injury: Remembering Operation Spanner Workshops', 10&11 September 2015, University of Essex and Royal Holloway, University of London. Porn Studies. 3 (3), 320-323
• Lodder, M., (2015). ‘Things of the sea’: iconographic continuities between tattooing and handicrafts in Georgian-era maritime culture. Sculpture Journal. 24 (2), 195-210
• Lodder, M., (2013). Art History in the Pub. Journal of Visual Culture. 12 (2), 332-338

• British Tattoo Art Revealed, described as a "visionary exhibition" by anthropologist and tattoo researcher Lars Krutak, began at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in March 2017 and toured nationwide through 2020.
• Skin Digging, Art Exchange/University of Essex

• Helen Lewis: Will a tattoo ever hang in the Louvre? - Meet the unconventional art historians trying to discover what it means for an image to be marked on the body. New Statesman: Interview with Gemma Angel and Matt Lodder.
• Experience: I tracked down my impostor The Guardian - 26 March 2021
• Nihal Arthanayake: Dr Matt Lodder: ‘We live in a world where we’re represented to the world as little avatars’ BBC Radio 5 live
• The art of museums. Episode 4, Paris : Musée d‘Orsay University of Wisconsin–Madison.