Matthew Leifheit is an American photographer, magazine editor, and professor based in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and the Yale School of Art, Leifheit is Editor-in-Chief of MATTE Magazine, the journal of emerging photography he has published since 2010. Leifheit’s photographs have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Aperture, TIME, and Artforum, and have been exhibited internationally. His work has been supported by residencies at the Corporation of Yaddo and The Watermill Center, receiving grants from the New York State Cultural Council and the Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale, where he was awarded the Richard Benson Prize in 2017. He is currently full-time faculty at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.

Gay Archive was presented at Union College Crowell and West Galleries and at Massachusetts College of Art and Design‘s Brant Gallery in the fall of 2024. “Matthew Leifheit: Gay Chorus” will be on view at REVERB Gallery in Tampa, Florida through February 14th. Selections from Leifheit’s Gay Archive work will also be included in the Griffin Museum of Photography‘s upcoming exhibition “Nuclear Family,” on view January 17th—March 30th 2025.