Mathias Malling Mortensen (b. 1980) is a self-taught visual artist working with painting, paper cuts and graphics in an intuitive, minimalistic and non-figurative style. He has developed a signature style of ‘cut-out’ image production by blending elements of painting and collage with a sculptural approach towards the pictorial plane. Often working with vibrant monochromatic colour fields and layered sections of paper or canvas, Mortensen explores how colour, texture and negative space can be manipulated to produce enigmatic and suggestive compositions. His work is grounded in a long-term project of spatial research.

Mortensen lives and works in Copenhagen (DK).