About Yvette Mattern
Yvette Mattern was an American painter.
Yvette Mattern (born San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a New York and Berlin based visual artist whose work has an emphasis on video and film, which frequently intersects performance, public art and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited internationally. It was also featured in Toronto, Ontario for Nuit Blanche in 2014.
Personal life
Yvette Mattern is married to Georg Polke, son of German Painter Sigmar Polke (2014–present). Yvette Mattern has one son, Maximilian Mattern-Knuesel and three step-children with Georg Polke. She lives between Berlin, Germany and the United States.
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Puerto Rican visual artist
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Yvette Mattern was a painter.
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