Robert Matheson (b. 1978) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans plein air painting, poetry, generative art, and community-based public art projects. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he studied graphic design before spending over a decade in web design and teaching. He began painting en plein air in San Diego in 2012 and later based his practice in Newberry, South Carolina, and Gold Beach, Oregon.
In Newberry, South Carolina, Matheson founded Newberry Made in 2019, a registry of local artists and makers that grew to include more than 200 members, and started the Newberry Photo Group the same year. In April 2021 he began the #Poetree Community Art Project, hanging poetry on a tree in downtown Newberry and inviting the community to add their own, a project that later extended to other South Carolina towns. That October he opened the NFT Museum in Newberry, a space intended to give artists a physical and virtual venue for creating, collaborating on, and exhibiting NFT art, and minted a Genesis NFT to mark its opening.
