Biography

Daniel Matthew York is an American painter based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Influenced by hundreds of years of art by his personal favorites like the classic masters Titian & Van Eyck to more contemporary painters such as Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin, he paints his current works that he calls Delusionism which he explains, “I just want to snap you out of your day for a minute, maybe I’ll give you a laugh, and maybe you’ll write me a check.” On his subject matter he states, “I spent many years trying to force my style, what I am as an artist, but no matter what I painted it came out that way.  At some point I just stopped fighting it and accepted what I do. Now, I just try to make myself laugh.”

Born in 1978 in Libertyville, Illinois, to parents Daniel Lee York and June Dianne York he was raised in the far north-west suburb of Chicago, Round Lake Beach.