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Matthew C. Lodder (born 1980) is a British senior lecturer in art history and theory, director of American studies and an expert in the history of tattooing at the University of Essex.[1] He is also a exhibition curator[2][3] and one of the University of Essex’s Public Voice Scholars.[4] Lodder completed his PhD in 2010, having submitted a thesis entitled Body Art: Body Modification as Artistic Practice.[5] Lodder is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[6]

In 2018, Lodder served as the presenter of ‘Art of Museums’ for German TV channel ZDF.[7]

Lodder’s podcast ‘Beneath the Skin’ was awarded “Best History Podcast” at the Independent Podcast Awards 2023. [8]

In 2021, he explained to the Guardian how a student in California had impersonated him for years, stealing his academic work and even copying his tattoos. [9]

Selected works

Books

  • Matt Lodder (author): Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art.Yale University Press 2024, ISBN 0-3002-6939-0[10][11][12]
  • Matt Lodder (author): Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos. HarperCollins Publishers 2022, ISBN 978-0-0084-0206-8
  • Matt Lodder (author): Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings. HarperCollins Publishers 2023, ISBN ISBN 978-0-0084-0210-5[13]
  • Lepine, A., Lodder, M. and McKever, R., (eds.) (2015). Revival: Memories, Identities, Utopias. The Courtauld Institute of Art. ISBN 978-1-907485-04-6


Book Sections

  • Matt Lodder: Hans and “Lady Tattoo Artist” Jessie Knight. In: Manfred Kohrs, Ole Wittmann (Publ.): From the Living Room to Far-off Lands – Tattoo Culture in the Mid-20th Century. IDTG, Wedemark 2025, ISBN 978-3-00-076184-3 (german and english)
  • Matt Lodder (co-author): Manfred Kohrs: Vorlagenalbum des Tätowierers Horst “Tattoo-Samy” Streckenbach. IKARUS, Wedemark 2024, ISBN 3-00-076502-6
  • Alexa MacDermot (editor), Kathrina Rupit, Matt Lodder: Goblin Market: Irish New Contemporary Art. White Lady Art Books 2012, ISBN 978-0-9573-2230-1
  • Matt Lodder (2022) ‘Mr Sebastian’s Tattooing and Piercing in the context of Operation Spanner’. In Alan Oversby: Documentary Evidence. Editor: King, Paul. Body Piercing Archive. ISBN 978-0-578-36480-3
  • Matt Lodder, (2022). ‘A Medium, Not a Phenomenon: An Argument for an Art-Historical Approach to Western Tattooing’. In: Tattooed Bodies: Theorizing Body Inscription Across Disciplines and Cultures. Editors: Martell, J. and Larsen, E., . Palgrave Macmillan. 13- 42. ISBN 978-3-030-86565-8
  • Matt Lodder (2022). ‘”Geijutsu-tekina” Nihon no irezumi to vuikutoria asa Ingurando no shogyo senryaku’ (‘”Artistic” Japanese Tattoos and Commercial Strategy in Victorian England’), trans. Naho Onuki. In: 身体を彫る、世界を印す イレズミ・タトゥーの人類学 (Sculpting the Body, Marking the World: The Anthropology of Irezumi Tattoo). Editors: Yamamoto, Y., Kuwabara, M. and Tsumura, F., . Shunpusha. ISBN 9784861108037
  • Matt Lodder (2015). “The New Old Style: Tradition, Archetype and Rhetoric in Contemporary Western Tattooing”. In: Revival: Memories, Identities, Utopias. Editors: Lepine, A., Lodder, M. and McKever, R., . The Courtauld Institute of Art. ISBN 978-1-907485-04-6
  • Matt Lodder (2015). Various artist interviews. In: World Atlas of Tattoo. Editors: Friedman, A. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-30021-04-84
  • Matt Lodder (2015). “From Paper onto Skin”. In: Tattoo Masters Flash Collection: Selected Styles Around the World. Editors: Reuss, M. and Hoill, E. Editions Reuss. ISBN 978-394310-53-08
  • Matt Lodder(2013). “Neo-Victorian Tattooing”. In: Victoriana A Miscellany… (ex. cat.) ISBN 978-190279-51-57
  • Matt Lodder, (2012). Foreword. In: Forever The New Tattoo. Editors: Klanten, R. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 978-389955-44-27
  • Matt Lodder (2009). “A Somatechnological Paradigm: How do you Make Yourself a Body without Organs?”. In: Somatechnics: Queering the Technologisation of Bodies. Editors: Sullivan, N. and Murray, S. Ashgate. 187- 206. ISBN 9780754675303
  • Al Overdrive (author,inset photographer), Matt Lodder (author of introduction): No Commercial Value: The Photography of Al Overdrive. AO 2008, ISBN 978-0-9558-6710-1

Journal articles

  • Lodder, M., (2016). Visual pleasure and gonzo pornography: Mason’s challenge to convention in ‘the hardest of hardcore’. Porn Studies. 3 (4), 373-385
  • Dymock, A. and Lodder, M., (2016). ‘The Erotics of Injury: Remembering Operation Spanner Workshops’, 10&11 September 2015, University of Essex and Royal Holloway, University of London. Porn Studies. 3 (3), 320-323
  • Lodder, M., (2015). ‘Things of the sea’: iconographic continuities between tattooing and handicrafts in Georgian-era maritime culture. Sculpture Journal. 24 (2), 195-210
  • Lodder, M., (2013). Art History in the Pub. Journal of Visual Culture. 12 (2), 332-338

Exhibitions

References

  1. ^ Cawley, Laurence (3 February 2014). “People always say the same thing about tattoos”. BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
  2. ^ Lindsey Skinner: Video: Guest curator Dr Matt Lodder introduces British Tattoo Art Revealed
  3. ^ a b Betts, Hannah (16 March 2017). “Move over Angelina Jolie: The secret British history of tattoos”. The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 22 April 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
  4. ^ “Public Voice Scholars”. essex.ac.uk. University of Essex. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
  5. ^ Body Art: Body Modification as Artistic Practice academia.edu
  6. ^ [https://royalhistsoc.org/society-elects-233-new-fellows-associate-fellows-members-and-postgraduate-members/ “Society clects 234 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members”]
  7. ^ [https://www.beetz-brothers.com/produktionen/the-art-of-museums/ “Art of Museums”]
  8. ^ https://independentpodcastawards.com/IPA25/en/page/our-2023-winners
  9. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/mar/26/experience-i-tracked-down-my-impostor
  10. ^ Jones, Dan (8 December 2024). “Tattoos by Matt Lodder review — the untold history of a modern art”. The Times. Archived from the original on 28 March 2025. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
  11. ^ Wroe, Nicholas (28 November 2024). “‘Gentlemen shared their tattoos over dinner’: how our taste for tattoos started with the rich”. The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 March 2025. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
  12. ^ Forbes-Carbines, Frances (6 February 2025). “Life stories, writ large”. The Critic. Archived from the original on 3 April 2025.
  13. ^ Mifflin, Margot (28 February 2024). “What Dennis Rodman, Kate Moss and a 5,000-year-old Alpine iceman have in common”. Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 29 February 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
  14. ^ Krutak, Lars (1 March 2017). “EXHIBITION! TATTOO: BRITISH TATTOO ART REVEALED”. larskrutak.com. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
  15. ^ “Tattoo: British Tattoo Art Revealed”. nmmc.co.uk. National Maritime Museum Cornwall. 15 December 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
  16. ^ “New exhibition celebrates female tattoo artists”. essex.ac.uk. University of Essex. 18 April 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2025.