The two sets, designed by Matthew Antaky, were attractive, showing a fine eye for characteristic Spanish-style detail, right down o the wrought iron on the upstairs window.
San Francisco Classical Voice

Mark Foehringer Dance Project SF
If Foehringer has hoped to return to his Brazilian roots in the creation of this piece, he succeeds through his use of music and lighting. Indeed the real star of this show is the rich and elegant lighting design by Matthew Antaky, which succeeds in creating lush landscapes, gorgeous silhouettes, and specific highlights of the dancers in a soft and sensual way—Diadorim on his deathbed is a vision not soon to be forgotten.
Voice of Dance

Festival Opera
Candide - Festival opera's production, which features a series of fluid, interlocking modular set pieces by Matthew Antaky, is just as bold and outsized as Bernstein's vision.
Contra Costa Times

Un Ballo in Maschera - Set designer Peter Crompton has excelled in his extraordinary conception, abetted by excellent work by lighting designer Matthew Antaky, costumer Vincent, and stage director David Cox.
Bekeley Daily Planet

Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company
String Calligraphy
Mr. Antaky’s placement of the dance platform slightly behind and high above the heads of the standing musicians was a stroke of genius. It allowed the central place of the music to be preserved, not hidden in some pit, while transposing the dance into moving pictographs on a wall. Meanwhile, The lighting on the ribbons gave them an extraordinarily surreal and charged effect, enhancing the music. Highly effective!
SF Classical Voice

It is a visually beautiful, unpressured mix of global elements that boasts stunning lighting by designer Matthew Antaky.
San Francisco Chronicle

Southern Girl
Mr. Antaky created a bold and elegant set design and décor.
Dance Magazine

The lighting subtlety abounds through every breath this luminous piece takes.
All of the company’s superb lighting designs are by Matthew Antaky.
Nevada Events News

Stephen Pelton Dance Theater
“Not Here” is an Enthralling solo for Nol Simonse, the music is melancholy Radiohead and Matthew Antaky’s Lighting is again Superb.
In Dance

Mr. Antaky's stage designs boast simplicity and sharpness that bring to mind the early work of Robert Wilson. The easy transformation of a white paper screen marked by the shadows of saxophone players into a snowy hilltop rising to a dark night is one of several moments where Mr. Antaky’s alchemy turns Theater Artaud’s limitations into virtues. San Francisco Chronicle

America Songbook
As “America Songbook” Came to an end, two wounded soldiers helped each other up Mr. Antaky’s white-paper hill, a fallen backdrop from an earlier act. It crunched beneath their feet, fragile and manmade, like the war they fought.
SF Weekly

Animal Acts
Mr. Antaky’s set of disheveled drapes, dingy ropes and large blue medicine ball conjured the weary dissoluteness of a small tent belonging to a traveling band of performers, while his lighting infused the whole with humane warmth.
San Francisco Chronicle

September for Sale
The dancers are powerful, the sets and lighting by Matthew Antaky support the emotional atmosphere, the multiple costume designs by Susanna Douthit are simple and appropriate and Austin Forbord’s video design both challenges and extends the many thematic connotations. Pelton and his collaborators are to be congratulated for bringing "September for Sale" to realization.
Voice of Dance

Chitresh Das Dance Company
East as Center
Thanks to Mr. Antaky’s brilliant lighting and set design (Five white diamond shapes on the floor and hanging panels that added depth), ODC theater’s utilitarian space was transformed into a magic kingdom whose inhabitants fought ancient battles about jealousy, faithfulness, courage and dedication.
San Francisco Bay Guardian

The Theater was set up with an orchestra down stage right, and black panels hung at intervals deep at the back of the house—which when lit by the wizardly smoke and mirrors effects of Matthew Antaky, very powerfully suggested the dappled forest floor, dawn in the forest, the palace of Ravana, the hermitage of his brother, the country home of Ram, even the upper atmosphere where Ravana in his chariot encounters the eagle in full flight.
Dance View West

Credit for the gorgeous auburn textured set and mystical lighting design goes to Matthew Antaky, in the background is an enormous rectangular picture frame, colored by a reddish earth-toned texture and ancient, shadowy designs.
Asian week

Sampurnam
This was one of the most visually entrancing (Chitresh Das) programs in recent memory, with a stage design by Matthew Antaky that framed the action with ornate scrolls and made the floor glow orange beneath the dancer’s glittering skirts.
Voice of Dance

Liss Fain Dance
Bay area choreographers Liss Fain, Cynthia Adams and Jo Kreiter along with video artist Doug Rosenberg have entrusted Visual Designer and Director Matthew Antaky to create an environment in which Balletic, Comedic, Aerial and Video dance pieces not only look good but also flow and create unity. If anyone can create this, Mr. Antaky just might.
Critics Choice - San Francisco Bay Guardian

Ms. Fain has always worked with ballet trained dancers and good collaborators, above all, the excellent lighting wizard, Matthew Antaky.
Dance View Times

La Tania Flamenco
Passage of the muse:
Mr. Antaky’s ability to weave the projections of Judith Deim’s paintings into the fabric of the entire piece is quite astounding.
When my attention to the action on stage starts to lag, his visual unity draws me back in, and I cannot escape.
Bay Area Reporter

A beautifully projected triptych that hung behind suggested a compassionate figure caught in a blazing landscape while Teresa Vallejo, whose rich voice could melt bitter chocolate was suddenly silent, majestically trailing a long red scarf across the entire back of the stage.
Los Angeles Times

Mr. Antaky’s simple diagonal provides an invisible frame for La Tania’s white shawl over a black dress. But as she dances the light subtly changes to suit the mood, and at one point there is a beautiful sequence of her shadow on the background, her arms and the shawl like the wings of a bird.
San Francisco Bay Guardian

The Program starts stark and evolves out of Goya-like depths of darkness. Silhouetted, La Tania casts looming shadows reminiscent of those in Sargent’s great painting “El Jaleo.”
The Boston Globe

La Tania moved with the fluidity and changeableness of Matthew Antaky’s subtle lighting, which suggested a continuum of shifting times and places across the stage.
New York Times

Mass
Mass-Dallas
Designer Matthew Antaky worked wonders with a simple ramp bisecting the stage and shifting light schemes.
Dallas Morning News

Caminos Flamencos
To begin with, Matthew Antaky’s stage design is stunning; Lena Herzog’s tension-filled black and white photos of dancers and matadors flash onto front and rear scrims while the lighting design plays off the photos composition with architectural savvy.
San Francisco Examiner

Rapunzel
Thank you very much for your imaginative and pertinent beauties in designing the stage and lighting for Rapunzel. The whole thing worked very well together and I thought this was by far the best of the four productions that I have witnessed.
Personal letter from composer, Lou Harrison

A Traveling Jewish Theater
Matthew Antaky's set, a sort of postmodern landscape of distant hills and actual sand, evokes a sense of the Diaspora as well as the deserts of Israel
SF Arts Monthly