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CV

b. 1973, Chicago, IL Lives and works in New York, NY

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2024
Positions
Ortuzar Projects
New York
2024
Finding Aid
Goldsmiths CCA
London
2023
Finder
The Modern Institute
Glasgow
2023
Tune
Herald St
London
2022
Invert
Lismore Castle Arts
Lismore, Ireland
2022
Body Forth
CANADA
New York, NY
2021
Swap
Xavier Hufkens
Brussels, Belgium
2019
In Here
Herald St
London, UK
2019
Figure
The Modern Institute
Glasgow, Scotland
2018
Monteverdi Gallery
Tuscany, Italy
2018
Look Up
Xavier Hufkens
Brussels, Belgium
2017
Hocket
CANADA
New York, NY
2017
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow (with Klara Lidén)
Viana Art
New York
2016
The Flat Voice
The Modern Institute
Glasgow, Scotland
2016
stud/file
Xavier Hufkens
Brussels, Belgium
2015
Not Straight
Herald St
London, UK
2015
Bottoms
Cherry and Martin
Los Angeles, CA
2015
Bottoms
Markus Lüttgen
Cologne, Germany
2014
Matt Connors . Nick Relph
Herald St
London, UK
2014
Zonder
Karma
Amagansett, NY
2014
Machines
CANADA
New York, NY
2014
Matt Connors: Complaints III
Cherry and Martin
Los Angeles, CA
2013
Matt Connors
White Flag Library
Saint Louis, MO
2013
Reverse Telescopes with Inflected Baffles
KARMA
New York, NY
2013
Art Basel Unlimited
Herald St & Cherry and Martin, Art Basel
Basel, Switzerland
2013
Synthesizer
Herald St
London, UK
2012
Impressionism
MoMA PS1
New York, NY
2012
Sandpaper Sleeve
Cherry and Martin
Los Angeles, CA
2012
Matt Connors / Marc Hundley
Herald St
London, UK
2011
Gas…Telephone…One Hundred Thousand Rubles
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Germany
2011
Matt Connors: Line Breaks
Veneklasen/Werner
Berlin, Germany
2011
You’re gonna take a walk in the rain and you’re gonna get wet
Lüttgenmeijer
Berlin, Germany
2011
Concentrations 54: Fergus Feehily and Matt Connors
Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX
2010
You Don't Know
CANADA
New York, NY
2010
Matt Connors
Four Boxes Gallery at Krabbesholm
Skive, Denmark
2010
Dromedary Resting
Cherry and Martin
Los Angeles, CA
2008
Homonyms
Lüttgenmeijer
Berlin, Germany
2008
Enjambment
CANADA
New York, NY
2007
Pre-Echo
The Breeder
Athens, Greece
2005
Freely Espousing
Jeff Bailey Gallery
New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2023
50 Paintings
Milwaukee Art Museum
Milwaukee
2023
Papertrail
Matthew Brown
Los Angeles
2023
To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting
Gagosian Gallery
London
2022
Regarding Kimber
Cheim & Read
New York, NY
2022
Friends in a Field: Conversations with Raoul De Keyser
Mu.ZEE
Ostend, Belgium
2022
A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9
David Zwirner
New York, NY
2022
Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
2021
Gridscape
Xavier Hufkens
Brussels, Belgium
2021
Matisse Alive
National Gallery of Australia
Canberra, Australia
2021
I Know Where I'm Going • Who Can I Be Now
The Modern Institute
Glasgow, Scotland
2021
Nothing of the Month Club
Off Paradise
New York, NY
2020
(Nothing But) Flowers
KARMA
New York, NY
2020
Via dell’Inferno
Herald St at Galleria Spazia
Bologna, Italy
2019
Canada b/w Drag City
Soccer Club Club
Chicago, IL
2019
Duck of Doorknob
Ratio 3
San Francisco, CA
2019
Fixing the "not... but"
LC QUEISSER
Tbilisi, Georgia
2019
Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now
Lisson Gallery
New York, NY
2019
FREE ASSOCIATION
Affective Care
New York, NY
2019
Aftereffect: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Painting
MCA Denver
Denver, CO
2018
SHANZINI : Shannon Michael Cane and Printed Matter, Inc
Printed Matter
New York, NY
2018
Painting: Now & Forever, Part 3
Greene Naftali Gallery & Matthew Marks Gallery
New York, NY
2018
L'almanach 18
Le Consortium
Dijon, France
2018
A Page from My Intimate Journal (Part I)
Gordon Robichaux
New York, NY
2017
Markers
David Zwirner
London, UK
2017
We’ll turn Manhattan into an isle of joy
Markus Lüttgen
Cologne, France
2017
99 Cents or Less
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
Detroit, MI
2017
Divided States of America
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
New York, NY
2017
Group Exhibition 2017
James Fuentes
New York, NY
2016
Conversation Between a Mirror and the Sea
Fourteen30 Contemporary
Portland, OR
2015
The Answer, The Questions
Artist Curated Projects
Los Angeles, CA
2015
Feed the Meter
Galerie Bernard Ceysson
Luxembourg, Belgium
2015
New York Painting
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Bonn, Germany
2015
Love for Three Oranges
Karma at Gladstone Gallery
Brussels, Belgium
2015
Fondamenta
Barrett Art Gallery
Santa Monica, CA
2015
Call and Response
Gavin Brown's Enterprise
New York, NY
2014
The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World
MoMA
New York, NY
2014
All Summer in a Day
Fourteen30 Contemporary
Portland, OR
2014
Nuit Américaine
Office Baroque
Brussels, Belgium
2014
In NO time
The Modern Institute
Glasgow, Scotland
2014
Outside the Lines: Painting: A Love Story
Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston, TX
2013
Matt Connors, John Henderson and Lucas Knipscher
Andrea Rosen Gallery
New York, NY
2013
FEBREZE
Kinman Gallery
London, UK
2013
Brian Bress, Matt Connors, Mari Eastman, Nathan Mabry, T. Kelly Mason
Cherry and Martin
Los Angeles, CA
2013
Painter Painter
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN
2012
The Turn, Matt Connors and Ian McDonald
2nd Floor Projects
San Francisco, CA
2012
Straight Up
Family Business
New York, NY
2012
Matt Connors / Marc Hundley
Herald St
London, UK
2012
Collaborations and Interventions
Kunsthalle Andratx
Mallorca, Spain
2011
Histories de votre vie: Darren Bader, Juliette Blightman, Matt Connors, Office Baroque Gallery
Office Baroque
Antwerp, Belgium
2011
Matt Connors, Robert Cumming and Florian Morlat
Cherry and Martin
Los Angeles, CA
2010
Seven Card Stud
Cherry and Martin
Los Angeles, CA
2010
Portugal Arte 10
Lisbon, Portugal
2010
Summer Teeth
The Breeder
Athens, Greece
2010
Shut Your Eyes In Order to See
Praz-Dellavalade
Paris, France
2010
Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree
Lüttgenmeijer
Berlin, Germany
2010
Untitled
Newman Popiashvili Gallery
New York, NY
2009
Coming in From the Cold
Duve
Berlin, Germany
2009
The Awful Parenthesis
Cirrus Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
2009
Unaddressed Circumventions: Folds From a Failed Suicide
Gresham's Ghost
New York, NY
2009
Dark Side of the Moon Martin
Janda Gallery
Vienna, Austria
2009
Matt Connors, Nancy de Holl, Michael Rashkow, Rowan Wood
Parker Jones Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
2009
Matt Connors, Arturo Herrara, Merlin James
Sikkema Jenkins & Co
New York, NY
2008
Paul Bloodgood, Matt Connors, Elena Pankova, Zak Prekop, Michael Wetzel
Susanne Hilberry Gallery
Ferndale, MI
2008
Varda Caivano, Matt Connors, Thomas Hylander, Zak Prekop Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
Karyn Lovegrove Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
2008
Party at Phong’s House
Janet Kurnatowski Galeria
New York, NY
2008
Matt Connors, Marc Hundley and Michael Stickrod
Cherry and Martin
Los Angeles, CA
2008
Bianca Beck, Josh Brand, Matt Connors, Zak Prekop, Hayley Tompkins, Sue Tompkins
Shane Campbell Gallery
Chicago, IL
2008
Deadliest Catch: Hamptons
CORE: Hamptons
Southampton, NY
2008
Imaginary Realities
Max Wigram Gallery
London, UK
2008
Unnameable Things
Art Space
New Haven, CT
2007
TENDERLOIN
The Breeder
Athens, Greece
2007
Abstract Paintings and a Sculpture
The Fireplace Project
East Hampton, NY
2007
Matt Connors, Ryan McLaughlin, Shannon Mustipher, Stanley Whitney
Susanne Hilberry Gallery
Ferndale, MI
2007
ab strac tion
Michael Kohn Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
2006
When the Moon Shines on The Moonshine
The Breeder
Athens, Greece
2006
Smoking Mirrors
China Art Objects
Los Angeles, CA
2006
CMYK
CANADA
New York, NY
2006
25 Bold Moves
House of Campari
New York, NY
2006
Turn the Beat Around
Sikkema Jenkins & Co
New York, NY
2006
MFA Thesis Show
Green Art Gallery, Yale University School of Art
New Haven, CT
2005
Fresh Direct
Jeff Bailey Gallery
New York, NY
2005
Mystic Truths
Kavi Gupta Galler
Chicago, IL

Curatorial Projects

2022
Other People's Projects: Pre-Echo Press
White Columns
New York, NY
2020
Luigi Ghirri: The Idea of Building
Matthew Marks
New York, NY
2017
Working/Not Working
Canada
New York, NY
2013
Bernard Piffaretti: Report
Cherry and Martin
Los Angeles, CA

Residencies

2015
The Chinati Foundation
The Chinati Foundation
Marfa, TX
2014
MacDowell
Peterborough, NH

Awards / Honors

2024
Award of Merit Medal for Painting, The American Academy of Arts and Letters
2012
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2006
Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship
2006
Gambil Paint Award

Public Collections

National Gallery of Australia, Australia
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Hall Collection, Reading, VT

Publications

2022
Body Forth / A Cliff to Climb
Pre-Echo Press, New York, NY
Matt Connors, Ryan Preciado
2019
GUI(L)DE
Karma, New York, NY
2016
Thirty-Four Reverse Telescopes and Three Buttons
Karma, New York, NY
2013
Matt Connors: A Bell is a Cup
Rainoff, New York, NY
Peter Eleey, Michel Leiris, Jack Spicer & Gertrude Stein
2011
Correspondences
Ooga Booga, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Matt Connors: Gas... Telephone... One Hundred Thousand Rubles
Walther König; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany
Elodie Evers

Education

2006
MFA
Yale University School of Art
New Haven, CT
1995
BFA
Bennington College
Bennington, VT
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