| MATT KING I 804.938.4444 I matt@mattkingstudio.com
Lives and Works in Richmond, VA where he is Assistant Professor of Art Foundation and Sculpture + Extended Media, Virginia Commonwealth Univerisity, School of the Arts.
EDUCATION |
M.F.A. |
2004 |
Milton Avery Graduate School of Art, Bard College |
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1998 |
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program |
B.F.A. |
1995 |
The Cooper Union School of Art |
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 2011 |
Continental Drift, Gallery 307, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. |
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Generics, Brant Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA. |
| 2010 |
Self-Checkout, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA.
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| 2009 |
Science Diet, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR. |
| 2008 |
Blister Pack, Werkstätte, New York, NY. |
| 1999 |
Mergers, Massimo Audiello, New York, NY. |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
2012
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Pewter Wings, Golden Horns, Stone Veils, GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Curated by Nick Van Woert.
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2011 |
Point/Counterpoint, Andrews Gallery, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. Canada. Curated by Naomi Falk and Michael Gaynes. |
2008 |
ABC w/Love, Art Metropole, Toronto, ON, Canada. Curated by Jill Henderson.
3D Multiples: The Object of Production, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA. |
| 2007 |
FreeForm, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Ryan O'Connor and Leslie Stumpf.
Fette's Gallery One Year Anniversary, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Looser, Smoother, Faster, Fine Art Gallery, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY. Curated by Matt Ferranto.
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| 2006 |
The Jaundiced Eye, Scope Art Fair New York, NYC. Curated by David Hunt.
Face Off, One Night Stand, Brooklyn, NY.
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| 2005 |
Matt King and Tom Lendvai, PS122 Gallery, NYC. |
| 2004 |
Sculpture: Precarious Realism between Melancholy and Comedy, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Sabine Folie.
Guild & Greyshkul, Placemaker Gallery, Miami Beach, FL.
Irrational Exuberance, Stefan Stux Gallery, NYC.
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| 2003 |
NADA Art Fair Miami, Miami Beach, FL.
My Sources Say Yes, Guild & Greyshkul, NYC.
Enchanté, Bard College, Red Hook, NY.
New Slang: Emerging Voices in Sculpture, Luhring Augustine, NYC. Curated by Claudia Altman-Siegel.
Recliner, Cypress Art Gallery, Cypress College, Los Angeles, CA.
College Art Association NYC Area MFA Exhibition, Hunter College Galleries, NYC.
Prints Past and Present: Selections from the Cooper Union Printshop Archives, Cooper Union, NYC. |
| 2002 |
Supersized, Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Curated by Sherin Guirguis. |
| 2000 |
Transporter, About Studio/About Cafe, Bangkok, Thailand (catalog).
CU@VSC, Cooper Union School of Art, NYC. |
| 1999 |
Dead White Mail Networking, The Spare Room, Purchase, NYC.
The Greatest Show on Earth, Fox Fine Arts Gallery, University of Texas, El Paso, TX.
Lost and Found, Audiello Fine Art, Inc., NYC.
Five29Ninety9, Symposium Exhibition, St. Ann’s Church, Brooklyn, NY. |
| 1998 |
Flash, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, NYC.
ISP Open Studios, Whitney Independent Study Program, NYC. |
| 1996 |
A Large Show of Small Work, The Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union, NYC. |
| 1995 |
Stars, Flowers, Chips, Bullseyes: Geo Brenick, Matt King, Cara O'Connor,
The Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union, NYC.
Transitional Images/Transgressive Imaginations, The Houghton Gallery,
Cooper Union, NY.
Benefit Exhibition for Laura Cottingham’s ‘Not For Sale: A Video History of the Seventies Feminist Art Movement,’ Flamingo East, NYC. |
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| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Hitselburger, Brian |
“Continental Drift: The Distance Between Design and Experience,” Burnaway.org, July 5th, 2011. |
| Bovee, Katherine |
"Matt King," Art Papers, May/June, 2009. |
| Malone, Micah |
“Critic's Picks: Matt King at Fourteen30 Contemporary,” Artforum, April 13, 2009. |
| Speer, Richard |
“Matt King Fourteen30 Contemporary: Sizing Up Contemporary Life,” Willamette Week, #35.22, April 8th, 2009. |
| Libby, Brian |
“Matt King at Fourteen30 Contemporary,” The Oregonian, April 24th, 2009. |
| Landry, Mike |
“ABC...With Love,” The Walrus, (Canada). February 22nd, 2008. |
| Schwanberg, Johanna |
“Fragil, Komisch,Paradox: Realismus in der zeitgenossischen Skulptur,” Parnass,(Austria) Heft3. September/Oktober 2004. |
| Folie, Sabine |
“Am Abgrund: Konjekturen uber das Prekare, Fragile und Komische in der zeitgenossischen Skulpture,” Katalog, Kunsthalle Wien, 2004. |
| Gebler, Eric |
“New Slang: Emerging Voices in Sculpture,” Sculpture Magazine, Vol. 23
No. 2, March 2004. |
| Levin, Kim |
“Choices – New Slang,” The Village Voice, August 16, 2003. |
| Frank, Peter |
“Pick of the Week–Supersized,” LA Weekly, August 1522, 2002. |
| Henderson, Jill |
“New York Minute,” Lola (Canada), Number 5, Winter 19992000. |
| Cappuccio, Elio |
“Tutti figli di Duchamp,” Tema Celeste (Italy), No. 76, Nov. 1999. |
| Levin, Kim |
“Choices – Matt King,” The Village Voice, September 22, 1999. |
| Cotter, Holland |
“Art In Review – Lost and Found,” The New York Times, July 16, 1999. |
| Levin, Kim |
“Choices – Lost and Found,” The Village Voice, June 9, 1999. |
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| AWARDS/HONORS |
| 2012-13 |
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Visual Art Fellowship (Sculpture). Selected by juror Scott Rothkopf, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art. |
| 2008, 2010-11 |
Dean's Faculty Research Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. |
| 2001–03 |
Faculty Committee Fellowship, Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. |
| 1999 |
Barbara White Fishman Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. |
| 1995 |
The Ruth Gutman Epstein Memorial Prize for Excellence in Sculpture, Cooper Union. |
| 1995 |
Steinberg Award for Printmaking, Cooper Union. |
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| PUBLICATIONS |
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"Still Life with Flora" Catalog Essay for Flora, United States Botanic Garden with the Washington Sculptors Group, Washington, DC, 2009. |
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“SPF30” Skulptur: Prekarer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Komik, Katalog, Kunsthalle Wien, 2004. |
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“Pam Lins by Matt King” (interview) Artwurl, Spring 2004. www.artwurl.org |
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“Approximate Description of an Object” Shark, Volume 4, 2002. |
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| ARTIST TALKS |
| 2012 |
"Matt King: Recent Work," Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. |
| 2011 |
"Matt King: Recent Work," George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. |
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"Browsing Uncertainty," Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. |
| 2010 |
"Matt King," Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. |
| 2009 |
"Matt King," Bard College MFA Program, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY. |
| 2007 |
“Looser, Smoother, Faster” Fine Art Gallery, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY. |
| 2006 |
“Recent Work” Dept. of Sculpture and Extended Media, Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond, VA. |
| 2000 |
“SPF30” University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL. |
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| PERFORMANCES/EVENTS |
| 2010 |
Matt King, Clutch Gallery, Chicago, IL. Clutch Gallery is a mobile gallery space that is the project of performance artist Meg Duguid. For one month, my small sculpture was carried through the streets of Chicago and casually exhibited at Art Chicago and Next 2010. |
| 2003 |
Streetside public performance/sculpture with Halsey Rodman. The Outlaw Series, organized by Lisa Kirk,
Guild & Greyshkul, NYC, December. |
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Artist Participant, Art In General Artist Studio Tour, NYC, October. |
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Artist Participant, Fly on the Wall, Lot 61, NYC, April. Panel discussion on emerging artists with
curators Lauri Firstenburg and Shamin Momin. |
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| ARTIST RESIDENCIES |
| 2000 |
Visiting Artist Residency, Illinois State University, Normal, IL. |
| 1999 |
Barbara White Fishman Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. |
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COLLECTIONS |
| The Georgia Museum of Art |
| Richard and Susan Roth |
| Lawrence R. Luhring and Roland J. Augustine |
| LB Thompson |
| Loretta Michaelcheck |
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