| MATT KING I 804.938.4444 I matt@mattkingstudio.com
Lives and Works in Richmond, VA
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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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS |
| 2009 |
Matt King, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR (solo) |
| 2008 |
Matt King: Blister Pack, Werkstätte, NYC (solo).
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 AltmanSiegel.
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 |
Matt King: Mergers, Audiello Fine Art, Inc., NYC (solo).
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 |
| 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, 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 |
| 2001–2003 |
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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“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 |
| 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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| EVENTS |
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The Outlaw Series Streetside public performance/sculpture with Halsey Rodman, Organized by Lisa Kirk,
NYC, December 2003. |
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Artist Participant, Art In General Artist Studio Tour, NYC, October 2003. |
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Artist Participant, Fly on the Wall, Lot 61, NYC, April 2003. 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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