Matt Connors › CV

MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

BFA, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

Finder, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland

Tune, Herald St, London, United Kingdom

Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland

Matt Connors, Canada, New York, NY

Swap, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

In Here, Herald St, London, United Kingdom
Figure, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird’s Lane, Glasgow, United Kingdom

The Monteverdi Gallery, Tuscany, Italy
Look Up, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Le Sirenuse, Positano, Italy

Hocket, Canada, New York, NY
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow (with Klara Lidén), Viana Art, New York, NY

The Flat Voice, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, United Kingdom
stud/file, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

Not Straight, Herald St, London, United Kingdom
Matt Connors and Joe Bradley: New York Painting, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Bottoms, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Bottoms, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne

Nick Relph, Herald St-Golden Sq, London, United Kingdom
ZONDER, KARMA Amagansett, Amagansett, NY
Matt Connors and Bernard Piffaretti, Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
Machines, Canada, New York, NY
Complaints III, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA

Matt Connors, White Flag Library, Saint Louis, MO
Synthesizer, Herald St, London, United Kingdom
Reverse Telescopes with Inflected Bafes, KARMA, New York, NY

Impressionism, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Sandpaper Sleeve, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Matt Connors / Marc Hundley, Herald St, London, United Kingdom
Matt Connors and Ian McDonald: The Turn, 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco, CA

Gas...Telephone...One Hundred Thousand Rubles, Kunsthalle Duesseldorf,
Duesseldorf, Germany
Matt Connors: Line Breaks, VeneKlasen / Werner, Berlin, Germany
You’re gonna take a walk in the rain and you’re gonna get wet, Luettgenmeijer, Berlin, Germany
Concentrations 54: Fergus Feehily and Matt Connors, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas

You Don’t Know, Canada, New York, NY
Matt Connors, Four Boxes Gallery at Krabbesholm, Skive, Denmark
Dromedary Resting, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA

Enjambment, Canada, New York, NY
Homonyms, LuttgenMeijer, Berlin, Germany

Pre-Echo, The Breeder, Athens, Greece

Freely Espousing, Jef Bailey Gallery, New York, NY

50 Paintings, co-curated by Margaret Andera and Michelle Grabner, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

A Project Curated by Artists: 15 Years of ACP, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA

South Willard, Curated with Matt Connors and Matt Paweski, Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY

Papertrail, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, CA

To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting, Gagosian, London, United Kingdom

Regarding Kimber, Chem & Read, New York, NY

A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9, David Zwirner, New York, NY

An Incomplete History of Printed Matter’s Art Book Fairs, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY

Off the Beaten Track, Gallery Baton, Seoul, Korea

Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Matisse Alive, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

I know where I'm going. Who can I be now, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland

Social Photography IX, Carriage Trade Gallery, New York, NY

Gridspace, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

NOTHING OF THE MONTH CLUB, Off Paradise, New York, NY

At the Luss House, The Gerald Luss House, Ossinig, NY

Artists for New York, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY

Via Dell’Inferno, Herald St at Galleria Spazia, Bologna, Italy
STAND AT THE WINDOW, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA (online)
(Nothing but) Flowers, Karma, New York, NY

A Page From My Intimate Journal (Part II), Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, US
(organised by Gordon Robichaux)

Via dell’Inferno, Herald St at Galleria Spazia, Bologna, Italy

Canada b/w Drag City, Soccer Club Club, Chicago, IL
Dock or Doorknob, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
Fixing the "not... but”, LC QUEISSER, Tbilisi, GE
Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY
FREE ASSOCIATION, Affective Care, New York, NY
Aftereffect: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Painting, MCA, Denver, CO

SHANZINI : Shannon Michael Cane and Printed Matter, Inc, Printed Matter, New York, NY
Painting: Now and Forever, Part III, Matthew Marks Gallery and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
L'Almanach 18, 3e biennale internationale d'Art Contemporain, Consortium Museum, Dijon, France
A Page From My Intimate Journal (Part I), Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY

Working/Not Working, organized by Matt Connors, Cana, New York, NY

Perfectly Concoted Context by Jonathan Monk, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA

Markers, David Zwirner, London, United Kingdom
We'll turn Manhattan into an island of joy, Markus Luttengen, Cologne, Germany
Divided States of America, curated by Alison M. Gineras, Stuart Corner, and Robb Leigh Davis, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Community Center, New York, NY
99 Cents or Less, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI

Make Painting Great Again, Canada, New York, NY
Conversation Between a Mirror and the Sea, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR
Olympia, Galerie Patrick Sequin, Paris, France

The Answer, The Question, Artist Curated Projects, La Vista Court, Los Angeles, CA
Feed the Meter, Curated by Wallace Whitney, Gallerie Bernard Ceysson,Luxembourg
New York Painting, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Fondamenta: Matt Connors, Peter Karkawik, Matt Pareski, Peter Shire, Santa Monica
College Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Love for Three Oranges, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Call and Response, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, NY

The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, MoMA, New York, NY
IN NO TIME, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Zero Point, Jackie Klempay Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Matt Connors, John Henderson, Lucas Knipscher, Andrea Rosen Gallery
New York, NY
Outside the Lines: Painting: A Love Story, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
FEBREZE, KINMAN, London, United Kingdom

Painter Painter, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Matt Connors, John Henderson and Lucas Knipscher, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY

Collaborations & Interventions, Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca, Spain

Histories de votre vie: Darren Bader, Juliette Blightman, Matt Connors, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Matt Connors, Robert Cumming and Florian Morlat, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA

Untitled, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, NY
Seven Card Stud, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Teeth, The Breeder, Athens, Greece
Shut Your Eyes In Order to See, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France

Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree, Luttgenmeijer, Berlin, Greece
Portugal Arte 10, Lisbon, Portugal

Matt Connors, Arturo Herrara, Merlin James, Sikkema Jenkins, New York, NY

The Awful Parenthesis, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Coming In From The Cold, curated by Nicola Vassell, Duve, Berlin, Germany

Dark Side of the Moon, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria

Matt Connors, Nancy de Holl, Michael Rashkow, Rowan Wood, Parker Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Unaddressed Circumventions: Folds From a Failed Suicide, Gresham’s Ghost, New York, NY

Varda Caivano, Matt Connors, Thomas Hylander, Zak Prekop, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paul Bloodgood, Matt Connors, Elena Pankova, Zak Prekop, Michael Wetzel, Susanne Hillberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI

Matt Connors, Marc Hundley, Michael Stickrod, Cherry and Martin, L.A., CA

Party at Phong’s House, Janet Kurnatowski Galeria, Brooklyn, NY

Unnameable Things, Art Space, New Haven, CT (catalogue)
Bianca Beck, Josh Brand, Matt Connors, Zak Prekop, Hayley Tompkins, Sue Tompkins, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL

Deadliest Catch: Hamptons, curated by Michael Sellinger, Southampton, NY

Imaginary Realities, Max Wigram, London, United Kingdom

TENDERLOIN, The Breeder, Athens, Greece

ab strac tion, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Abstract Paintings and a Sculpture, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY

Matt Connors, Ryan McLaughlin, Shannon Mustipher, Stanley Whitney, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI

CMYK, Canada, New York, NY
When the Moon Shines on The Moonshine, The Breeder, Athens, Greece

Smoking Mirrors, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
25 Bold Moves, House of Compari, New York, NY
Turn the Beat Around, Sikkema Jenkins and Co. New York, NY
MFA Thesis Show, Green Art Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

Fresh Direct, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY

Mystic Truths, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL

I’m just saying, curated by Ryan Kitson, 84 ROEBLING, Brooklyn, NY

SILKIES, Matthew Connors and Lizzie Scott, organized by Josh Blackwell, Hot

Coco Lab 962 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA

Other People’s Projects: Pre-Echo Press, White Columns, New York, NY

Luigi Ghirri: The Idea of Building, Matthew Marks, New York, NY

Working/Not Working, Canada, New York

Bernard Piffaretti: Report, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA

The Chinati Foundation, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 2006 Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship

Joan Mitchell Foundation Award Nominee Panelist; Abstraction and the Sign.
Yale University School of Art. Panel Discussion featuring; Peter Halley,
Jessica Stockholder, Fabian Marcaccio, Shirley Tse, David Reed and Christine Mehring.

Artist Pension Trust, New York Gamblin Paint Award

‘Matt Connors’ artist monograph, published by Karma, New York, NY

‘Thirty-Four Reverse Telescopes and Three Buttons’ Matt Connors, book

Smith, Roberta. “Art We Saw This Winter.” The New York Times, January 4

“In Pictures: See Practically Every Artwork in the 2022 Whitney Biennial.” Artnet News, December 15

Mitchell, Rory, ‘Matt Connors at Xavier Hufkens,’ Ocula, March 13.

Rhodes, David, ‘Luigi Ghirri: TheIdea of Building,’ Brooklyn Rail.

‘New York Galleries: What to See Right Now,’ The New York Times, July 31.

Fyfe, Joe, ‘You Are in Good Hands with Matt Connors,’ Hyperallergic, November 30.

‘Matt Connors,’ The New Yorker, October 28.

‘Make Painting Great Again,’ The New Yorker, June 29.

Nunes, Andrew ‘CANADA is Making Painting Great Again,’ The Creators Project: Vice Magazine, June 22.

Saltz, Jerry ‘I Love Canada’s 17-Artist State-of-the-Medium Spectacle ‘Make Painting Great Again.’ It Also Makes Me Worry for the Fate of the Lower East Side..’ Vulture.com, June 14.

Zhong, Fan. "Oh Canada! One of New York's scrappiest, most anti-establishment galleries is facing it's biggest challenge yet: success." W Magazine, November.
Winsryg, Marian. "SMC Hosting Art Exhibit, Artists' Reception," Santa Monica Daily Press, February 11.
Schreier, Christoph. New York Painting. Bonn: Kuntsmuseum Bonn / Hirmer, 2015.
Horst, Aaron. "Matt Connors at Cherry and Martin," Contemporary Art Review LA, May 28.
Tattersall, Lanka. “Best of Los Angeles, 2015: Matt Connors, ‘Bottoms’ at Cherry and Martin”, Art in America, December.
Georgopoulos, Alexis, "Matt Connors", ANP Quarterly, Volume 2, Number 8, October.

Roberta Smith "The Paintbrush in the Digital Era." The New York Times December 11

Rosenberg, Karen. "Matt Connors: ‘Machines’", The New York Times, May 15.
Russeth, Andrew. "'Matt Connors: Machines' at Canada", Gallerist, April 30.

Harmon, Heather. "Matt Connors: Off-the-Wall Artist." W Magazine, April 11
“2013: The Year According to Matt Connors” (online), Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, p. 4-5. January 24

Connors, Matt. “Conversation between Bernard Piffaretti and Matt Connors” in Bernard Piffaretti: Report.
Los Angeles: Cherry and Martin, p. 35-44.
“Exhibitons in Brief,” Art+Auction, September, p. 151
Wilk, Deborah. “50 Under 50 Next Most Collectible Artists: Matt Connors,” Art+Auction
Magazine, June, p 123.
Crosby, Eric. "Matt Connors." Painter Painter: Notes for an Exhibition."

Travaglini, Cristina. On Exhibitions: Walker Art Centers exhibition Painter Painter, Kaleidoscope, Winter 2012/2/13, Issue 17 pp. 128-134.

Nair, Kaveri. “Cherry and Martin.” Artforum, October 6

Bedford, Christopher. Dear Painter...,Frieze, March, Issue 145, pp.98-105.

Burbon, Matthew. "Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily," Artforum CRITIC'S PICKS, June.

Hudson, Suzanne. Matt Connors: Canada, Artforum, January, pp. 221-222.

Roberta Smith "Matt Connors." The New York Times December 10

Phelps, Calvin, "Matt Connors at Cherry and Martin," Artslant

Werthern, Wilhelm, "Kunstler der aktuellen Ausgabe: Matt Connors," Le Monde diplomatique, January 14.

Cotter, Holland, On the Piers, Testing the Waters in a Down Art Market, The New York Times, March 6.

Smith, Roberta, Is Painting Small the Next Big Thing? New York Times, April 19.

Maine, Stephen, A Landslide and a Cocktail Party, The New York Sun, March 20.
Matt Connors, The New Yorker, April 8.

Morgenthau, Josh, Matt Connors Enjambment, The Brooklyn Rail, April (illus.)

Brooks, Amra, "Must See Art: "Abstraction at Michael Kohn Gallery." LAWeekly September 26.

Landes, Jennifer, A Show with Chutzpah, The East Hampton Star, May 30.

The Turntable is Working, Drawings by Matt Connors & Marc Hundley 1995 Zing Magazine,
Issue #1, Drawings: Surrealism and the Current Vernacular,curated by Amy Sillman.