Matt Connors
Born 1973, Chicago; Lives and works in New York.
Current & Forthcoming
| 2023 | ‘50 Paintings’, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee |
| 2024 | ‘Finding Aid’, Goldsmiths CCA, London |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2023 | ‘Finder’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
| ‘Tune’, Herald St, London | |
| Ortuzar Projects, New York | |
| 2022 | ‘Invert’, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore |
| ‘Body Forth’, CANADA, New York | |
| 2021 | ‘Swap’, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels |
| 2020 | Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore |
| 2019 | ‘Figure’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
| ‘Inhere’, Herald St, London | |
| 2018 | Monteverdi Gallery , Tuscany |
| ‘Look Up’, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels | |
| 2017 | ‘Hocket’, CANADA, New York |
| ‘Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow (with Klara Lidén)’, Viana Art, New York | |
| 2016 | ‘The Flat Voice’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| ‘stud/file’, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels | |
| 2015 | ‘Not Straight’, Herald St and Herald St - Golden Sq, London |
| ‘Bottoms’, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Bottoms’, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne | |
| 2014 | ‘Matt Connors . Nick Relph’, Herald St - Golden Sq, London |
| ‘Zonder’, Karma, Amagansett, New York | |
| ‘Machines’, CANADA, New York | |
| ‘Matt Connors: Complaints III’, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles | |
| 2013 | ‘Matt Connors’, White Flag Library, Saint Louis |
| ‘Reverse Telescopes with Inflected Baffles’, KARMA, New York | |
| ‘Art Basel Unlimited’, Herald St & Cherry and Martin, Art Basel | |
| ‘Synthesizer’, Herald St, London | |
| 2012 | ‘Impressionism’, MoMA PS1, New York |
| ‘Sandpaper Sleeve’, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Matt Connors / Marc Hundley’, Herald St, London | |
| 2011 | ‘Gas... Telephone... One Hundred Thousand Rubles’, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany |
| ‘Matt Connors: Line Breaks’, Veneklasen/Werner, Berlin | |
| ‘You’re gonna take a walk in the rain and you’re gonna get wet’, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin | |
| ‘Concentrations 54: Fergus Feehily and Matt Connors’, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas | |
| 2010 | ‘You Don't Know’, CANADA, New York |
| ‘Matt Connors’, Four Boxes Gallery at Krabbesholm, Skive, Denmark | |
| ‘Dromedary Resting’, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles | |
| 2008 | ‘Homonyms’, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin |
| ‘Enjambment’, CANADA, New York | |
| 2007 | ‘Pre-Echo’, The Breeder, Athens |
| 2005 | ‘Freely Espousing’, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York |
Group Exhibitions
| 2023 | ‘Papertrail’, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles |
| ‘To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting’, Gagosian Gallery, London | |
| 2022 | ‘Friends in a Field: Conversations with Raoul De Keyser’, Mu.zee, Oostende |
| ‘Regarding Kimber’ | |
| ‘Other People's Projects: Pre-Echo Press’, White Columns, New York | |
| ‘A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9’, David Zwirner, New York | |
| ‘Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
| 2021 | ‘Gridscape’, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels |
| ‘I Know Where I'm Going - Who Can I Be Now’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow | |
| ‘Nothing of the Month Club’, Off Paradise, New York | |
| 2020 | ‘(Nothing But) Flowers’, KARMA, New York |
| ‘Via dell’Inferno’, Herald St at Galleria Spazia, Bologna | |
| 2019 | ‘Canada b/w Drag City’, Soccer Club Club, Chicago |
| ‘Duck of Doorknob’, Ratio 3, San Francisco | |
| ‘Fixing the "not... but"’, LC QUEISSER, Tbilisi | |
| ‘Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now’, Lisson Gallery, New York | |
| ‘FREE ASSOCIATION’, Affective Care, New York | |
| ‘Aftereffect: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Painting’, MCA Denver, Denver | |
| 2018 | ‘SHANZINI : Shannon Michael Cane and Printed Matter, Inc’, Printed Matter, New York |
| ‘Painting: Now & Forever, Part 3’, Greene Naftali Gallery & Matthew Marks Gallery, New York | |
| ‘L'almanach 18’, Le Consortium, Dijon | |
| ‘A Page from My Intimate Journal (Part I)’, Gordon Robichaux, New York | |
| 2017 | ‘Markers’, David Zwirner, London |
| ‘We’ll turn Manhattan into an isle of joy’, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne | |
| ‘99 Cents or Less’, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit | |
| ‘Divided States of America’, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York (curated by Alison M. Gineras, Stuart Comer and Robb Leigh Davis) | |
| ‘Group Exhibition 2017’, James Fuentes, New York | |
| 2016 | ‘Conversation Between a Mirror and the Sea’, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland |
| 2015 | ‘The Answer, The Questions’, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles |
| ‘Feed the Meter’, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg | |
| ‘New York Painting’, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn | |
| ‘Love for Three Oranges’, Karma at Gladstone Gallery, Brussels | |
| ‘Fondamenta’, Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College | |
| ‘Call and Response’, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York | |
| 2014 | ‘The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World’, MoMA, New York |
| ‘All Summer in a Day’, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland | |
| ‘Nuit Américaine’, Office Baroque, Brussels | |
| ‘In NO time’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow | |
| ‘Outside the Lines: Painting: A Love Story’, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston | |
| 2013 | ‘Matt Connors, John Henderson and Lucas Knipscher’, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York |
| ‘FEBREZE’, Kinman Gallery, London | |
| ‘Brian Bress, Matt Connors, Mari Eastman, Nathan Mabry, T. Kelly Mason’, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Painter Painter’, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis | |
| 2012 | ‘The Turn, Matt Connors and Ian McDonald’, 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco |
| ‘Straight Up’, Family Business, New York | |
| ‘Matt Connors / Marc Hundley’, Herald St, London | |
| ‘Collaborations and Interventions’, Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca | |
| 2011 | ‘Histories de votre vie: Darren Bader, Juliette Blightman, Matt Connors, Office Baroque Gallery’, Office Baroque, Antwerp |
| ‘Matt Connors, Robert Cumming and Florian Morlat’, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles | |
| 2010 | ‘Seven Card Stud’, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles |
| ‘Portugal Arte 10’, Lisbon | |
| ‘Summer Teeth’, The Breeder, Athens | |
| ‘Shut Your Eyes In Order to See’, Praz-Dellavalade, Paris | |
| ‘Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree’, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin | |
| ‘Untitled’, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York | |
| 2009 | ‘Coming in From the Cold’, Duve, Berlin |
| ‘The Awful Parenthesis’, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Unaddressed Circumventions: Folds From a Failed Suicide’, Gresham's Ghost, New York | |
| ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, Martin Janda Gallery, Vienna | |
| ‘Matt Connors, Nancy de Holl, Michael Rashkow, Rowan Wood’, Parker Jones Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Matt Connors, Arturo Herrara, Merlin James’, Sikkema Jenkins and Co, New York | |
| 2008 | ‘Paul Bloodgood, Matt Connors, Elena Pankova, Zak Prekop, Michael Wetzel’, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale |
| ‘Varda Caivano, Matt Connors, Thomas Hylander, Zak Prekop’, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Party at Phong’s House’, Janet Kurnatowski Galeria, New York | |
| ‘Matt Connors, Marc Hundley and Michael Stickrod’, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Matt Connors, Marc Hundley, Michael Stickrod’, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Bianca Beck, Josh Brand, Matt Connors, Zak Prekop, Hayley Tompkins, Sue Tompkins’, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago | |
| ‘Deadliest Catch: Hamptons’, CORE: Hamptons, Southampton, US | |
| ‘Imaginary Realities’, Max Wigram Gallery, London | |
| ‘Unnameable Things’, Art Space, New Haven | |
| 2007 | ‘TENDERLOIN’, The Breeder, Athens |
| ‘Abstract Paintings and a Sculpture’, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton | |
| ‘Matt Connors, Ryan McLaughlin, Shannon Mustipher, Stanley Whitney’, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale | |
| ‘ab strac tion’, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| 2006 | ‘When the Moon Shines on The Moonshine’, The Breeder, Athens |
| ‘Smoking Mirrors’, China Art Objects, Los Angeles | |
| ‘CMYK’, CANADA, New York | |
| ‘25 Bold Moves’, House of Campari | |
| ‘Turn the Beat Around’, Sikkema Jenkins and Co, New York | |
| ‘MFA Thesis Show’, Green Art Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven | |
| 2005 | ‘Fresh Direct’, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York |
| ‘Mystic Truths’, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago |
Curatorial Projects
| 2017 | ‘Working/Not Working’, CANADA, New York |
Commissions
| 2018 | ‘Continuous Color Circuit (Columns), for Positano’, Le Sirenuse |
Awards
| 2024 | Award of Merit Medal for Painting, The American Academy of Arts and Letters |
Residencies
| 2015 | ‘The Chinati Foundation’, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa |
Bibliography
Press
| 2024 | Madeleine Clark: ‘Matt Connors: Finding Aid at Goldsmiths CCA’, FAD, 12/03/2024 |
| 2016 | Ed.: ‘Art Talk: Brush With Fame (excerpt)’, Wall Street Journal Magazine, 03/2016 |
| 2015 | Walrod, Jim: ‘Matt Connors’, Apartamento, Issue 16 11/2015 |
| Georgopoulos, Alexis: ‘Matt Connors’, ANP Quarterly , Volume 2, Number 8 2015 | |
| 2014 | Guadagnino, Kate: ‘Time Bends’, Vogue, 12/2014 |
| Harmon, Heather: ‘Matt Connors: Off-the-Wall Artist’, W Magazine online, 11/04/2014 | |
| Byrne, Emmet: ‘2013: The Year According to Matt Connors’, The Walker Art Center Blog, 2014 | |
| 2013 | Matt Connors: ‘Matt Connors’, This Long Century, 28/12/2013 |
| Wilk, Deborah: ‘50 Under 50 Next Most Collectible Artists: Matt Connors’, Art + Auction, 13/06/2013 | |
| Crosby, Eric: ‘Painter Painter: Notes for an Exhibition’, Walker Art Center, 2013 | |
| 2012 | Travaglini, Cristina: ‘On Exhibitions: Walker Art Center’s exhibition ‘Painter Painter’’, Kaleidoscope, 17 11/2012 |
| ‘Matt Conners at Cherry and Martin’, Contemporary Art Daily, 30/10/2012 | |
| Bedford, Christopher: ‘Dear Painter...’, Frieze, 145 03/2012 | |
| Trezzi, Nicola: ‘USA: amerikai egyesult absztraktok’, Flash Art Hungary, 2012 | |
| 2011 | Garza, Evan J : ‘The Limitations of Total Freedom: A Q&A with Matt Connors’, New American Paintings, 15/04/2011 |
| Grove, Jeffrey: ‘Concentrations 54: Matt Connors’, Dallas Museum of Art, 04/2011 | |
| 2010 | Stephenson, Sarah : You Don‘t Know - Matt Connors at Canada Gallery, art:21, 18/11/2010 |
| Werthern, Wilhelm: ‘Kunstler der aktuellen Ausgabe: Matt Connors’, Le Monde diplomatique, 14/01/2010 | |
| 2008 | Ed.: ‘Matt Connors’, The New Yorker, 14/04/2008 |
| 1995 | Sillman, Amy (curator): ‘Drawings: Surrealism and the Current Vernacula’, Zing Magazine, 1 1995 |
Exhibition Reviews
| 2024 | Tom Denman: ‘Matt Connors Plays a Game of Forms at Goldsmiths CCA’, Ocula, 26/03/2024 |
| Adrian Searle: ‘Matt Connors: Finding Aid review fearless exhibition full of unexpected pleasures’, The Guardian, 13/03/2024 | |
| 2015 | Tattersall, Lanka: ‘Best of Los Angeles’, Art in America, 21/12/2015 |
| H. Merjian, Ara: ‘The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World’, Frieze, 170 04/2015 | |
| 2014 | Griffin, Nora: ‘Matt Connors’, Art in America, 15/09/2014 |
| Rosenberg, Karen: ‘Matt Connors: Machines’, The New York Times, 15/05/2014 | |
| Russeth, Andrew: ‘Matt Connors: Machines at Canada’, Gallerist NY online, 30/04/2014 | |
| 2013 | ‘Exhibitions in Brief’, Art + Auction, 09/2013 |
| Thomas, Jonathan: ‘‘Painter Painter’ Unhinges Abstraction from Social Transformation’, Frieze, 156 2013 | |
| 2012 | Nair, Kaveri: Critics’ Picks: Matt Connors, Artforum Online, 05/10/2012 |
| 2011 | Bourbon, Matthew: ‘Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily’, Artforum, 06/2011 |
| Sanderson, Louiseza: ‘Concentrations 54; Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily at the Dallas Museum of Art’, Pegasus News , 11/04/2011 | |
| Hudson, Suzanne: ‘Matt Connors: Canada’, Artforum, 01/2011 | |
| 2010 | Smith, Roberta: Matt Connors: You Don‘t Know, The New York Times, 10/12/2010 |
| Doran, Anne: Matt Connors: You Don‘t Know, Time Out New York, 01/11/2010 | |
| Phelps, Calvin: ‘Matt Connors at Cherry and Martin’, ArtSlant, 03/2010 | |
| 2008 | Maine, Stephen: ‘A Landslide and a Cocktail Party’, The New York Sun, 20/04/2008 |
| Smith, Roberta: ‘Is Painting Small the Next Big Thing?’, The New York Times, 19/04/2008 | |
| Morgenthau, Josh: ‘Matt Connors Enjambment’, The Brooklyn Rail, 04/2008 | |
| 2007 | Brooks, Amra: ‘Abstraction at Michael Kohn’, LA Weekly, 27/09/2007 |
| Landes, Jennifer: ‘A Show with Chutzpah’, The East Hampton Star, 30/05/2007 |
Publications
| 2023 | FINDER, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| 2019 | Figure, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| GUI(L)DE, Karma, New York | |
| 2016 | The Flat Voice, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| Thirty-Four Reverse Telescopes and Three Buttons, Karma, New York | |
| 2014 | Machines, Rainoff, New York |
| 2013 | Connors, Matt: 'Conversation between Bernard Piffaretti and Matt Connors’ in Bernard Piffaretti: Report, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles |
| 2012 | Matt Connors: A Bell is a Cup, Rainoff, New York |
| 2011 | Correspondences, Ooga Booga, Los Angeles (artist book) |
| Matt Connors: Gas... Telephone... One Hundred Thousand Rubles, Walther König; Düsseldorf / Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (catalogue) | |
| 2002 | The Turntable is Working, Artist book |