Matt Connors

Born 1973 in Chicago, IL
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

 EDUCATION
 
 2006            MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
 1995            BFA, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
  
 SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 2011
Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin, Germany (upcoming)  2010  CANADA, New York, NY 
Matt Connors, Four Boxes Gallery at Krabbesholm, Skive, Denmark
Dromedary Resting, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA 
  
 2008             
Homonyms, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin, Germany
Enjambment, CANADA, New York, NY
 
 2007            
Pre-Echo, The Breeder, Athens, Greece
 
 2005            
Freely Espousing, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
 
 
 GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010   Untitles, curated by Michel Auder, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, NY Summer Teeth, The Breeder, Athens, Greece
Shut Your Eyes In Order to See, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree, Luttgenmeijer, Berlin, Germany 
 
 2009 
Matt Connors, Arturo Herrera, Merlin James, Sikkema Jenkins, New York, NY           
Coming In From The Cold, curated by Nicola Vassell, Duve, Berlin, Germany 
The Awful Parenthesis, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Matt Connors, Nancy de Holl, Michael Rashkow, Rowan Wood, Parker Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Dark Side of the Moon, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria
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
 
 2008            
Matt Connors, Marc Hundley, Michael Stickrod, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, 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, UK
 
 2007            
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
 
 2006            
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
 
 2005            
Fresh Direct, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
Mystic Truths, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
 
 2003            
I’m just saying…, curated by Ryan Kitson, 84 ROEBLING, Brooklyn, NY
 
 2002            
SILKIES: Matthew Connors and Lizzie Scott, organized by Josh Blackwell, Hot Coco Lab, Los Angeles, CA
  
 BIBLIOGRAPHY
  Phelps, Calvin. "Matt Connors at Cherry and Martin," Artslant, 2010. 
Werthern, Wilhelm. "Kunstler der aktuellen Ausgabe: Matt Connors," Le Monde diplomatique, January 14, 2010. 
Smith, Roberta, “Is Painting Small the Next Big Thing?” The New York Times, April 19, 2008.
 Maine, Stephen, “A Landslide and a Cocktail Party,” The New York Sun, March 20, 2008, ills.
 Morgenthau, Josh, “Matt Connors Enjambment,” The Brooklyn Rail, April 2008 ills.
 Ed., "Matt Connors," The New Yorker, April 14, 2008.            
 Landes, Jennifer, “A Show with Chutzpah,” The East Hampton Star, May 30, 2007, illus.
 Brooks, Amra. “Abstraction at Michael Kohn,” LA Weekly, September 27, 2007.
 The Turntable is Working, Drawings by Matt Connors & Marc Hundley, Artist Book, 2002.            
 “Drawings: Surrealism and the Current Vernacular,” curated by Amy Sillman, Zing Magazine, Issue #1.