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Matthew Monahan

Born in Eureka 1972
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Education

  • 1990-1994 Cooper Union School of Art, New York Gerit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam

Solo Exhibitions

2009
  • Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
2008
  • Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2007
  • Matthew Monahan, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • African Masks and Fetishes, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2006
  • Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
2005
  • Anton Kern Gallery, New York
  • Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
2003
  • Commission mural for Rehabilitation Center, Leiden
  • Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2002
  • Civilized Special Zone, Lara Schnitger and Matthew Monahan, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen
  • Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2000
  • Gozaimas, Bureau Stedelijk, Amsterdam
1999
  • Artist’s Proof, Buro Leeuwarden, Friesmuseum, Leeuwarden
  • Like Stink on a Monkey, Archipel, Apeldoorm
1998
  • Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
  • Fools Gold, The Bank of Netherlands
1997
  • Anton Kern Gallery, New York
  • Mums Tattoo (curated by Luc Tuymans), Sien La, Antwerp
  • Zeno’s Quiver, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Group exhibitions

2008
  • Sphinxx, Curated by Alexis Vaillant, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
  • Life on Mars, the 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh
  • Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London
  • Sonsbeek Sculpture Exhibition, Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem
2007
  • Unmonumental: Falling to Pieces in the 21st Century, Curated by Richard Flood, Laura Hoptman and Massimiliano Gioni, The New Museum, New York
  • Eden’s Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
  • Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
  • UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2006
  • Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2004
  • Remembering (curated by Charles Gaines), UC Riverside Gallery, Riverside
  • MB: the Mary Blair story, with My Barbarian, Redcat, Los Angeles
  • To Be Recycled, Six Months, Los Angeles
2003
  • Tussen Droom en Daad, Fonds BK, Amsterdam
2001
  • I Love NY, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
  • Mean Mercy, Tent, Rotterdam
  • Free-standing, Beaver College Art Gallery, Philadelphia
  • 11 x Dutch Art, National Center for Art, St. Petersburg
  • The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2000
  • Exorcism Aesthetic Terrorism, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1999
  • Glad Ijs/Thin Ice, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • ArtLovers, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
  • Subreal/The Human Condition, LA International Bienial, Inmo Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
1998
  • Morning Glory, De Ateliers, Amsterdam
  • Exterminating Angel (curated by Joshua Decter), Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
  • Going Up the Country, ACHK De Pavijoens, Almere
1997
  • Night at Life, curated by Hoyt Brown, Life, New York

Publications

2009
  • Hoptman, Laura, Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, Phaidon Press, London, 2009, p. 200-201
2008
  • Red Eye: LA Artists From The Rubell Family Collection, (exhibition catalogue), published by The Rubell Family Collection, Miami
2007
  • Unmonumental: Falling to Pieces in the 21st Century, (exhibition catalogue), published by the New Museum and Phaidon
  • Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (exhibition catalogue)
2004
  • Fragile Kingdom, ARTIMO Amsterdam, text by Matthew Monahan and Klaus Biesenbach
2003
  • 10 Years SMBA, We show Art 1, Stedelijk Buro Amsterdam, Amsterdam, text by Matthew Monahan
  • Blue Tuesdays, De ateliers 1963-2003, Amsterdam
2000
  • Exorcism/Aesthetic Terrorism, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
  • SMBA NO 55 Gozaimas, Stedelijk buro Amsterdam, Amsterdam
1999
  • Prix NI 99, Gallery Nouvelles Images, The Hague
1998
  • Neuro-Artomnomy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam text Matthew Monahan, Lara Schnitger
1997
  • Stedelijk Museum Bulletin, artist’s writing

Selected Bibliography

2008
  • Smith, Roberta. An Alien Sighting on Planet Pittsburgh, The New York Times online, May 9
  • Scene and Heard: Space Oddity, ArtForum.com, May 5
  • Howe, David Everitt. Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, Art Review, March, p. 148
2007
  • Matthew Monahan, ArtForum, December, p. 334-335
  • Gaines, Malik. Under the Volcano:History and What We Make of the Work of Matthew Monahan, Modern Painters, October, p. 76-83
  • Griffin, Jonathan. Back to Eden’s Edge, Frieze, October, p. 255
  • Beradini, Andrew. MOCA Focus: Matthew Monahan, Art Review, October, p. 162
  • Myers, Terry R. Eden’s Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, Art Review, September, p. 116
  • West, Kevin. Face Time, W Magazine, August, p. 86
  • Dunne, Aidan. Shape of Things Falling Apart, The Irish Times, February 14
2006
  • Garnett, Daisy. The Collector: Why the Collector Mera Rubell Keeps it all in the Family, The New York Times Magazine, December 3, p. 74-75
  • Herbert, Martin. Matthew Monahan, Katy Moran, Time Out London, November
  • Matthew Monahan, Flash Art, January-February, p. 75
  • Monahan, Matthew. Matthew Monahan: Zeno’s Quiver, Stedelijk Museum Bulletin, August 30, p. 83-85
2002
  • Schambelan, Elizabeth. Matthew Monahan and Georg Herold and Anton Kern, Art in America, July, p. 92
  • Gioni, Massimiliano. Night on Earth, Flash Art, March-April, p. 65

Awards/Grants/Residencies

2002
  • Fonds BK Grant/Residency, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen
2000
  • Fonds BK Grant/Residency, Kitakyushu
1994 —
  • 1996 De Ateliers, Fellowship, Amsterdam

Selected Collections

 
  • Akzo-Nobel Art Foundation, Arnheim
  • Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario
  • Bernard Nadal-Ginard, Boston
  • Centraal Utrect Museum, Utrect
  • Collection Dean Valentine, Los Angeles
  • Chris Dercon, Rotterdam
  • De Ateliers, Amsterdam
  • Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
  • Georg Herold, Cologne
  • Luc Tuymans, Antwerp
  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
  • The Bank of the Netherlands
  • The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • The Museum of Old and New Art, State Collection of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
  • Rubell Family Collection, Miami
  • Saatchi Collection, London
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • Tate Modern, London
  • Willem Oorbeek, Brussels