Matt Connors
b. 1973, Chicago, US
Lives and works in New York, US.

Education
2006
MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, US
1995
BFA, Bennington College, Bennington, US

Solo Exhibitions
2014
Machines, CANADA, New York, US Matt Connors: Complaints III, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, US
Zonder, Karma, Amagansett, New York, US
Matt Connors . Nick Relph, Herald St – Golden Sq, London, UK
2013
Reverse Telescopes with Inflected Baffles, Karma, New York, US
Synthesizer, Herald St, London, UK
Matt Connors, White Flag Library, Saint Louis, MO, US
Art Basel Unlimited, Herald St and Cherry and Martin, Basel, CH
2012
Impressionism, MoMA PS1, New York, US
Sandpaper Sleeve, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, US
Matt Connors / Marc Hundley, Herald St, London, UK
The Turn, Matt Connors and Ian McDonald, 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco, US
2011
Gas…Telephone…One Hundred Thousand Rubles, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, DE
Matt Connors: Line Breaks, Veneklasen / Werner, Berlin, DE
You’re gonna take a walk in the rain and you’re gonna get wet, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin, DE
Concentrations 54: Fergus Feehily and Matt Connors, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, US
2010
You Don’t Know, CANADA, New York, US
Matt Connors, Four Boxes Gallery at Krabbesholm, Skive, DK
Dromedary Resting, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, US
2008
Enjambment, CANADA, New York, US
Homonyms, LuttgenMeijer, Berlin, DE
2007
Pre-Echo, The Breeder, Athens, GR
2005
Freely Espousing, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, US

Group Exhibitions
2015
New York Painting, Kunstumuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE (cat)
Fondamenta, Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College, US
2014
Nuit Américaine, Office Baroque, Brussels, BE
The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, MoMA, New York, US, curated by Laura Hoptman
In No Time, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
Outside the Lines: Painting: A Love Story, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, US
Summer in a day, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, US
2013
Painter Painter, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
Matt Connors, John Henderson and Lucas Knipscher, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
2012
Collaborations & Interventions, Kunsthalle Andrax, Mallorca, ES
2011
Histories de votre vie: Darren Bader, Juliette Blightman, Matt Connors, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Matt Connors, Robert Cumming and Florian Morlat, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, US
2010
Untitled, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, US
Seven Card Stud, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, US
Summer Teeth, The Breeder, Athens, GR
Shut Your Eyes In Order to See, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR
Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree, Luttgenmeijer, Berlin, DE
Portugal Arte 10, Lisbon, PT
2009
Matt Connors, Arturo Herrara, Merlin James, Sikkema Jenkins, New York City The Awful Parenthesis, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Coming In From The Cold, curated by Nicola Vassell, Duve, Berlin, DE
Dark Side of the Moon, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, AT
Matt Connors, Nancy de Holl, Michael Rashkow, Rowan Wood, Parker Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Unaddressed Circumventions: Folds From a Failed Suicide, Gresham’s Ghost, New York, US
Varda Caivano, Matt Connors, Thomas Hylander, Zak Prekop, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Paul Bloodgood, Matt Connors, Elena Pankova, Zak Prekop, Michael Wetzel, Susanne Hillberry Gallery, Ferndale, US
2008
Matt Connors, Marc Hundley, Michael Stickrod, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, US
Party at Phong’s House, Janet Kurnatowski Galeria, New York, US
Unnameable Things, Art Space, New Haven, US
Bianca Beck, Josh Brand, Matt Connors, Zak Prekop, Hayley Tompkins, Sue Tompkins, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, US
Deadliest Catch: Hamptons, curated by Michael Sellinger, Southampton, US
Imaginary Realities, Max Wigram London, UK
2007
TENDERLOIN, The Breeder, Athens, GR
ab strac tion, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angels, US
Abstract Paintings and a Sculpture, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, US
Matt Connors, Ryan McLaughlin, Shannon Mustipher, Stanley Whitney, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, US
2006
CMYK, CANADA, New York, US
When the Moon Shines on The Moonshine, The Breeder, Athens GR
Smoking Mirrors, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, US
25 Bold Moves, House of Compari, New York, US
Turn the Beat Around, Sikkema Jenkins and Co. New York, US
MFA Thesis Show, Green Art Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, US
2005
Fresh Direct, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, US
Mystic Truths, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, US

AWARDS / HONOURS
2012
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2006
Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship
2005
Gamblin Paint Award
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, US
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, US