Matt Johnson (artist)

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Matt Johnson (born 1978) is an artist based in Los Angeles,

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Johnson was born in New York City. He is a sculptor who creates humorous works out of everyday materials. [1] His art has been compared to that of Tom Friedman and Charles Ray for its innovative manipulation of objects. [2] [3] His first solo show was in New York City in 2004, less than a year after receiving his Masters of Fine Arts degree from University of California, Los Angeles. [4]

Selected solo exhibitions

2017

Wood Sculpture, 303 Gallery, New York, NY

'2015 '

Matt Johnson: Lautner Beams, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA

2014

Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2013

Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK

2012

303 Gallery, New York, NY

2011

Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2010

Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK

2009

Matt Johnson: Super System, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY

2006

Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2005

Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY

2004

Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY

Selected group exhibitions

2017

alt-facts, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

Jump Ball, Dio Haria, Mykonos, Greece

99 Cents or Less , Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI

Concrete Island , Venus Over Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2016

Phoenix Rising: The Valley Collects, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

6’s and 7’s, Outdoor Sculpture at Marlborough Gallery Breezeway, New York, NY

Wanderlust, The Highline, New York, NY

2015

love or the lack of it, curated by Friedrich Kunath, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain

Small Sculpture, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL

2014

Frieze Sculpture Park, London, UK

Broadway Morey Boogie, Broadway Malls, New York, NY, presented by Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY

2013

The Perfect Show, 303 Gallery, New York, NY

Eagles, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain

Funny, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY

Lifelike, Walker Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN; traveling to New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, TX

Blind Cut, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY

Object Fictions, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

2012

Levitating Woman, 2012, Ekebergparken Sculpture Park, Oslo

303 Gallery, New York, NY

The Perfect Show, 303 Gallery, New York, NY

Eagles, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain

Lifelike, Walker Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN; traveling to New Orleans Museum of Art, LA

Blind Cut, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY

Object Fictions, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

2011

Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb, Pace Gallery, New York, NY

Greater LA, 2nd Floor of 483 Broadway, New York, NY

2010

11th Triennale fur Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany (exh. cat.)

2009

Abstract America, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

Born in the Morning, Dead by Night, Leo Koenig, New York, NY

2008

PM Dawn, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY

Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

The Form Itself, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY

2007

Making Do, Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven CT

All About Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (exh. cat.)

Makers and Modelers, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

Objects, Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland

Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Time Difference, The Frank Cohen Collection, Initial Access Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK

2006

The World is Round, Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY (exh. cat.)

Clarissa Dalrymple’s Exhibition of Young Artists to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Bortolami Dayan, New York, NY

2005

Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, Astrup Fearnley, Oslo, Norway; traveled to Bard College, New York, NY; Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Reykjavik Art

Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic (exh. cat.)

Art Rock, Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY

Sutton Lane in Paris, Sutton Lane c/o Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France

Thing, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (exh. cat.)

2004

Magic Show, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Mystery Achievement, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY

Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Project, New York, NY

Drunk vs. Stoned, Gavin Brown’s Passerby, New York, NY

Nature Study: A Selection of Artists’ from New York and Los Angeles, California State University, Bakersfield, CA

2003

Another Sculpture Show, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX

Buy Contortions, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY

Threedimetrical, Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA

California Welcomes You, Scope, Los Angeles, CA Ordinary Uncanny, Scope, New York, NY

Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA

2002

Four Times One Minus One, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy

Nanotechnology, The Whole Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Everything Everywhere, The H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Bibliography

Catalogues

2013

Mikkelsen, Egil, Magne Malmanger, and Margrethe Geelmuyden. Ekebergparken. Oslo: Orfeus, 2013.

2012

Engberg, Siri, ed. Lifelike. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2012, 61, 170-71, 180.

Freeman, Jonah and Vera Neykov. Blind Cut. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 2012, 55.

Jacobson, Heidi Zuckerman, and James Frey. Funny. New York: Flag Art Foundation, 2012.

Spengemann, Pascal. Matt Johnson: Small Sculptures. Los Angeles: Wood Kusaka Studios, 2012.

2011

Cahill, James. Frank Benson, Mark Grotjahn, Matt Johnson. London: Sadie Coles, 2011.

2010

Gülicher, Nina. “Matt Johnson: Materielle Widersprüche.” In Larger Than Life: Stranger Than Fiction. Fellbach. Germany: Stadt Fellbach; Heule, Belgium: Snoeck, 2010, 128-129.

Johnson, Matt. Dice, The Meteorite (Duchamp), and The Electron. Los Angeles: Matt Johnson, 2010.

2009

Colburn, Tyler. “Matt Johnson.” In Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation. London: Phaidon, 2009, 164-165.

2007

All About Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art. Tokyo: Mori Art Museum, 2007.

2006

Steiner, Rochelle. The World is Round. New York: Public Art Fund, 2006.

2005

Birnbaum, Daniel, Gunnar B. Kvaran, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, eds. Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium. Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, 2005.

Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Armand Hammer Museum of Art, 2005, 42-45.

Museum and Public Collections

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway

Ekebergparken Sculpture Park, Oslo, Norway

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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References

  1. ↑ Victoria DeSilverio, Matt Johnson: New Artist in Town, NYTimes.com
  2. ↑ Jerry Saltz, Matt Johnson, VillageVoice.com
  3. ↑ G. James Daichendt, Matt Johnson: Artillerymag.com "Matt Johnson: Blum & Poe – Artillery Mag: Killer Text on Art". Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
  4. ↑ DeSilverio, Victoria (2004-03-21). "New Artist in Town". The New York Times . Retrieved 2014-08-13.
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