Matthew Drutt

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Matthew Drutt
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Matthew Drutt ca. 2019
BornMatthew Joseph Williams Drutt
(1962-12-08) December 8, 1962 (age 60)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S
Occupationcurator, editor, author
LanguageEnglish
Education New York University,
Yale University
Notable awardsChevalier, Order of Arts and Letters, 2006
Website
druttcam.com

Matthew Joseph Williams Drutt (born December 8, 1962) is an American curator and writer who specializes in modern and contemporary art and design. Based in New York, he has owned and operated his independent consulting practice Drutt Creative Arts Management (DCAM) since 2013l. He is currently working with the Lee Ufan Foundation in Arles on an exhibition of non-objective art foor Fall 2024. More recently, he worked with the Nationalmuseum Stockholm on an exhibition and publication (2022 - 2023) of modern and contemporary American crafts gifted from artists and collectors in the United States to the museum, originally organized by his mother, Helen Drutt. He has worked more recently with the Eckbo Foundation in Oslo on the first major monograph of Thorwald Hellesen published in English and Norwegian in (2019 - 2022) by Arnoldsche Art Publishers. He is currently also developing several other titles with the publisher. Formerly, he worked with the Beyeler Foundation in Switzerland (2013–2016) and the State Hermitage Museum in Russia (2013–2014), consulting on exhibitions, publications, and collections. He continues to serve as an Advisory Curator to the Hermitage Museum Foundation Israel. In 2006, the French Government awarded him the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, [1] and in 2003, his exhibition Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism won Best Monographic Exhibition Organized Nationally from the International Association of Art Critics. [2]

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Early life, education

Matthew Drutt was born on December 8, 1962, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is the son of Helen Drutt  [ Wikidata ], an educator, gallerist, and collector of international contemporary crafts. [3] He received his B.A. degree cum laude from New York University in 1986 with a double major in History of Art and Russian Studies, and earned an M.A. degree from Yale University in 1987. [4]

Career

From 1993 to 2001, he was a curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where he organized shows such as Amazons of the Avant-Garde, [5] The Art of the Motorcycle in 1998, Mediascape in 1996, Josef Albers in 1995, and Frank Lloyd Wright in 1994. He was Chief Curator of The Menil Collection in Houston [6] from 2001 to 2006, where he organized exhibitions of Robert Gober, Ellsworth Kelly, Olafur Eliasson, Donald Judd, Anna Gaskell, and Vik Muniz, [5] as well as collection-based projects. [4]

In 1999, Drutt organized the exhibit Bill Fontana: Acoustical Visions of Venice for the 48th Venice Biennale in cooperation with The Bohen Foundation, and in 2011 he returned to curate Anton Ginzburg: At The Back of the North Wind for the 54th Venice Biennale. [4]

Among his exhibition catalogs are Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism, an exhibit centered on Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, who had founded the avant-garde Suprematist movement in the early 1900s. [7] [8] [9] It was published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in 2003. [10] The exhibition won Best Monographic Exhibition Organized Nationally from the International Association of Art Critics. [2]

From 2006 to 2010, he was executive director of the international artist residency program Artpace in San Antonio, [6] where he produced solo exhibitions of artists Kehinde Wiley, David Adjaye, [5] Kate Gilmore, and Nathan Carter, among others. [4] In 2010, he also curated the yearlong exhibition Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Billboards, the first show devoted to this artist's public work in depth. [6] After this, he was executive director of Lisson Gallery in London, Milan, and New York, [11] where he oversaw its international sales of artists, including Daniel Buren, Tony Cragg, [1] Ryan Gander, Dan Graham, Shirazeh Houshiary, Anish Kapoor, Jason Martin, Jonathan Monk, and Lawrence Weiner. [4] From 2012 [11] to 2013, [4] he was the founding executive director of the Blouin Cultural Advisory Group, and was curator for the Louise Blouin Foundation in London, [11] where he organized exhibitions of work by Chris Marker in 2012 and Olga de Amaral in 2013. [4]

He has also served as a visiting professor at Columbia University [5] in both the Graduate School of the Arts and the Avery School of Architecture and at the Fashion Institute of Technology. [4]

Boards and committees

Drutt serves on numerous boards and committees. He was chair of the Arts Committee for LongHouse Reserve from 2018 - 2020 and he was a founding member of the El Lissitzky Foundation in Eindhoven from 2013 to 2019. He was on the advisory board of the Hermitage Museum Foundation from 2012 to 2015 and The Fabric Workshop and Museum's artist advisory board since 2010. Previously, he was on the advisory boards of the American Academy in Berlin, American Academy in Rome, and Documenta in Kassel, Germany. He was a chair for Luminaria: Arts Night in San Antonio and the American Association of Museum Directors. He had also worked with both Public Art San Antonio and Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art. [4]

Recognition

In 2006, the French Government awarded him the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for accomplishments in the international art world. [1] In 2003, his exhibition, Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism, received the award for Best Monographic Exhibition Organized Nationally from the International Association of Art Critics, [2] who also awarded him 2nd place in 1996 in the same category for Max Beckmann in Exile.

Exhibitions

The following is a collection of approximately one third the exhibits Drutt has organized:

Publications

Note that the following list doesn't include most exhibition catalogs Drutt has written, though many have been published. He wrote his first exhibition catalog in 1992, for Albert Paley: Sculptural Adornment at the Renwick Gallery, an exhibit by the Smithsonian Institution. It was published by the University of Washington Press in 1992.

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  7. ↑ Kazimir Malevich at the Encyclopædia Britannica
  8. ↑ Malevich, Kasimir — A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
  9. ↑ Casimir Malevich — The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
  10. ↑ Drutt, Matthew (Feb 18, 2003). Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism (1st ed.). Harry N. Abrams, Inc. pp.  272. ISBN   978-0892072651.
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