Bather, 2010
| MATT JOHNSON | |
| Born in New York, NY, 1978 | |
| Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA | |
| EDUCATION | |
| Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003 | |
| Artist residency, Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy, 2002 | |
| Bachelor of Fine Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, MD, 2000 | |
| New York Studio Program (AICAD), New York, NY, 1999 | |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 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 |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2012 | Blind Cut: Curated by Jonah Freeman and Vera Neykov, Marlborough Gallery, New York (forthcoming) |
| 2011 | 11th Triennale für Kleinplastik (Triennial of small scale sculpture), Fellbach, Germany (forthcoming) |
| 2009 | 15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA |
| Abstract America, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK | |
| Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2008 | The Form Itself, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY |
| Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY | |
| 2007 | all about laughter, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| Makers and Modelers, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Sculptors' Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Time Difference: The Frank Cohen Collection, Initial Access, Wolverhampton, UK | |
| 2006 | Clarissa Dalrymple's Exhibition of Young Artists to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Bortolami Dayan, New York, NY |
| The World is Round, The Public Art Fund, Metro Tech Center, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2005 | Uncertain States of America - American Art in the 3rd Millennium, Astrup Fearnley, Oslo NO; travelled to Bard College, New York, NY; Serpentine Gallery London, England; Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik IS; Herning Art Museum, Herning DK; CCA Warsaw, Warsaw PL; Le Musée de Sérignan, Sérignan FR; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague CZ; Songzhuan Art Center, Beijing CN |
| Sutton Lane in Paris, Sutton Lane c/o Galerie Ghisloine Hussenot, Paris, France | |
| Thing, curated by James Elaine, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2004 | Magic Show, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Mystery Achievement, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY | |
| Drunk vs. Stoned, curated by General Store and Emily Speers Mears, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY | |
| Nature Study: A selection of artists from New York and Los Angeles, curated by Sarah Vanderlip, 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, curated by Pascal Spengemann for Scope, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Ordinary Uncanny, curated by Pascal Spengemann for Scope, New York, NY | |
| Group show curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA | |
| 2002 | Four Times One Minus One, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Group show curated by Giancinto Di Pietrantonio and Angela Vettese, Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy | |
| Nanotechnology, curated by Nick Barna, The Whole Gallery, Baltimore, MD | |
| Everything Everywhere, curated by Nick Barna, The H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore, MD | |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| 2009 | Cotter, Holland. "Art in Review: Matt Johnson", New York Times, 13 February 2009 |
| Finch, Charlie. "Pascal's Puzzles", Artnet.com, 3 February 2009 | |
| "Reviews: Matt Johnson", The New Yorker, 21 - 27 January 2009 | |
| 2007 | O' Reilly, Sally. "Funny Guys: All About Laughter", Art Review, January 2007 |
| McElheny, Josiah. "Readymade Resistance", Artforum, October 2007 | |
| 2006 | Campagnola, Sonia. "Focus on Los Angeles", Flash Art, January/February 2006 |
| Casadio, Mariuccia. "Intimacy", Vogue Italia, February 2006 | |
| Knight, Christopher. "Daring to tread on the turf of a master", LA Times, 6 October 2006 | |
| 2005 | Finkel, Jori. "First Come the Dealers, and Then the Diplomas", New York Times, 3 July 2005 |
| Harvey, Doug, "Good Thing: Emerging L.A. Sculptors at the Hammer", LA Weekly, 4 - 10 February 2005 | |
| Holte, Michael Ned. "Scene & Herd: West Coast Thing", 10 February 2005 | |
| Knight, Christopher, "The Next Big 'Thing' in LA", LA Times, 9 February 2005 | |
| Miles, Christopher. "The Idolaters' Revenge", Flash Art, May/June 2005 | |
| "News: On Now, On Soon," Flash Art, March/April 2005 | |
| THING: NEW SCULPTURE FROM LOS ANGELES, Los Angeles: Armand Hammer Museum of Art, 2005, p.42-45 | |
| 2004 | Cattelan, Maurizio, Ali Subotnick, and Massimiliano Gioni, "Everybody was There: The Wrong Guide to New York in 2004", Artforum, December 2004 |
| DiSilverio, Victoria, "A Night Out With: New Artist in Town", New York Times, 21 March 2004 | |
| Mears, Emily Speers, "Critics' Picks New York: Mystery Achievement", Artforum.com, 5 October 2004 | |
| Saltz, Jerry, "An Artist Worms into Some Nicely Dicey Sculptural Terrain", Village Voice, 6 April 2004 | |
| Sholis, Brian, "Critics' Picks New York: Matt Johnson", Artforum.com, 31 March 2004 |