Matt Browning *1984, USA. Lives and works in New York

Exhibitions
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    2025

    • In the main in the more, Fondation Ricard, Paris group
    • Zürich Biennial, Bechtler Foundation, Uster group
    • My Art, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne solo
    • Wooden Again, 229 Lenox, New York solo
    • Slow Looking, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver group

    2024

    • 15th Baltic Triennial: Same Day, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius group
    • Stillleben, Kammer Rieck, Hamburg group
    • Efpinalou 14, Athens 112 53, Greece, Hot Wheels, Athens group
    • Hard Ground, MoMA PS1, New York group
    • Wooden, Sant’Andrea De Scaphis, Rome solo
    • + Collection, Portland Museum of Art, Portland group
    • 118 ½, Emalin, London group

    2023

    • Jahresgaben 2023, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn group
    • Zürich Biennial, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich group
    • Two Shows, Essex Street, New York solo

    2022

    • Bells, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne group
    • Ann’s Research, Essex Street, New York group
    • Basement of Art, Gandt, New York solo

    2021

    • Paradis, Maison R&C, Marseilles group

    2020

    • Whitney Independent Study Program: Studio Exhibition, EFA Project Space, New York group

    2019

    • 25 October, 2015 - 12 May, 2019, Kunstverein Nürnburg, Nuremberg group
    • Green Room, Robson Park, Vancouver group

    2018

    • Woven Work From Near Here, grunt gallery, Vancouver group
    • Age of Trash Triumphant, Kimberly-Klark, New York group
    • Fantasy is a Place Where it Rains, Fanta, Milan group
    • Moving-Metal, Veronica, Seattle solo

    2017

    • Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York group
    • Pointing, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham group
    • An Absolute Movement, Or Gallery, Vancouver group
    • Candle, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver group
    • Between the Frames: The Frye Art Museum Collection After 1952, Frye Art Museum, Seattle group

    2016

    • Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver group
    • Plain Air, Anne Couillaud, Seattle group
    • To: Seattle | Subject: Personal, Frye Art Museum, Seattle group

    2015

    • Neddy Artist Awards Exhibition, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle group
    • Oysters Naturel, Veronica, Seattle group
    • Occasional Furniture, The Apartment, Vancouver group
    • Pressure Point, Secret Eight Project Space, Calgary group

    2014

    • Seurat and Friends, Artspeak, Vancouver group
    • Factory Showroom: Idleness, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle group

    2013

    • Parallel Processing, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle group
    • Balls to the Wall, Dodge Gallery, New York group

    2012

    • Devouring Time, Western Bridge, Seattle group
    • MW [Moment Magnitude], Frye Art Museum, Seattle group
    • Old ghost ranges, sunken rivers, come again, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle group
    • Seattle Catalog 2, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle group

    2011

    • Matt Browning, The Ledge, Seattle solo

    2010

    • Chilliwack International Biennial, Or Gallery, Vancouver group
    • Tradition As Adaptive Strategy, Lawrimore Project, Seattle solo

    2009

    • Matt Browning & Anne Mathern, Ditch Projects, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR solo
    • Spite House, Lawrimore Project, Seattle group
    • Changes, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland group

    2008

    • Patch Dynamics, Lawrimore Project, Seattle group
    • Deep Space Punctuated by Planets, SOIL Gallery, Seattle group
    • Home Field Advantage, Crawl Space Gallery, Seattle solo

    2007

    • Current Works, Crawl Space Gallery, Seattle group

Education

  • 2021 PhD Candidate, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

  • 2020 Participant, Studio Program, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York

  • 2017 MFA, Visual Art, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

  • 2007 BFA, Fiber Arts, University of Washington, Seattle

Residencies

  • 2019 The Global Condition Workshop: Dispossession, Displacement, and Death, Facilitated by Denise Ferreira da Silva, PerformingArtsForum, Saint-Erme-Outre-et-Ramecourt, France

  • 2018 The Global Condition Workshop: Dispossession, Displacement, and Death, Facilitated by Denise Ferreira da Silva, PerformingArtsForum, Saint-Erme-Outre-et-Ramecourt, France

  • 2014 Are We Looking at Dead Birds?, Facilitated by Celine Kopp, Banff Centre, Banff

  • 2010 Seattle University, Seattle

Lectures

  • 2025 Panelist: “Response to Jaleh Mansoor’s Universal Prostitution “, Red May, Online

  • 2024 Panelist: “Public Knowledge: The hidden hands of artistic (re)production”, Camden Art Centre, London

  • 2022 Panel Moderation: “Art, Value, Labor”, Red May, Online

  • 2021 Research Presentation: “James Boggs: The rights you take are the rights you make”, American Studies Association Conference, Online

  • 2018 Paper Presentation: Response to Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism, Critical Ethnic Studies Association
    Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

  • 2017 Artist Lecture: University of Washington, Seattle

  • 2017 Artist Lecture: Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood

  • 2017 Artist: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

  • 2016 Panelist: Frye Art Museum, Seattle

  • 2016 Artist Lecture: Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle

  • 2014 Panelist: Artspeak, Vancouver

  • 2011 Artist Lecture: University of Washington, Seattle

  • 2010 Artist Lecture: The Evergreen State College, Olympia

  • 2010 Artist Lecture: Seattle University, Seattle

Publications

  • Taking a Signifier, Making a Signifier. Shit Yes Academy (Goh Ballet Academy). Ag Galerie Press, 2020

  • The Green Side of the Landscape, in a forthcoming compilation art and capitalism, edited by Danielle Child,
    Routledge, 2025

Selected Press

  • “Matt Browning at Galerie Buchholz.” Contemporary Art Writing Daily, 21 June 2025

  • Teets, Jennifer. “15th Baltic Triennial Review: Antitheme.” Art Review, 28 November 2024

  • Rubino, Emile. “15th Baltic Triennial: ‘Same Day’ at Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, 2024.” Mousse
    Magazine, 25 November 2024

  • Kurtz, Michael. “Letter from Vilnius: Dancing for Nothing.” Art Monthly, no. 480, October 2024: 38

  • Bein, Jacksun. “Diminishing (Lost Hair Clogs Drain). Impulse Magazine, 22 September 2024

  • Bucklow, Isabelle. “Review: ‘118 ½’ Emalin/London.” Flash Art

  • Anonymous. “I Don’t Feel Guilty: Matt Browning at Gandt, April 15 - June 15, 2022. Downtown Critic #2, Fall 2022

  • Madsen, Kristian Vistrup. “Artforum Critics’ Picks: Paradis.” Artforum, 15 September 2021

  • Clark, Nate. “An Interview with Matt Browning.” Monday, vol. 1, Feb. 2018

  • Pothast, Emily. “Artist Matt Browning is making moving work with metals.” The Stranger, 31 Jan. 2018

  • McIntosh, Aaron. “2017 Whitney Biennial.” The Journal of Modern Craft, vol. 10, no. 3, 27 Dec. 2017

  • Lew, Christopher, and Mia Locks. 2017 Whitney Biennial. Yale University Press, 2017

  • Gopnik, Blake. “At the Whitney, Matt Browning Whittles Up a More Honest Modernism.” Artnet, 24 Mar. 2017

  • Plagens, Peter. “Whitney Biennial 2017 Review: Aesthetics are Alive Downtown.” The Wall Street Journal, 13 Mar.
    2017

  • Vansynghel, Margo. “Matt Browning at the Whitney Biennial.” CityArts, 13 Mar. 2017

  • Langer, Erin. “A New Vancouver Triennial Contends with Making Art in a Gentrified City.” Hyperallergic, 7
    Mar. 2017

  • Thompson, April. “‘Vancouver Special’ and the Issue with Local Surveys.” Canadian Art, 16 Feb. 2017

  • Turner, Michael. “Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures.” Websit, 14 Dec. 2016

  • Laurence, Robin. “Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures sparks delight in dark times.” The Georgia Straight, 7
    Dec. 2016

  • Chang, Weiyi. “Art in 2016: A view from Vancouver.” Canadian Art, 7 Dec. 2016

  • McKee, Jesse, and Daina Augatis. Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures. Vancouver: Black Dog Publishing, 2016

  • Gray, Jonah. “Post-Studio Visit Podcast (Episode 6): Matt Browning.” Or Gallery Podcasts, 2 Jun. 2016

  • Couillaud, Anne. “Oysters Naturel at Veronica.” Anne Couillaud, 28 Nov. 2015

  • Hogue, Tarah. “Postscript 60: The Specter of Artistic Labour.” Artspeak Publishing, 17 Feb. 2015

  • Heddaya, Mostafa. “Blood, sweat, and ‘idleness’ at the University of Washington’s Jacob Lawrence Gallery.” Blouin Artinfo, 15 Jan. 2015

  • Grgar, Sonja. “Exploring the aesthetics of labour.” The Source, vol. 15, no. 10, 9 Dec. 2014

  • Graves, Jen. “The folksy internet.” The Stranger, 14 Aug. 2013

  • Graves, Jen. “Leave nothing behind.” The Stranger, 13 Mar. 2012

  • Burnam, D.W. "Subjective Detumescence." La Norda Specialo, Oct. 2010, no. 7, pp. 1-3

  • Pothast, Emily. "Anticlimacticism as artmaking strategy: Matt Browning at Lawrimore Project." Translinguistic Other, 27 Jun. 2010

  • Connor, Jill. “Spite House at Lawrimore Project.” Whitehot Magazine, Dec. 2009

  • Graves, Jen. “The New Guy: Matt Browning’s Massively Promising Debut about Men and Sports.” The Stranger, 25
    Sep. 2008

  • Graves, Jen. “Best in Shows.” The Stranger, 22 Dec. 2008

Collections

  • Frye Art Museum, Seattle

  • Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

  • Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon