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

Exhibitions
CV

CV

    2026

    • A Screen of Trees, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin solo
    • Olivia Shao Selects: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York group
    • All Woodcarvings Remain Slow Motion Mobiles, Kunstverein München, Munich solo

    2025

    • In the main in the more, Fondation Ricard, Paris group
    • The Plastics, Edouard Montassut, Paris solo
    • 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

Collections

  • Frye Art Museum, Seattle

  • Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

  • Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon