Solo Exhibitions

2012  

Touscene, Stavanger, Norway

2011  

'Breaking the Land' SFCamerawork San Fransisco, U.S.A.

2010

Matt Bryans - Hibernation, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam

2009

Matt Bryans, Jack Hanley Gallery (presented by Kate Fowle)

2008

Matt Bryans, Kate MacGarry

2007

Matt Bryans, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam

2006

Matt Bryans, Atlanta Center of Contemporary Art, USA

Matt Bryans, Kate MacGarry

2005

Picture This!, MMD Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium

Matt Bryans, Salon 94, New York

Matt Bryans - Landscapes, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam

2003

Matt Bryans, Kate MacGarry, London

Group Exhibitions

2011  

From A to B through C, Kortars Muveszek Galeria, Budapest

2010 

Contemporary Drawings, Musee des Beaux Arts de Besancon

2009

Pastiche 3, VAKs skulpturudstilling, Jyderup, Denmark

Dessins, Salon du dessin, Palais de la Bourse

2008

The Melody of Youth a project with Sam Basu, Kate MacGarry

Stray Alchemists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

Anatomie les peau du dessin, collection Florence and Daniel Guerlain, Frac de Picardie, Amiens

2007

The Juddykes, The Old Art Shop at John Jones

Sans Titre - Travaux sur Papier, Galerie Art Concept, Paris

System Error: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy

2006

Collage Effect (with Georg Grosz, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Franz West, Fiona Banner, Pae White, Liliana Moro, Ava Seymour, Peter Madden), 1301PE, Los Angeles, April 2006

Bryans, Basu, Vaule, Flaca, London

2005

Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2004

Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Tate Modern, (with Dr Lakra, Sebastiaan Bremer, Amie Dicke, Godfried Donkor, Wangechi Mutu, Jocum Nordstrom & Steven Shearer & Nicole Wermers)

Mourning, curated by Varda Caivano, Sies & Höke, Düsseldorf

Future Primitive, curated by Paul Johnson, One in the Other, London

Happy Darkness, André Viana Gallery, Porto, Portugal

Britannia Works, British Council survey show, Athens

The Bart Wells Institute of London, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2003

Groupshow, Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam

2002

May It Return In Spades, Bart Wells Institute, London

Flower Bed, Cremer Street Studios, London

Clear as Mud, Hoxton Jubilee, London

2001

If the Wind Changes You’ll Stay Like That, Mafuji Gallery, London

2000

Hellseher, Düsseldorf, Germany

Music Hall, Truman Brewery, London

Education

1999-2001 MA Fine Art, Chelsea School of Art, London

1996-1999 BA Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, UK

Publications

Frieze Yearbook 2008-9, Frieze Art Fair, 2008

Stray Alchemists, exhibition catalogue, edited by Kate Fowle, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2008

Matt Bryans, foreword by Norman Rosenthal, Kate MacGarry/Veenman publishers, 2006

Selected Press and Broadcasting

Past is an image we form in the present, Emma Tramposch, Camerawork, Vol 35, Fall-Winter 2008, pp.4-7

Matt Bryans, Paul Carey Kent, Art World, Aug/Sept 2008, pp.72-5

Matt Bryans, Eleanor Brown, The Artpaper, Summer 2008, p.20, 21, 26

Matt Bryans, Philip Auslander, Artforum, March 2007, pp. 324-5

Matt Bryans + Demetrius Oliver, Art Papers, Dinah McClintock, Jan/Feb 2007, p.49

Matt Bryans, Gilda Williams, Artforum, April 2006, p.305

Matt Bryans, Aura Satz, Tema Celeste, March/April 2006, n. 114, p.  85

Emerging Artists: Matt Bryans. Roger Tatley meets the new Eraserhead, Roger Tatley, Modern Painters, March 2006, pp.  56-58 

Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Jonathan Harris, Art Monthly, January February 2005

Pin-Up, Jessica Lack, Pick of the Week, The Guardian, 3 January 2005

The Art Just Doesn’t Cut It, Fisun Güner, Metro Life, 6 January 2005

All stuck and scribbled, Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Sunday Telegraph, 19 December 2004, p. 112

Work at the Cutting Edge, Charlotte Cripps, The Independent Review,

2 December 2004, p. 18

Newsnight Review, BBC2, 10 December 2004

Sit up and Take Notice, Dazed and Confused, February 2003, p. 38