MATT BRYANS
Selected Works
Press
| Born 1977 in London, lives and works in London | |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2017 | Matt Bryans with Vanya Bryans, Treignac Projet, France |
| 2014 | Lands, Treignac Project, Limousin, France |
| Lands, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway | |
| 2013 | Matt Bryans, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| 2012 | Matt Bryans, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, UK |
| Matt Bryans, TouScene, Stavanger, Norway | |
| 2011 | Breaking the Land, SFCamerawork San Francisco, U.S.A |
| 2010 | Matt Bryans – Hibernation, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2009 | Matt Bryans, Jack Hanley Gallery (presented by Kate Fowle), New York, U.S.A |
| 2008 | Matt Bryans, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| 2007 | Matt Bryans, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2006 | Matt Bryans, Atlanta Center of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, U.S.A |
| Matt Bryans, Kate MacGarry, London, UK | |
| 2005 | Picture This!, MMD Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium |
| Matt Bryans, Salon 94, New York, U.S.A | |
| Matt Bryans – Landscapes, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| 2003 | Matt Bryans, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2018 | Auto fictions – Contemporary drawing, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany |
| Manifesta 12: If We Want Things to Stay as They Are, Things Will Have to Change, Palazzo Campofranco, Palermo, Italy | |
| 2017 | Fifteen, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| Contemporary Drawing Prize, Fondation d’art Contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Centre Pompidou, Galerie d’Art Graphique, Paris, France | |
| 2014 | About Sculpture #4, Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, Germany |
| Mammouth, Treignac Project, curated by Matt Packer, Treignac, France | |
| Guerlain Drawing Prize 2014, Palais de la Bourse, Paris, France | |
| 2013 | Guerlain Donation, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France |
| FlowerCastle, Sculpture Garden Kasteel Keukenhof, Lisse, The Netherlands | |
| The Future’s not what it used to be, The Exchange, Penzance, UK | |
| 2012 | Matt Bryans and Wojciech Bakowski, Martin Van Zomeren, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| The Future’s not what it used to be, Chapter, Cardiff, UK | |
| 2011 | From A to B through C, Kortars Muveszek Galeria, Budapest, Hungary |
| 2010 | Contemporary Drawings, Musee des Beaux Arts de Besancon, France |
| Public House, Moot, London, UK | |
| 2009 | Pastiche 3, VAKs Skulpturudstilling, Jyderup, Denmark |
| Dessins, Salon du dessin, Palais de la Bourse, Paris, France | |
| 2008 | The Melody of Youth a project with Sam Basu Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| Stray Alchemists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China | |
| Anatomie les peau du dessin, Collection Florence and Daniel Guerlain, Frac de Picardie, Amiens, France | |
| 2007 | The Juddykes, The Old Art Shop at John Jones, London, UK |
| Sans Titre – Travaux sur Papier, Galerie Art Concept, Paris, France | |
| 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, U.S.A |
| Bryans, Basu, Vaule, Flaca, London, UK | |
| Out of Line, drawings from the Sherry and Joel Mallin collection, Johnson Museum, Cornell University, New York, U.S.A | |
| 2005 | Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, U.S.A |
| Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A | |
| 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, Germany | |
| Future Primitive, curated by Paul Johnson, One in the Other, London, UK | |
| Happy Darkness, André Viana Gallery, Porto, Portugal | |
| Britannia Works, British Council survey show, Athens, Greece | |
| The Bart Wells Institute of London, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand | |
| 2003 | Groupshow, Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2002 | May It Return In Spades, Bart Wells Institute, London, UK |
| Flower Bed, Cremer Street Studios, London, UK | |
| Clear as Mud, Hoxton Jubilee, London, UK | |
| 2001 | If the Wind Changes You’ll Stay Like That, Mafuji Gallery, London, UK |
| 2000 | Hellseher, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Music Hall, Truman Brewery, London, UK | |
| EDUCATION | |
| 1999-01 | MA Fine Art, Chelsea School of Art, London |
| 1996-99 | BA Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, UK |
| PUBLICATIONS | |
| 2014 | Curtains are Cunts/ Abridged four children, Apis Press |
| Lands, French and English, Treignac Project | |
| Lands, Norwegian and English, Hordaland Kunsenter | |
| 2013 | Two Dogs Fucking, artist publication |
| Head-Man Chronicle, artist publication | |
| Curtains are Cunts, artist publication | |
| 2008 | Frieze Yearbook 2008-9, Frieze Art Fair |
| Fowle, Kate (edited by), Stray Alchemists, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing | |
| 2006 | Rosenthal, Norman (foreword by), Matt Bryans, Kate MacGarry/Veenman publishers |
| SELECTED PRESS | |
| 2012 | Borgen, Trond, “Sporsikring med omsorg”, Stavanger Aftenblad, 16th March, 30 |
| Næsheim, Eli, “En Internasjonal Kunst-overraskelse fra Ålgård,” Stavanger Aftenblad, 8th March, 34 | |
| Nerheim, Ole S., “Bryans i Ølhallene,” Rogalands Avis, 7th March, 25 | |
| 2011 | Howerton, Michael, “Worlds, lost and found,” SF Examiner, 7th July |
| Sussman, Matt, “Fake-out,” SF Bay Guardian, 28th June | |
| Somner, Danielle, “It’s all about the landscape,” KQED ARTS, 23rd June | |
| 2009 | Tramposch, Emma, “Past is an image we form in the present,” Camerawork, Vol 35, Fall-Winter, 4-7 |
| 2008 | Carey Kent, Paul, “Matt Bryans,” Art World, Aug/Sept, 72-5 |
| Brown, Eleanor, “Matt Bryans,” The Artpaper, Summer, 20, 21, 26 | |
| 2007 | Auslander, Philip, “Matt Bryans,” Artforum, March, 324-5 |
| McClintock, Dinah, “Matt Bryans + Demetrius Oliver,” Art Papers, Jan/Feb, 49 | |
| 2006 | Williams, Gilda, “Matt Bryans,” Artforum, April, 305 |
| Satz. Aura, “Matt Bryans,” Tema Celeste, March/April, n. 114, 85 | |
| Tatley, Roger, “Emerging Artists: Matt Bryans. Roger Tatley meets the new Eraserhead,” Modern Painters, March, 56-58 | |
| 2005 | Harris, Jonathan, “Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing,” Art Monthly, January February |
| Lack, Jessica, “Pin-Up, Pick of the Week,” The Guardian, 3rd January | |
| Güner, Fisun, “The Art Just Doesn’t Cut It,” Metro Life, 6th January | |
| 2004 | Graham-Dixon, Andrew, “All stuck and scribbled,” The Sunday Telegraph, 19th December, 112 |
| Cripps, Charlotte, “Work at the Cutting Edge,” The Independent Review, 2nd December, 18 | |
| “Newsnight Review,” BBC2, 10 December | |
| 2003 | “Sit up and Take Notice,” Dazed and Confused, February, 38 |
Exhibitions
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