Matt Saunders

Born 1975, Tacoma, WA

Lives and works in Berlin

 

Education

2002

Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT (MFA Painting / Printmaking)

1997

Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (BA, Summa Cum Laude, Visual and Environmental Studies)

Solo Exhibitions

2010

'People on Sunday', Harris Lieberman, New York

'Renaissance Society', Chicago

2009 

'Binsey Poplars', Harris Lieberman, New York

2008 

'Art Statements', Art|39|Basel, Basel

Gallery Andreas Grimm, Munich, Germany

2007 

Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva

'Prison Scene', Martin Asbaek Projects, Copenhagen

'House Arrest', Homie, Berlin

2006

'Harris Lieberman', New York

Galerie Almine Rech, Paris

'Grimm / Rosenfeld', Munich

2004 

'Grimm / Rosenfeld', Munich

Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva

2003

'Slept', Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York

'Two Videos', Sert Gallery, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

2001

'Screen Test', Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva

1999

'Matt Saunders, In Vitro Alternative Space', Geneva(organized by Ada Polla)

Group Exhibitions

 

2010

'Sharjah Biennial', United Arab Emirates

'Katarina Burin, Matthew Hale, Matt Saunders', Ratio 3, San Francisco

2009

'Untitled (History Painting): Painting and Public Life in the 21st Century', University of Michigan Museum of Art

'PRIVATE VIEW II', Andreas Grimm Munchen, Munich, Germany

'Unaddressed Circumventions: Folds From a Failed Suicide', Gresham’s Ghost, New York

'A Twilight Art', Harris Lieberman, New York

 

2008 

'Passageworks: Contemporary Art from the Collection', San

Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

'Politics', Maisterra Valbuena Galeria, Madrid, Spain

'Freeway Balconies', curated by Collier Schorr, Deutsche

Guggenheim, Berlin Group exhibitions (cont.)

2006

'Back to the Figure: Contemporary Painting', Kunsthalle der

'Hypo-Kulturstiftung', Munich

'Liquid Paper - Pure Land', Ratio 3, San Francisco

2005

'Founders Day', Grimm/Rosenfeld, New York

'The Parable Show', Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich

Galerie Almine Rech, Paris

Log Cabin', Artists Space, New York

2004 

'Hotel Hollywood', Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis,

'Bregenz', Austria, curated by Swetlana

'don, Artemis Greenberg Van don', Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York

'Works on Paper', Southfirst, Brooklyn

2003 

'Lazarus Effect', Prague Biennial 1, National Gallery

'Veletrzni Palac', Prague, curated by Lauri Firstenberg

'2003 Fair Play', Play Gallery for Still and Motion Pictures, Berlin

'Game Over', Grimm / Rosenfeld

2002  

'Immediate Gesture', Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York

'On Paper', Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich

'Enough About Me', Momenta Art, Brooklyn, curated by Deborah Kass

'MFA Thesis Show 2002',Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

2001

'B-Hotel', P.S.1, Long Island City, NY

'Wight Biennial Twothousandandone', New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles

1999

'Beyond Flaming', Galerie Atelier A48, Grenoble, F

Press

2010

“Review: Matt Saunders/The Renaissance Society.” Newcity  Art, March 2010.

Weinberg, Lauren. Review: ”Parallel Plot.” TimeOut Chicago, March 2010.

2009

Stillman, Nick. Review: “Matt Saunders, Binsey Poplars.” Artforum, Summer 2009.

Marshall, Piper. “Critics’ Pick: Matt Saunders.”

Artforum.com, March 2009.

“Medium Cool, Best of Photography: Matt Saunders,”  TimeOut NY Issue 705, April 2-8, 2009.

“Twilight Art.” Carefully Aimed Darts.blogspot.com, February 2009.

Schwendener, Martha. “Get Your Anxiety Right Here.”

Village Voice, February 25, 2009.

Latimer, Quinn. “Matt Saunders, Andreas Grimm, Munich.” Frieze, January 2009.

2007

Turvey, Lisa. “Openings: Matt Saunders.” Artforum, February 2007.

2006

“Art in Review: Matt Saunders.” The New York Times, February 24, 2006.

Stillman, Nick. “Critics’ Pick: Matt Saunders.”

Artforum.com, February 2006.

2005

Smith, Roberta.  “Art in Review: Founders Day.” The New  York Times, August 19, 2005.

2004

Berwick, Carly.  “Matt Saunders (Review).” ARTnews, January 2004.

Schambelan, Elizabeth.  “Works on Paper.”  Artforum.com, 14 February 2004.

2003

Schambelan, Elizabeth.  “Critics’ Pick: Matt Saunders.”

Artforum.com, September 2003.

Mar, Alex.  The New York Sun, 24 July 2003.

2001

Haendel, Karl.  “Beyond Relativism” (catalogue).   Wight  Biennial Twothousandandone, 2001.

1999

“Le Vampirisme selon Matt Saunders.”  Tribune de Genève, 3  May, 1999.

“Fair Play.” Boiler Magazine, 1999. Madoff, Steven Henry.  “Matt Saunders.”  ART ON THE EDGE:  17 Contemporary Artists, 61-64.

Awards

 

2001

Robert Schoelkopf Fellowship

1997

Louis Sudler Prize

Thomas T. Hoopes Prize

Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

UCLA Hammer Museum, Calfornia

Yale University Art Gallery

Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge