Born 1975, Tacoma, United States. Lives and works in Berlin, New York and Boston
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
2024
Six Landscapes, duo with Daniele Genadry, Institute of Arab and Islamic Art, United States
2023
The Distances, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, United States
2020
Weaving, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
Matt Saunders, Librarie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Poems of Our Climate, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2017
Qiao Space, TANK Project Space, Houston, United States
Tank Shanghai Project Space, China
Currents 114, St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri, United States
2016
Inondé, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Two Worlds, Blum & Poe, Shibuya Tokyo, Japan
2015
Matt Saunders, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York City, United States
Matt Saunders, Editions at BORCHs Butik, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Slow fading Hand, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013
Matt Saunders: Century Rolls, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York City, United States
2012
Tate Liverpool, Century Rolls, Liverpool, United Kingdom
The Movies That Were Secret Remain Secret Somehow and A Nation Forgets Its Pleasures, Project For The Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center For The Visual Arts, Harvard University, United States
Pleasures, Project For The Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center For The Visual Arts, Harvard University, United States
2011
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
2010
Parallel Plot, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, United States
People on Sunday, Harris Lieberman, New York City, United States
Occasionals and Danger Men, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Buster, Clockwork, Berlin, Germany
2009
Binsey Poplars, Harris Lieberman, New York City, United States
2008
Art Statements, Art|39|Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Gallery Andreas Grimm, Munich, Germany
2007
Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Prison Scene, Martin Asbaek Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark
House Arrest, Homie, Berlin, Germany
2006
Harris Lieberman, New York City, United States
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
Grimm / Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
2004
Grimm / Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
2003
Slept, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York City, United States
Two Videos, Sert Gallery, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, United States
2001
Screen Test, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
1999
Matt Saunders (organized by Ada Polla), In Vitro Alternative Space, Geneva, Switzerland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Six Landscapes: Daniele Genadry & Matt Saunders, Institute of Arab and Islamic Art, New York, United States
2022
WE PAINT, Ecole des Beaux arts de Paris (ENSBA), Paris, France
American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York City, United States
Kelly Nipper and Matt Saunders: ROSE MADDER MIRROR TIME MARKER, Grice Bench, Los Angeles, United States
2020
Photography’s Last Century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, United States
2019
All the Marvelous Surfaces: Photography Since Karl Blossfeldt, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachussets, United States
Duets, BORCH Gallery. Berlin, Germany
2018
The World on Paper, Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Summer in BORCHs Butik, Copenhagen, Denmark
High Noon, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany
A brune figure in winter evening resists identity, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany
2017
Screens: Virtual Material, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, United States
In the Abstract, MASS MoCA, North Adams, United States
2016
Double-take: Drawing and Photography, Drawing Room and The Photographer’s Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Le Prix Jean-François Prat, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2015
Images that Speak, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Summer in the City no.10, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Rest Is Silence: Agnes Martin, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
2014
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013
Test Pattern, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
VIDEO, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Theatrical Gestures, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
2012
Harris Lieberman, New York City, United States
The 2012 de Cordova Biennial, Lincoln, United States
Still, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
The 2012 de Cordova Biennial, de Cordova Museum, Lincoln, United States
2011
Plot for a Biennial, Sharjah Biennial 2011, United Arab Emirates (catalog)
The Anxiety of Photography, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, United States
The Ephemeral, Arndt, Berlin, Germany
2010
Stop. Move., Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, United States
Sassa Trülzsch, Berlin, Germany
Ratio 3, San Francisco, United States
2009
Untitled (History Painting): Painting and Public Life in the 21st Century, University of Michigan Museum of Art, United States
PRIVATE VIEW II, Andreas Grimm Munchen, Munich, Germany
Unaddressed Circumventions: Folds From a Failed Suicide, Gresham’s Ghost, New York City, United States
A Twilight Art, Harris Lieberman, New York City, United States
2008
Passageworks: Contemporary Art from the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, United States
Politics, Maisterra Valbuena Galeria, Madrid, Spain
Freeway Balconies, curated by Collier Schorr, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
2007
Sweet Bird of Youth (curated by Hedi Slimane), Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
Blind Date Istanbul, Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Tiere II, Kuhstall Moosalpe, Thalkirchdorf/Allgäu, Oberstaufen, Germany
2006
Back to the Figure: Contemporary Painting, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
Liquid Paper – Pure Land, Ratio 3, San Francisco, United States
2005
Founders Day, Grimm/Rosenfeld, New York City, United States
The Parable Show, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
Log Cabin, Artists Space, New York City, United States
2004
Hotel Hollywood (curator: Swetlana Heger), Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Austria
She’s Come Undone, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, United States
Works on Paper, Southfirst, Brooklyn, United States
2003
Lazarus Effect, Prague Biennial 1, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Veletrzni Palac (curated by Lauri Firstenberg), Prague, Czech Republic
2003
Fair Play, Play Gallery for Still and Motion Pictures, Berlin, Germany
Game Over, Grimm / Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, United States
2002
Immediate Gesture, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York City, United States
On Paper, Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich, Germany
Enough About Me (curated by Deborah Kass), Momenta Art, Brooklyn, United States
MFA Thesis Show 2002,Yale University School of Art, New Haven, United States
2001
B-Hotel, P.S.1, Long Island City, United States
Wight Biennial Twothousandandone, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, United States
1999
Beyond Flaming, Galerie Atelier A48, Grenoble, France
AWARDS
2022
American Academy of Arts and Letters
2015
Rappaport Prize, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
2013
Prix Jean-François Prat
2009
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
2001
Robert Schoelkopf Fellowship
1997
Louis Sudler Prize
Thomas T. Hoopes Prize
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Guggenheim Museum, New York
UCLA Hammer Museum, Calfornia
Yale University Art Gallery
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
