GERHARDSEN GERNER
Matthew Ritchie
Biography
Born 1964. Lives and works in New York
Education
1983–86 Camberwell School of Art, London (BFA)
1982 Boston University, MA
Solo Exhibitions
2011
The Likeness of a Crown, Performa Biennal, New York
L & M Arts, Los Angeles
The Long Count, Holland Festival, Amsterdam
The Morning Line, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
2010
The Morning Line, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Istanbul
2009
The Need-fire, c/o – Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
The Last Scattering, Arup AGU, London
Line shot, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
The Morning Line, CAAC, Sevilla
2008
Ghost operator, White Cube, London
2007
New Media Series: Matthew Ritchie, The Iron City , St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
2006
The universal adversary, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2005
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
We want to see some light, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
2004
MASS MoCA, North Adams
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
2003
The Father Costume, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
Proposition: Player, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (cat.)
2002
After Lives, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2001
The Family Farm, White Cube, London
Concentrations 38: The Slow Tide, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (cat.)
2000
Concentrations 38: The slow tide, The Dallas Museum of Art (cat.)
Parents and Children, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
The Fast Set, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (cat.)
The Family Farm, White Cube, London
1999
The Big Story, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland (cat.)
c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo
Statement Art 30 Basel, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Basel
1998
Fundaçaõ Cultural de Distrito Federal, Brasília
Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paolo (cat.)
The Gamblers, Basilico Fine Arts, New York (cat.)
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
1997
Omnivers, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
1996
The Hard Way, Chapter III, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo
The Hard Way, Chapter II, Basilico Fine Arts, New York
The Hard Way, Chapter I, Galerie Météo, Paris (cat.)
1995
Working Model, Basilico Fine Arts, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
Surveyor, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo
2010
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Contemporary Magic, National Arts Club, New York
David Altmejd, Matthew Ritchie, Andrea Zittel , Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Also On View, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2009
Spazialismo, curated by Laura Biereau, Bitforms Gallery, New York
Private Universes, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Mit dem Fahrrad zur Milchstraße. Werke zeitgenössischer Kunst aus der Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden
Confines, IVAM, Valencia (cat.)
Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego
The Kaleidoscopic Eye, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Chelsea visits Havana, 10th Havana Biennial, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA, New York
Between Art and Life, SFMoMA, San Francisco
2008
Biennale Architecture 11th International Architecture Exhibition; Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, directed by Aaron Betsky, Venice
International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Sevilla
In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis, The Jewish Museum San Francisco
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary – Sammlung als Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (cat.)
Experiment Marathon Reykjavik, organized by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Ólafur Elíasson, Reykjavik Art Museum –Kjarvalssta∂ir, Reykjavik (cat.)
The Guggenheim Collection, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
2007
Paintings Edge, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild; travels to: Riverside Museum, Riverside
Not for Sale, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York
The Shapes of Space, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Panic Room – Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
2006
Nature Attitudes, T-B A21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
The Guggenheim Collection, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Remote Viewing. Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis
2005
The Third Eye: Fantasies, Dreams and Visions, Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York (cat.)
In Private Hands: 200 Years of American Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, (cat.)
Radar: Selections from the Kent and Vicki Logan Collection, Denver Museum of Art, Denver
Swarm, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, (cat.)
Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, curated by Elisabeth Sussman, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
Rückkehr ins All, curated by Christoph Heinrich and Markus Heinzelmann, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (cat.)
2004
26. Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, curated by Alfons Hug, São Paulo
Was Malerei heute ist, curated by Beate Kemfert, Opelvillen Rüsselsheim
Fabulism, curated by Klaus Kertess, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
Monument to Now. The Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Dan Cameron, Jeffrey Deitch, Alison M. Gingeras, Massimiliano Gioni, and Nancy Spector, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
The Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony – Emerging Resonances, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2003
GNS. Global Navigation System, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Painting Pictures. Malerei und Medien im digitalen Zeitalter (Painting and Media in the Digital Age), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (cat.)
Hands Up, Baby, Hands Up! 160 Jahre Oldenburger Kunstverein, 160 Arbeiten auf Papier, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg
Journey to now, Art Gallery of South Australia, John Kaldor Art Projects and Collection, Adelaide
2002
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, MoMA QNS, New York
Reverberator, Houldsworth, London
(The World May Be) Fantastic, Biennale of Sydney 2002, Sydney (cat.)
Flights of Reality Kattle’s Yard, University of Cambridge (cat.); The Turnpike Gallery, Greater Manchester
Sprawl, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Urgent Painting, LARC/ Museum d’Art Moderne, Paris
Virgine Barré+Christophe Berdaguer&Marie Péjus+Alain Declercq+Michael Elmgreen&Ingar Dragset+Naomi Fischer+Gelatin+Subodh Gupta+Alexander Györfi+Kay Hassan+gunilla klingberg Klingberg+Surasi Kusolwong+Michel Majerus+Paola Pivi+Matthew Ritchie+Franck Scurti+Wang- Du+Sisley Xhafa+Jun’ya Yamaide, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Once upon a Time, New York State Museum, Albany
2001
Form Follows Fiction, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Castello di Rivoli, Torino
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Miami MoCA, Miami
Collaborations with Parkett: 1984-Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
010101: Art in Technological Times, SFMoMA, San Francisco
Pictures, Patents, Monkeys and More…On Collecting, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham; John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan; Akron Art Museum, Akron; Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh
The Mystery of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, München
Futureland 2001, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
All Systems Go, Houston Contemporary Art Museum, Houston
New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joanou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens (cat.)
Mapping Art and Science Exhibition, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
Hyper Mental. Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950–2000, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg (cat.)
2000
Hyper Mental. Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950–2000, Kunsthaus Zürich (cat.)
00 – Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (cat.)
Jules Verne – Les Mondes Inventés. Vision Machine, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes (cat.)
Museum, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (cat.)
Drawing Spaces, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Unnatural Science, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams
Faith, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
Figures in the Landscape, Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York
Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1999
Best of the Season, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
Story, A/C Project Room, New York
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
Conceptual Art as Neurobiological Praxis, Thread Waxing Space, New York
Hindsight – Recent Acquisitions and Gifts from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Mondo Immaginario, Shedhalle, Zürich
Drawn by... , Metro Pictures, New York
Continued Investigation of the Relevance of Abstraction, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
1998
More Fake, More Real, Yet Ever Closer, Castle Art Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle (cat.)
Painting Now and Forever, Part 1, Matthew Marks Gallery & Pam Heam Gallery
Exploiting the Abstract, Feigen Contemporary, New York
Art Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianpolis
Parallel Worlds, South-East Center of Contemporary Art, North Carolina
Deep Thought, Basilico Fine Arts, New York
Codex USA, Entwistle Gallery, London
Transatlantico, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands
1997
Whitney Biennial 1997, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
Map the Gap, Storefront of Art & Architecture
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (cat.)
Objectif Lune, CAN Centre d`Art Neuchatel, Neuchatel
Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts & Lehmann Maupin, New York (cat.)
In-form, Bravin Post Lee, New York
Météo-show, Galerie Météo, Paris
1996
New Work: Drawings Today, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Screen, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
The Body of Painting, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
Verrückt, Museum der Stadt, Arolsen (cat.)
Between the Acts, Ice Box, Athen (cat.)
Between the Acts, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo
Architecture/Application/Complication, Room, New York
AbFab, Feature, New York
Adicere Animos, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporeanea e Pinacoteca Nazionale, Cesena (cat.)
A Scattering Matrix, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica (cat.)
1995
Ten + Ten, New York Studio School, New York
Möbius Strip, Basilico Fine Arts, New York (cat.)
A Vital Matrix, domestic setting gallery, Los Angeles (cat.)
Color: Sing, System, Sensibility, Stark Gallery, New York
Summer Fling, Basilico Fine Arts, New York
Verrückt, Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg
Anecdote by Juxtaposition #1, Livet Reichard Co., New York
1994
Grey, Grodesky, Judd, Ritchie, Smithson, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York
modus operandi, Leonora Vega, New York
The Circumscribed Imagination on the Ruins of Tradition, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
Matthew Ritchie and Nestor Otero, Leonora Vega Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1993
Black Room, Natalie Rivera, New York
New York, San Juan & Toronto, Leonoara Vega, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Inconsequent, Natalie Rivera, New York
1992
9 x 2, Artist´s Space, New York
Muraneshi & Lederman, New York
1991
Blood, JAARY
1990
David McCraig & Matthew Rtichie, Judy Nielsen Gallery, Chicago
Performances and events
2010
Hypermusic: Ascension, Guggenheim Museum, New York
2009
The Long Count, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn
Hypermusic Prologue; Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with Harvard physicist Lisa Randall and composer Hector Parra
Artist´s projects / Permanent installations
Stare Decisis, Life, Liberty and Pursuit, Wayne Lyman Morse United States Courthouse, Eugene, Oregon, 2006
Games of Chance and Skill, Albert and Barrie Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Deep Six, Shiodome City Center, Tokyo, 2002
Web projects
The New Place, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2001 (on the occasion of the exhibition 010101: Art in Technnological Times, 2001)
Available at www.sfmoma.org/010101
The Hard Way, Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1996
Available at http://adaweb.walkerart.org/influx/hardway/
Games of Chance and Skill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996