Matthew Ritchie

works

biography

bibliography

Previous shows:
Matthew Ritchie – The Need-fire, 2009
Matthew Ritchie – After The Father Costume, 2003

 

Biography

Born 1964. Lives and works in New York


Education

1983–86 Camberwell School of Art, London (BFA)
1982 Boston University, MA


Solo Exhibitions

2009
c/o – Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
The Morning Line, CAAC, Sevilla
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
The Last Scattering, Arup AGU, London (June 2009)

2008
Ghost operator, White Cube, London
Experiment Marathon Reykjavik, Reykjavik Art Museum – Kjarvalssta∂ir, Reykjavik

2007
New Media Series: Matthew Ritchie, The Iron City, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

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
Matthew Ritchie: Proposition Player, MASS MoCA, North Adams,
The Two-Way Shot, 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

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
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 YorkBetween Art and Life, SFMoMA, San Francisco
Confines, IVAM, Valencia
Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego
The Kaleidoscopic Eye, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2008
Experiment Marathon Reykjavik, Reykjavik Art Museum – Kjarvalssta∂ir, Reykjavik
Biennale Architecture 11th International Architecture Exhibition; Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, directed by Aaron Betsky, Venice
International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Sevilla
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary – Sammlung als Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
The Guggenheim Collection, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis, The Jewish Museum San Francisco

2007
Paintings Edge, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA & Riverside Museum, Riverside, CA
Not for Sale, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York

2006
Nature Attitudes, T-B A21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna

2005
In Private Hands: 200 Years of American Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, (catalogue)
Radar: Selections from the Kent and Vicki Logan Collection, Denver Museum of Art, Denver
Swarm, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (catalogue)
Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Return to Space, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, (catalogue)

2004
26. Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
Was Malerei heute ist, Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Germany
Fabulism, curated by Klaus Kertess, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
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, Greece
The Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony – Emerging Resonances. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

2003
Hands Up, Baby, Hands Up! 160 Jahre Oldenburger Kunstverein, 160 Arbeiten auf Papier, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg GER
Journey to now, Art Gallery of South Australia, John Kaldor Art Projects and
Collection, Adelaide, Australia
GNS. Global Navigation System, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (Jun 7–Sept. 7)
Painting Pictures. Malerei und Medien im digitalen Zeitalter (Painting and Media in the Digital Age), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (Mar 1–Jun 29)

2002
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions", MoMA QNS, New York, USA
Reverberator, Houldsworth, London, E
(The World May Be) Fantastic, Biennale of Sydney 2002, Sydney, Australia, May 15–Jul 14, 2003 (cat.)
Flights of Reality, Cambridge, UK, Jan 12–Mar 3, 2002 (cat.) trav. to
The Turnpike Gallery, Greater Manchester , UK, Apr 20–Jun 8, 2002
Sprawl, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Urgent Painting, LARC/ Museum d'Art Moderne, Paris, Jan.15–Mar3
Virgine Barré+Christophe Berdaguer&Marie Péjus+Alain Declercq+Michael Elmgreen&Ingar Dragset+Naomi Fischer+Gelatin+Subodh Gupta+Alexander Györfi+Kay Hassan+Gunilla Klingberg+Surasi Kusolwong+Michel Majerus+Paola Pivi+Matthew Ritchie+Franck Scurti+Wang-Du+Sisley Xhafa+Jun'ya Yamaide, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Jan 21–Apr 21, 2002

2001
Form Follows Fiction, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Miami MoCA, Miami, Florida
Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 – Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
010101: Art in Technological Times, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA
Pictures, Patents, Monkeys and More…On Collecting, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, traveling to:
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
The Mystery of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, München, D
Futureland 2001, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, D (cat.) (current)
All Systems Go, Houston Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joanou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens, GR (cat.)
Mapping Art and Science Exhibition, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Hyper Mental. Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950–2000, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, D (cat.)

2000
Hyper Mental. Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950–2000, Kunsthaus Zürich, CH (cat.)
00 – Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY (cat.)
Jules Verne – Les Mondes Inventés. Vision Machine, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, F (cat.)
Museum, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NO (cat.)
Drawing Spaces, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Unnatural Science, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
Faith, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Figures in the Landscape, Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

1999
Best of the Season, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Story, A/C Project Room, New York, NY
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA
Conceptual Art as Neurobiological Praxis, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Hindsight – Recent Acquisitions and Gifts from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Mondo Immaginario, Shedhalle, Zürich, CH
Drawn by... , Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Continued Investigation of the Relevance of Abstraction, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY

1998
More Fake, More Real, Yet Ever Closer, Castle Art Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY (cat.)
Painting Now and Forever, Part 1, Matthew Marks Gallery & Pam Heam Gallery, NY
Exploiting the Abstract, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
Art Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianpolis, IN
Parallel Worlds, South-East Center of Contemporary Art,
North Carolina, NC
Deep Thought, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY
Codex USA, Entwistle Gallery, London, GB
Transatlantico, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, ES

1997
Whitney Biennial 1997, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (cat.)
Map the Gap, Storefront of Art & Architecture, NY
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC (cat.)
Objectif Lune, CAN Centre d`Art Neuchatel, Neuchatel, CH
Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts & Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (cat.)
In-form, Bravin Post Lee, New York, NY
Météo-show, Galerie Météo, Paris, F

1996
New Work: Drawings Today, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Screen, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
The Body of Painting, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA
Verrückt, Museum der Stadt, Arolsen, D (cat.)
Between the Acts, Ice Box, Athen, GR (cat.)
Between the Acts, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo, NO
Architecture/Application/Complication, Room, New York, NY
AbFab, Feature, New York, NY
Adicere Animos, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporeanea e Pinacoteca Nazionale, Cesena, I (cat.)
A Scattering Matrix, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (cat.)

1995
Ten + Ten, New York Studio School, New York, NY
Möbius Strip, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY (cat.)
A Vital Matrix, domestic setting gallery, Los Angeles, CA (cat.)
Color: Sing, System, Sensibility, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Fling, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY
Verrückt, Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg, D
Anecdote by Juxtaposition #1, Livet Reichard Co., New York, NY

1994
Grey, Grodesky, Judd, Ritchie, Smithson, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY
modus operandi, Leonora Vega, New York, NY
The Circumscribed Imagination on the Ruins of Tradition, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA
Matthew Ritchie and Nestor Otero, Leonora Vega Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1993
Black Room, Natalie Rivera, New York, NY
New York, San Juan & Toronto, Leonoara Vega, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Inconsequent, Natalie Rivera, New York, NY

1992
9 x 2, Artist´s Space, New York, NY
Muraneshi & Lederman, New York, NY

1991
Blood, JAARY, FL

1990
David McCraig & Matthew Rtichie, Judy Nielsen Gallery, Chicago, MI


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