MATTHEW DAY JACKSON
 

WORKS
EXHIBITIONS: 2008
PRESS
BIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHY

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1974
• Born Panorama City, CA

1997
• BFA University of Washington, Seattle WA

2001
• MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

2009
• NHRA License, Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School, Gainesville, FL
• Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012
In Search Of, Gereente Museum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands

2011
Heel Gezellig, GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Everything Leads to Another, Hauser & Wirth, London, England
• MAMBO, Bologna, Italy
• Germeente Museum, Helm, The Netherlands
• Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

2010
The Tomb, Peter Blum Soho, Manhattan, NY
In Search Of, Peter Blum Chelsea, Manhattan, NY

2009
Gezellig, Gallerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, FL
Matthew Day Jackson/Rashid Johnson, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery at FIAC, Cour Carrée de Louvre, Paris (two-person exhibition)
Dynamic Maximum Tension, Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
High, Low and In Between, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Matthew Day Jackson: The Immeasurable Distance, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (travels to: Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX)

2008
Drawings from Tlön, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Terranaut, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY

2007
The Lower 48, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
Paradise Now! (The Salvage), Workspace: Matthew Day Jackson, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin TX (January 12 - March 25)

2006
Paradise Now! (Limbo) featuring "Looking for Mother Nature" Cubitt Artists Space, London, England
Paradise Now! Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland OR
Oracle (Days of Future Passed) Mario Diacono at Ars Libri,Boston, MA

2005
• Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY

2004
By No Means Necessary, The Locker Plant, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
Artprojx Cinema (in association with Armory 2011),New York, NY
Autobody, Curated by Neville Wakefield, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX

2010
How Soon Now , The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
• Curator's Choice Portfolio, Curated by Tom Morton, et al. Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London for CUBITT
Home and Origin , Bukowskis, Stockholm, Curated bt Rodrigo Mallea Lira
Born in Dystopia , An Exhibition by Steve and Chiara Rosenblum, Rosenblum Collection & Friends, Paris, France
Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space 2000-2010, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
The Franks-Suss Collection Philips de Pury's Space at the Saatchi Gallery, curated by Tamar Arnon and Eli Zagury, London, England
Roundtrip: Beijing - New York, New Selections from the Domus Collection, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Hope!, Palais des arts et du Festival, Dinard, France
New Paintings, Grimm, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
\ (LEAN), Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY

2009
The World is Yours, Louisana Museum of Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
Alejandro Jodorowsky's "Dune": An Exhibition of a Film of a Book That Never Was, The Drawing Room, London, UK (September 17-October 25), Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK (April 3-May 16, 2010)
Deceitful Moon, Hayward Project Space, London, UK
Mapping the Studio: Artists fron the François Pinault Collection, Punta Della Dogana, Venice, Italy, Curated by Francesco Bonari and Alison M. Gingeras

2008
Heartland, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Can Art Do More? Art Focus 5, Jerusalem, Israel, Curated by Ami Barak and Bernard Blistène
Beyond a memorable Fancy, EFA Project Space, The Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY Curated my Michelle Levy
Violet Hour, Henry Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Palimpset, gallerie Xippas, Paris, France
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Mission: to interpret and understand contemporary art, Barbican Gallery, London, UK
*The Old, Weird America, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
Supernature, Howard house, Seattle WA

2007
To Build a Fire, Rivington Arms, New York, NY (April 13 - May 12)
Omission, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
Uncertain States of America—American Art in the 3rd Millenium, Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark (March 3 - 15), Warsaw, Poland (March), Moscow Biennale (January), Beijing Biennale (October), Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece (Fall 2007)
• Rivington Arms, New York, NY (April 14)

2006
USA Today, Royal Academy of Art, London, England
• Kamp: K48, John Connelly Presents, Scott Hug Curator, New York, NY
• The Searchers, White Box, New York, NY
*Uncertain States of America—American Art in the 3rd Millenium, Museum Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Serpentine Gallery, London, England, Reykjavik Art Museum, Denmark,
• Mario Diacono Fine Art, Allston MA
25 Bold Moves, House of Campari, New York, NY
• *Whitney Biennial, 'Day for Night', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Infinite Painting, Villa Manin Centre for Comtemporary Art, Passariano, Codroipo, Italy
Time-Based Art is Happening! Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, New York, NY

2005
Material World, Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY
Sticks and Stones, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
Studio: Seven Months of My Aesthetic Education (Plus Some) NYC Version and Climaxed, Tony OurslerStudio, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
You Are Here, The Ballroom, Marfa, TX
Motion, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
Bridge Freezes Before Road, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NY
The Greater New York, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY

2004
Mommy! I! am! not! an! animal!, Capsule Gallery, New York, NY
Relentless Proselytzers, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
Super Salon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Drift III, Valentino Pier Park, Brooklyn, NY

2003
K48: Klubhouse, Deitch projects, Brooklyn, NY
Spiritual Hunger, Daniel Silverstein Gallery New York, NY
Drift II, site specific exhibition at the former home of Buckminster Fuller, Northern NJ
White, Black, Yellow, Red, Storefront 1838, New York, NY
• Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland ME

2002
Drift, environmental exhibition, Manasquan, NJ

2001
…sorta like a revelation, Rabbett Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ

1999
Sans Titre, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2010
• Frankel, David, "Matthew Day Jackson," Artforum, December
• Wells, Nicolas, "Matthew Day Jackson: In Search Of," City Arts, October 27 – November 6
• Coffield, Cynthia "Matthew Day Jackson {read more}" Art Lies, Spring 2010
• Arning, Bill, "Matthew Day Jackson, Mens Et Manus," Flash Art, January

2009
Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation. London: Phaidon.
• Vogel, Carol, "AThriftier Lot Comes to Basel This Year," The New York Times, June 12
• Ragona, Melissa, "Matthew Day Jackson," Frieze, March

2008
• Kastner, Jeffrey, "Matthew Day Jackson," Artforum, December
• Maine, Stephen, "Matthew Day Jackson," Art in America, November
• Rosenberg, Karen, "Art in Review: Matthew Day Jackson," The New York Times, October 17
• Wakeling, Lance, "Micro-review: The Gravity of Source Material." Vertexlistblog, September 30
• Kamps, Toby, "Matthew Day Jackson," In: Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art (Exhibition Catalogue) Houston: Comtemporary Art Museum Houston

2007
• "Matthew Day Jackson: Paradise Now! (Limbo)," Art Review, Feb 2007 p. 159
• Cole, Lori. "Omission", Artforum.com, www.artforum.com/archive/id=12719, Jan. 2007
• Coomer, Martin. "Welcome to My World", Art Review, Oct. 2007

2006
• Jones, Kristin M., "Matthew Day Jackson", Frieze, March 06, pp. 167
• Moore, Jenny. "Matthew Day Jackson" In: Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night (Exhibition Catalogue) New York: Whitney Museum of Art
• Peterson, Isaac D., "Interview with Matthew Day Jackson", PORT, June 27, 06
• Motley, John. "Matthew Day Jackson", PICA, Sept. 2006

2005
• "Spread Your Wings For Peace: Pheonix," Village Voice, Dec 21-27, Vol. L No. 51
• Smith, Roberta. "Spotting an Aesthetic Dispute and Embracing All Sides," The New York Times, Dec 17, pp. B13.
• Kerr, Merrily. "Matthew Day Jackson". V36 Magazine, 2005.2005
• Giovannotti, Micaela. "the greater new york 2005," Tema Celeste, no. 109, May/Jun, p.98.
• Ho, Christopher K. "In View: Greater New York 2005," Modern Painters. May, pp 105-6.
• "Our Selection A-Z," The Art Newspaper, no. 157, Apr. p.2.
• Rosenberg, Karen. "Artists on the Verge of a Breakthrough," New York Magazine, Mar 7, pp 34-6.
• Nickas, Bob. "First Take," Artforum, vol XLIII, no. 5 Jan, pp155-6.

2004
• Johnson, Ken. The New York Times, Aug 6, p. E32.
• Levin, Kim. The Village Voice, July 28.

2001
• Phillips, Lisa (juror). New American Paintings: The MFA Annual 2001. Open Studios Press, Boston MA.


RESIDENCIES

• Lower East Side Printshop, New York, 2007
• Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Or, 2006
• Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, Summer 2002
• Visiting artist at The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX, June 2004