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Eureka, USA, 1972. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
2022 - Now We Are Six , MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris, F
2019
2019 - Matthew Monahan, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
2018
2018 - frNMEz, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2016
2016 - Matthew Monahan, Museo Nazionale Romano in Palazzo Altemps, Roma, I
2016 - Shut-ins and Shootouts, Massimo De Carlo, London, UK
2014
2014 - Matthew Monahan, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA. Catalogue
2014 - Luggage and Observations, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, D
2012
2012 - Matthew Monahan, Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CDN
2012 - Kaikai Kiki, Tokyo, J
2012 - Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2012 - Stuart Shave Modern Art, London, UK
2011
2011 - Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2011 - Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
2010
2010 - Matthew Monahan, Massimo De Carlo, Milano, I
2010 - Matthew Monahan, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA. Catalogue
2009
2009 - Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
2008
2008 - Matthew Monahan: A World of Damages, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA. Catalogue
2007
2007 - Focus: Matthew Monahan, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
2007 - African Masks and Fetishes, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, IRL. Catalogue
2006
2006 - Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
2005
2005 - Matthew Monahan, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2005 - Matthew Monahan, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
2003
2003 - Matthew Monahan, Anton Kern Gallery - Project Gallery, New York, USA
2002
2002 - Matthew Monahan, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2002 - Nameless Man From Not-Even-Anywhere, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
2002 - Civilized Special Zone, Lara Schnitger and Matthew Monahan, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, PRC
2000
2000 - Gozaimas, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, NL
1999
1999 - Like Stink on a Monkey, Archipel, Apeldoorn, NL
1999 - Artist's Proof, Bureau Leeuwarden/Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
1998
1998 - Fools Gold, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, NL
1998 - Figuring Out, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
1997
1997 - Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
1997 - Mum's Tattoo, (with Thomas Houseago), Sien La, Antwerp, B
1996
1996 - Zeno's Quiver, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
2022 - Balancing Act, MASSIMODECARLO, Milano, I
2021
2021 - Villa Chiuminatto, Villa Chiuminatto, Torino, I
2020
2020 - London Collective - Dennis Kardon and Matthew Monahan, Vortic Collect, Massimo De Carlo, London, UK
2019
2019 - Artzuid 2019, Art Zuid Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
2019 - California Artists from the Marciano Collection, Marciano Collection, Los Angeles, USA
2019 - People, Deitch LA, Los Angeles, USA
2019 - Acquisitions 2018, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, NL
2018
2018 - E dimmi che non vuoi morire: il mito di Niobe, Santuario di Ercole Vincitore, Tivoli, I
2018 - Contemporary dialogues with Tintoretto, curated by Ludovico Pratesi, Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, Venezia, I
2018 - People, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
2017
2017 - The Trick Brain, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Aishti Foundation, Beirut , LB
2017 - Carnival, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong, HK
2017 - Nerve Center, The Pit, Los Angeles, USA
2016
2016 - Self, Massimo De Carlo, London, UK
2015
2015 - Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, curated by Joseph Wolin, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham; Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus; Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York; Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland;, Durham, USA
2015 - The Los Angeles Project, UCCA, Beijing, PRC
2015 - Affinities #2, Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2014
2014 - The Los Angeles Project, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art , Beijing, PRC
2014 - Affinities #1, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
2014 - Love Story - Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection, Winter Palace & 21er Haus, Wien, A
2014 - The Body Metonymic: International Contemporary Sculpture, curated by Dick Goody, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, USA
2013
2013 - The Bronze Age, Massimo De Carlo, Milano, I
2013 - ll Palazzo Enciclopedico - 55. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Biennale di Venezia, Venezia,
2013 - Theatrical Gestures, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, IL
2013 - 53° Biennale di Venezia - Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, La Biennale di Venezia, Giardini - Arsenale, Venezia, I
2012
2012 - Tracing the Century: Drawing from Tate Collection, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2012 - Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2012 - Chasm of the Supernova, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, USA
2012 - Without Hope, Without Fear, Mottahedan Projects, Al Quoz, Dubai, UAE
2012 - It's Always Summer on the Inside, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2011
2011 - Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, USA
2011 - We Will Live, We Will See, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
2011 - The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2011 - Statuesque, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, USA
2011 - The Artist's Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
2010
2010 - Statuesque, curated by Nicholas Baume, City Hall Park, New York, USA
2010 - Outside the Box, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2010 - OH CRISIS!, Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam, NL
2010 - At Home/Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Marty and Rebecca Eisenberg, Bard College, New York, USA
2010 - Mineral Spirits, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
2009
2009 - Il Giardino dei Lauri, Città della Pieve, I
2009 - California Maximalism, Nyehaus, New York, USA
2008
2008 - Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur, curated by Anna Tilroe, Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem, NL
2008 - Family and Friends, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2008 - Base: Object, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
2008 - Annual Report: a Year in Exhibitions, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, ROK
2008 - Life on Mars. The 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
2008 - Sphinxx, curated by Alexis Vaillant, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
2008 - Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London, UK
2008 - Kaikai Kiki Artists, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, J
2008 - Ma Bête Noire, Phil Art, Los Angeles, USA
2007
2007 - Unmonumental, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
2007 - Effigies, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
2007 - Eden's Edge: Fifteen La Artists, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2007 - Eight Sculptors from Los Angeles, Galerie Sabine Knust - Maximilian Verlag, München, D
2007 - Uneasy Angel/Imagine Los Angeles, Sprüth Magers, München, D
2007 - Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, GR. Catalogue
2007 - An Archaeology, Projectspace 176 – Zabludowicz Collection, London, GB, Projectspace 176 – Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
2006
2006 - Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA. Catalogue
2006 - Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
2006 - USA Today, Royal Academy, London, UK
2006 - 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin Biennial, Berlin, D
2005
2005 - Both Ends Burning, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2004
2004 - Remembering, curated by Charles Gaines, UC Riverside Gallery, Riverside CA, USA
2004 - To Be Recycled, Six Months, Los Angeles, USA
2004 - MB: the Mary Blair Story (with My Barbarian), Redcat, Los Angeles, USA
2003
2003 - Tussen Droom en Daad, Fonds BK, Amsterdam, NL
2003 - Group Show - New Work by Gallery Artists, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
2001
2001 - Group Show, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
2001 - Mean Mercy, TENT, Rotterdam, NL
2001 - I Love NY, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2001 - Free-standing, Beaver College Art Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2001 - 11 x Dutch Art, National Center for Art, St. Petersburg, RUS
2001 - The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
2000
2000 - Exorcism Aesthetic Terrorism, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
1999
1999 - ArtLovers, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
1999 - Group Show, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
1999 - Subreal / The Human Condition, LA International Biennial, Inmo Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1999 - Glad Ijs/Thin Ice, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
1999 - Jars I, Kunstcentrum, Sittard, NL
1998
1998 - Exterminating Angel, curated by Joshua Dector , Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, F
1998 - Going Up the Country, ACHK De Paviljoens, Almere, NL
1998 - Morning Glory, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
1997
1997 - Mum's Tattoo (with Thomas Houseago), curated by Luc Tuymans, Sien, Antwerp, NL
1997 - Night at Life, curated by Hoyt Brown, Life, New York, USA