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Matt Mullican was born in 1951 in Santa Monica; he lives and works in Berlin and New York.
Matt Mullican has always worked by adopting different kind of media, from performance to environment installation, from sculpture to computer graphics. His work oscillates between various antagonisms, reality and fiction, subject and object, the conscious and the unconscious, to work on our perception, defined less by the objective reality of the visible than by the projection of subjective experiences. 
From the mid-Seventies he acts in performance, which achieves under hypnosis to experience states of regression or personality change, allowing to treat his own psyche. His solo exhibitions include: Matt Mullican, Hangar Bicocca, Milano (2018 ), The Sequence of
Things, Camden Arts Centre, London (2016), That Person and That World, The Kitchen, New York (2016), Organizing the World, Haus der Kunst, München (2011), Learning From that Person’s Work, Ludwig Museum, Köln (2005). His group exhibitions include: Walk-In And Expansive Works From The Museion Collection, Museion Foundation, Bolzano (2017); La Grande Madre, Palazzo Reale, Milan (2015), This Will Have Been Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2012), Under the Big Black Sun: California Arts 1974-81, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2011). 
His works have been exhibited at the Vienna Biennale (2017), at the 53th Venice Biennale curated by Massimiliano Gioni (2013), at the Gwangju Biennale (2010), at the 28th San Paolo Biennale (2008) and a three Documenta editions (1997, 1993, 1982).

Matt Mullican

UNITITLED (CENTERED OVERALL CHART), 2021
Oil stick on canvas
200 × 200 cm / 78 3/4 × 78 3/4 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED (CENTERED OVERALL CHART: FRAME), 2021
Oil stick on canvas
100 × 100 cm / 39 3/8 × 39 3/8 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED (CENTERED OVERALL CHART: SIGN), 2021
Oil stick on canvas
100 × 100 cm / 39 3/8 × 39 3/8 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED (CENTER CHART FRAMED), 2021
Banner, cotton
300 × 300 cm / 118 1/8 × 118 1/8 inches

Matt Mullican

3D OVERALL CHART, 2021
SLS 3D Print, Plastic
45 × 22.8 × 45 cm / 17 3/4 × 9 × 17 3/4 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED (THINGS CHANGE IN HEAVEN), 2021
Watercolor on wood
Opera composta da due parti 50 x 40 x 2 cm ciascuna / Artwork made by 2 parts 19 5/8 x 15 3/4 x 3/4 inches each

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED (THINGS CHANGE IN HEAVEN), 2021
Watercolor on wood
50 × 40 cm / 19 5/8 × 15 3/4 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED (OVERALL CHART CENTERED: 12-PARTS BEDSHEET), 2021
Gouache and gesso on fabric sheet
260 × 240 cm / 102 3/8 × 94 1/2 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED (COSMOLOGY 8 PARTS), 2013 (1987)
Oil stick on canvas
244 × 122 cm / 96 1/9 × 48 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED (CITY), 2013 (1987)
Oil stick on canvas
244 × 488 cm / 96 1/9 × 192 1/8 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED (5 WORLDS), 2013 (1987)
Oil stick on canvas
244 × 366 cm / 96 1/9 × 144 1/8 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED (INTEGRATED COSMOLOGY), 2013 (1987)
Oil stick on canvas
244 × 244 cm / 96 1/9 × 96 1/9 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED (HISTORY), 2013 (1987)
Oil stick on canvas
244 × 244 cm / 96 1/9 × 96 1/9 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED (SIGNS), 2013 (1987)
Oil stick on canvas
244 × 244 cm / 96 1/9 × 96 1/9 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED (ANATOMY), 2013 (1987)
Oil stick on canvas
244 × 122 cm / 96 1/9 × 48 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED, 2013
Carved granite
983 × 614 × 2 cm / 387 1/64 × 241 2/3 × 3/4 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED, 2001
Tempera and oil pastel on canvas
120.5 × 241 cm / 47 7/16 × 94 7/8 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED, 2001
Aluminium lightbox, plexiglass, duratrans film
46 × 30 × 15 cm / 18 7/64 × 11 13/16 × 5 29/32 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED, 2001
Aluminium lightbox, plexiglass, duratrans film
46 × 30 × 15 cm / 18 7/64 × 11 13/16 × 5 29/32 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED, 2001
Tempera and oil pastel on canvas
120.5 × 241 cm / 47 7/16 × 94 7/8 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED, 2001
Tempera and oil pastel on canvas
120.5 × 241 cm / 47 7/16 × 94 7/8 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED, 2001
Tempera and oil pastel on canvas
120.5 × 241 cm / 47 7/16 × 94 7/8 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED (SIGN), 1993
Nautical polyester
233 × 150 cm / 91 47/64 × 59 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED, 1993
Oil pastel on paper
100 × 70 cm / 39 3/8 × 27 9/16 inches

Matt Mullican

HOUSE MODEL, 1993
Wood, acrylic
60 × 60 × 10 cm / 23 5/8 × 23 5/8 × 4 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED (WORLD FRAMED), 1993
Nautical polyester
233 × 150 cm / 91 4/6 × 59 1/16 inches

Matt Mullican

UNTITLED, 1980
Cotton banner
145 × 96 cm / 57 3/32 × 37 5/6 inches