Matthew Brannon
Matthew Brannon
Born 1971 St. Maries, Idaho
Lives & works in New York
Education
1999
MFA Columbia University, New York
1995
BA, University of California, Los Angeles
Solo exhibitions
2010
Emotional Leash (tbc), David Kordansky, Los Angeles, USA (forthcoming)
Wife (tbc), Gió Marconi Gallery, Italy (forthcoming)
Reservations, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Germany
2009
Nevertheless, The Approach, London
2008
The Question is a Compliment, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Grandmothers, Galleria Gio Marconi, Milan
2007
Where Were We, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York
Try & Be Grateful, agyu, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
2006
Cum Together, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Shoegazers & Graverobbers, Art 37 Statements, David Kordansky Gallery, Basel
HYENA, Jan Winkelmann/Berlin, Berlin
2005
Meat Eating Plants, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Penetration, Jan Winkelmann/Berlin, Berlin
2004
Exhausted Blood & Imitation Salt, John Connelly Presents, New York
2003
Tatum O’Neals Birthday Party, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
2000
Soft Rock, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Group Exhibitions
2010
Behind the Curtain, Gió Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Country Club, Cincinnati, USA
In Three Rounds, Round 3, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Matthew Brannon / Mathew Cerletty / David Diao / Daniel Sinsel , Office Baroque Gallery,
Antwerp, Belgium
OWL STRETCHING TIME, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
2009
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter, curated by AA Bronson, PS.1, New York, USA;
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Beg, Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Stuart Sherman: Nothing Up My Sleeve, curated by Jonathan Berger, Participant Inc., New York, USA
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printer Matter, curated by AA Bronson, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Embrace, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Five, Baibakova Art Projects, Moscow, Russia
No Shoes on the Carpet, Cirrus, Los Angeles, USA
Poor. Old. Tired. Horse., ICA, London, UK
Born in the morning, dead by night, curated by Toni Matelli, Leo Koenig, New York, USA
Code Share, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Matthew Brannon, Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, William E. Jones, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2008
Kunst im Hei, Captain Petzel, Berlin
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
50 Moons of Saturn, t2 Torino Trienniale, Foundation, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Turin
Fair Market, curated by Haley Mellin, Rental Gallery, New York
DISPATCH Portfolio Project #2, DISPATCH, New York
One Day I Woke Up Very Early, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp
Featuring, Galerie Chez Valentine, Paris
Tapestry, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery at Hudson Salon, Los Angeles
Acquisitions, Gifts, & Works from Various Exhibitions 1985-2008, curated by Bob Nickas, White Columns, New York
Uncertain States of America, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar B. Kvaran, & Hans Ulrich Obrist, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; Songzhuan Art Center, Beijing, China
2007
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, curated Deborah Wye, Museum of Modern Art New York, New York
On the Marriage Broker Joke, curated by Wim Peeters, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp
(the) Melvins @ (the) Mandrake, curated by Bob Nickas, The Mandrake, Los Angeles
Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millenium, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist & Gunnar Kvaran, Le MusŽe du Serignan, Serignan; Herning Art Museum, Copenhagen; The Centre for Contemporary Art, Zanek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
2006
Bring the War Home, QED Gallery, Los Angeles
Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millenium, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson; Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik; Serpentine Gallery, London
666, curated by Jan Tumlir, usc Roski School of Fine Arts
Social Design, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Exquisite Corpse, Mitchell Algus Gallery, curated by Bob Nickas, New York
Matthew Brannon, Wade Guyton, Patrick Hill, United Artists. Ltd., Marfa
Slow Burn, curated by Jonah Freeman, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva
2005
Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millenium, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Suspended Narration, Lora Reynolds Gallery Austin
Passion Beyond Reason, Wallstreet 1, Berlin, a Miller/Rockenschaub Project
Temporary Import, Art Forum Berlin, Special Exhibitions, Berlin
Threshold, Max Wigram, London
New Tapestries, Sara Meltzer, New York
We Could Have Invited Everyone, curated by Peter Coffin, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
The Most Splendid Apocalypse, curated by Jason Murison, ppow, New York
Post No Bills, curated by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York
There Is a City in My Mind, Southfirst, New York
Wordplay, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Good Titles from Bad Books, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
Lesser New York, A Fia Bäckström Production, New York
Greater New York, PS1/MoMA, New York
We love Amerika, Jan Winkelmann/Berlin, Berlin
On the Beach, curated by Justin Lowe, Printed Matter, New York
2004
Halloween Horror Films, Southfirst, New York
If Direction Is a Look, with Sarah Morris, Galería Javier López, Madrid
Besides, popularity is a rather lumpy concept, no?, curated by Raif Brog & Petra Rinck, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Summer Summary, curated by Roger White, temporary space, New York
Noctambule, D’Amelio Terras at The Fondation Dosne: Bibliotheque Thiers, Paris
Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity, curated by Bob Nickas & Steve Lafrenier, PS1/MoMA, New York
Tapestry from an Asteroid, Golinko Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Hohe Berge, Tiefes Tal, Autocenter, Berlin, curated by Markus Draper
Collection: How I Spent a Year, curated by Bob Nickas, PS1/MoMA, New York
Lumpen Decadents, curated by Gean Moreno, Ingalls & Associates, Miami
Cave Canem, John Connelly Presents, New York
If Direction Is a Look, with Sarah Morris, Galería Javier López, Madrid
2003
Kult 48 Klubhouse, curated by Scott Hug, Deitch Projects, New York
Snowblind, with Wade Guyton & Mungo Thomson, John Connelly Presents, New York
My people were fair & had cum in their hair (but now they’re content to spray the stars from your boughs), curated by Bob Nickas, Team Gallery, New York
Inaugural Exhibition, Golinko Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
I’m Afraid of Everything, Blonde Revolution, New York
Escape from New York, curated by Jason Murison, Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey
Corporate Profits vs. Labor Costs, D’Amelio Terras, New York
Parking Lot, Ten in One Gallery, New York
The Melvins, curated by Bob Nickas, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Late to Work Everyday, curated by Noah Sheldon, DuPreau Gallery, Chicago
Talking Pieces, Text & Image in Contemporary Art, curated by Ute Riese, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
2002
Triple Theatre, with Heidie Giannotti, Triple Candie, New York
Dark Spring, curated by Nicolaus & Liam Gillick, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal
Open City 16, Open City Magazine, New York
2001
Dedalic Convention, curated by Liam Gillick & Annette Kosak, MAK, Vienna
Out of Place, UKS Biennial,
Norway
Wall Labels & New School University, New York
2000
Luggage, curated by Matthew Brannon, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
@, curated by Jason Murison, PPOW Gallery, New York
Soft Rock, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
23rd New Museum Benefit Gala, curated by Stefano Basilico, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1999
Made Especially for You, curated by Jenelle Porter, Artists Space, New York
The Wight Biennial, curated by Mungo Thomson, The New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
MFA Thesis Exhibition, curated by Thelma Golden, Columbia University, New York
1998
1 + 3 = 4 x 1, collaboration with Liam Gillick, curated by Susanne Gaensheimer, Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst Liepzig
Oh My God I live on the thirteenth floor in Holland, which doesn’t exist in the
United States, or no?, collaboration with George Rush, curated by Jay Batlle, H. Cleyndertweg 13 space, Amsterdam
1996
Paint as Purpose, curated by Roger Ray & Jesse H. Rivard, Purple Gallery, Los Angeles
New Memory, curated by Slater Bradley, Spanish Kitchen Studios, Los Angeles
1995
The 1995 Banale, curated by Michelle Alpern, RE:Solution Gallery, Los Angeles
Bibliography
2010
Stern, Steven, Stuart Sherman, Frieze, March, p 139
2009
Heinrich, Cristoph and Jeff Wells, 'V2: Embrace!', Denver Art Museum
Pulimood, Steve, 'Prints and Predators', Sleek Magazine, Winter, pp. 188 – 195
Sumpter, Helen, 'Matthew Brannon', Time Out, October
Searle, Adrian, Matthew Brannon: Private View with Adrian Searle', Gaurdian. www.gaurdian.co.uk (podcast)
Dorment, Richard, 'A Drama of Our Own Making', The Daily Telegraph, 15th September
Rees, Simon, 'Best of Group Shows 2008: Not So Subtle Subtitle', Frieze, January, p 102
Sherman, Lauren. 'Print Isn’t Dead: The ancient craft of letterpress is making a comback', Forbes, June 8, p. 68
Conti, Samantha. 'Baibakova Makes Her Mark in the Art World', WWD
Birnbaum, Daniel, T2 Torino Triennale, '50 Moons of Saturn', Castello de Rivoli Museum of
Contemporary Art, Fondazione Sandretto Re, Rebaudengo, Fondazione Torino Musei, Torino,
2008-2009, p.210 - 215
Foumberg, Jason. 'Current Shows: Matthew Brannon, Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars,
William E. Jones', Frieze, June
Monk, Philip, 'Matthew Brannon', Flash Art, March/April, p.65
Delbecq, Marcelline, 'Worst Case Scenario, Matthew Brannon', Roven, nº2 / automne-hiver
2009-2010, pp. 100-105.
Cotter, Holland, 'A Tabletop Conjurer, Rediscovered', New York Times, 30th November
2008
Higgie, Jennifer, ‘The Embarassing Truth’, Frieze, Issue 119, Nov-Dec 2008
Nicolin, Poala, ‘Matthew e le storie a colori, Letizia e le vite immaginarie,’ GQ Italia, October, p. 409
Jones, Kristin M. ‘Not So Subtle Subtitle’, The New Yorker, July, p.12
Turvey, Lisa, ‘Matthew Brannon at Friedrich Petzel Gallery’, Artforum, September
Johnson, Ken ‘Some Shows for Escape, Some for Introspection’, The New York Times, 4th July, p. E30
Schwendener, Martha ‘Not So Subtle Subtitle’, The New Yorker, 21st July p. 12
Barliant, Claire ‘New York Summer Group Shows: Artist as Curator’, Artinfo, July, online
Castets, Simon ‘Subtle Selection’, VMagazine, 20th June, online
Droitcour, Brian, ‘Critics’ Pick, New York’, Artforum.com, 20th June
Rosenberg, Karen, ‘Matthew Brannon, The Question is a Compliment’ The New York Times, 13th June, p. 26
“Matthew Brannon, ‘The Question is a Compliment’” The New Yorker, 30th June, p. 13
Falconer, Morgan ‘Morgan Falconer on Matthew Brannon at Friedrich Petzel, New York’ Saatchi Gallery Online, June
Arlien-Soborg, Mads ‘Artists Must-haves’ Dansk edition 17, p. 46-7
‘Current Viewing: Matthew Brannon’, The Imagist, June 24, ill.
Monk, Phillip, ‘More Than You Know’, To Say The Very Least catalogue, Art Gallery of York University, p. 143-153
Turvey, Lisa ‘Matthew Brannon’ Whitney Biennial 2008 exhibition catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art, p. 108-9
Stern, Steven ‘Whitney Biennial’ Frieze, May, p. 164-5
Searle, Adrian ‘Nice Building-Shame About The Art’ The Guardian, March
Egan, Maura ‘Now Viewing: Matthew Brannon’ The New York Times T Magazine, May
Cotter, Holland ‘Art’s Economic Indicator’ New York Times, 7th March, online
Vogel, Carol ‘A Biennial Bustin’ Out of the Whitney’ New York Times, 29 February, p. 31-2
Brannon, Matthew, ‘Questionnaire’, Frieze, March, p. 200
2007
Chen, Howie, ‘Chapter 11’, Where Were We exhibition catalogue, The Whitney Museum of American Art, pp. 3-18, ill.
Bryant, Eric. ‘Paint It Bleak’, Art News, December, pp. 128-131, ill.
Wolff, Rachel. ‘Young Masters’, New York Magazine, October 15, p. 48, ill.
Brannon, Matthew, ‘Out-of-body Experience’, The New York Times Style Magazine, pp. 276-279, ill.
Brannon, Matthew, ‘Eel at Ease’, V Magazine, Fall Preview, p. 69, ill.
Brown, Nicholas, ‘The Language of Success: Anxiety and excess in Matthew
‘Brannon’s Try and be grateful’, Color Magazine, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 98-107 ill.
Kunitz, Daniel, ‘A Wicked Ventriloquist’, The New York Sun, June 14, p. 20 ill.
Schwendener, Martha, ‘Whitney Museum at Altria: Matthew Brannon, Where Were We’, The New York Times, May 18, p. 25
‘Matthew Brannon; Where Were We’, The New Yorker, May 14, p. 24
Ratner, Megan, ‘Tongue in Chic: The guilty pleasure of looking at Matthew Brannon’s slyly subversive posters’, Art on Paper, May - June, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 50 – 55, cover ill. and ill.
Listings Editor, ‘Matthew Brannon, Where Were We.’ Time Out New York, April 26 – May 2, p. 110, ill.
Listings Editor, ‘Matthew Brannon.’ Monopol, April, p. 124, ill.
Scott, Andrea K., ‘Matthew Brannon, Where Were We.’ Time Out New York, April 12 – 18, p. 86, ill.
Schwendener, Martha, ‘Material Muse for Some Strange Bedfellows.’ The New York Times, April 6, p. E34, ill.
Whitney at Altria to Present Matthew Brannon: Where Were We.’ ArtXWorld.com, March
Milroy, Sarah, ‘A Riot of Dark Fragments.’ Toronto Globe and Mail, March 1, ill.
Feldman, Jenny, ‘Beautiful Dreamers.’ Elle, March, p. 198, ill.
2006
Searle, Adrian, ‘Rebels without a cause’, guardian.co.uk, 12th September
Ellis, Patricia, ‘Matthew Brannon.’ USA Today: New American Art from The Saatchi Gallery exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, pp. 60 - 69, ill
Lawrence, Vanessa, ‘Graphic Art.’ Women’s Wear Daily, October 5, p. 4, ill.
Muhle, Maria, ‘Mood Swings.’ Texte Zur Kunst, September, pp. 194-96, ill.
Funcke, Bettina A.W., ed. Allen Ruppersberg, Seth Price, Matthew Brannon, Donald Judd, and Johanna Burton, Continuous Project #8, Chatou, France: CNEAI, Paris, pp. 56 – 57, ill.
Cotter, Holland, ‘At a Group Show in Chelsea, the Art is Sharp but the Categories Blurry.’ The New York Times, August 16
Ward, Ossian, ‘Matthew Brannon: impenetrable collectible.’ The Art Newspaper, Art Basel Daily Edition, June 14, p. 8
Cromwell, Wendy, ‘Buying into a Trend.’ Art on Paper, May/June, p. 22
Pavone, Rosa, ‘Never Innocent, Casual, or Involuntary: An Interview with Matthew Brannon.’ Uovo, April, pp. 138- 155, ill.
Blom, Ina, ‘The Young Americans.’ Texte Zur Kunst, March, pp. 169-173
Tumlir, Jan, ‘Openings: Jan Tumlir on Matthew Brannon.’ Artforum, February, pp. 196 – 197
North Drive Press, interview and multiple, Issue 3, New York
2005
Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millenium (exh. cat.), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, pp. 30 – 33, ill.
Mixburgh, General Store at SPACE, cassette, Pittsburgh, curated by Tyson Reeder.
2004
White, Roger, ‘In Conversation: Matthew Brannon with Roger White.’ The Brooklyn Rail, April
2003
Poster Project in 3 Locations, SITE Ausstellungsraum, Düsseldorf, Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt & Reg Vardy Gallery, London, curated by Ralf Brog & Petra Rinck
K48, Religion & Cult Issue, K48 Magazine, New York.
Charley Magazine, Ed. Maurizio Cattelan, Bettina Funcke, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick.
Artist’s writings
2009
'Matthew Brannon', Dazed and Confused, vol. 72, iss. 78. p. 208.
'Liam Gillick: Interview by Matthew Brannon', Interview, June/July, p 74-77.
'Thoughts in Simon Dybbroe Moeller’s about fashion and history, about waiting', Kunstverein
Hannover, catalogue essay, p 70-76.
'Like it or Not: Matthew Brannon on Lynn Spigels’s TV by Design', Artforum, February, p 57-58.
'I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette', Paper Monument, p. 53.
'Where Were We: Art Basel 2009', V Magazine, May
2008
‘Without Baggage, With Pistoletto: Thoughts on Eileen Quinlan’s photographs’, Mousse Magazine, p 31-33.
‘Questionnaire’, Frieze, March 2008, p. 200.
‘Family Guide by Matthew Brannon’, Whitney Biennial 2008, 10 page brochure
2007
Who is Guy de Cointet? Artforum, Summer, p. 414
Visits and Lectures
2010
University of Southern California, USA (forthcoming)
Cornell University, New York, USA (forthcoming)
2009
University of California, Irvine, USA
University of California, Riverside, USA
Yale School of Arts, New Haven, USA
New York University, New York, USA
School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
'Nostalgia: What’s the Role of the past in Fashioning the Future?', Frieze Talks, October 17
Public Commissions
2009
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
June Noble Larkin, Juliard, New York, USA
Publications, projects, editions
2010
Insert in Kaleidoscope, The Italian Issue, Issue 6, p. 98-103
2009
'Abstract America', The Saatchi Gallery, Rizzoli Publishers, New York
Matthew Brannon Card Set, ICA , London, UK
'Between the Lines', Volume II, children’s benefit coloring book pages, RxArt
'Misused Pronouns', ICA, London, UK, September, silkscreen ed. 150
Fondazione Sandretto Re, silkscreen ed. 200
'You Tell Me', Verdure, Numéro 2, Nice, insert
'Under the Mattress', Paper Monument, 4 page insert
VISIONAIRE, Issue 57
And you remember thinking…, t-shirt design for Whitney Museum by ADAM
2008
Frieze, November/December, cover
Frieze, October iss. 118, p. 216, insert
‘50 Moons of Saturn: T2 Torino Triennale’, catalogue graphic design with Alex Lesy
‘Hyena’, [soundtrack edition], DISPATCH, July 13, performance
‘Not So Subtle Subtitle’, ed. Matthew Brannon, Casey Kaplan Gallery, book
‘To Say the Very Least’, Art Gallery of York University, catalogue
‘Where Were We’, DISPATCH, June, silkscreen ed. 17
Cirrus Editions, Jean Millant publisher silkscreen ed. 50
‘An Overflowing Cup’, poem, 2008 Whitney Biennial Catalog, p. 273, insert
2007
‘Hyena’, numbered edition of 100, book
‘Use Value’, Heather Rowe: Shards, D’amelio Terras, p. 54-55, ill., insert
‘Artist Projects: CMYK’, curated by Walead Beshty, Cabinet, Issue 27, Fall 2007, pp. 36-37 ill., insert
‘Out-of-Body Experience’ The New York Times Style Magazine, August 26, 2007, pp. 276-279, ill., insert
‘Poem for Guy de Cointet’, Artforum, p. 414, insert
2006
‘Performance Anxiety’ Printed Matter, silkscreen ed. 200
‘Teachers Fuck Students’ Texte zur Kunst, junge edition nr. 63, silkscreen ed. 60
North Drive Press, multiple, Issue 3, New York, NY.
LAB Magazine, Issue 1, ed. Adam Pendleton, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, insert
K48 Magazine, K48 6, New York, NY. p. 82-8, insert
2005
Parkett, Issue 73, New York/Zurich, insert
SITE, Issue 8, Düsseldorf, insert
On the Beach, curated by Justin Lowe. Printed Matter, New York
2003
Poster Project in 3 Locations, curated by Ralf Brog & Petra Rinck, SITE
Ausstellungsraum, Düsseldorf, Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt & Reg Vardy Gallery, London
K48 Magazine, K48 4, New York, NY. p. 72-73, insert
Charley Magazine, Ed. Cattelan, Funcke, Gioni and Subotnick p. 94, insert
2002
SITE Magazin, Issue 8, Düsseldorf, Germany p. 26-29, insert
SITE Magazin, Issue 6, Düsseldorf, Germany p. 80-83, insert
Open City, ed. Mungo Thomson, Issue 16, New York, p. 119, insert
2001
The UKS Biennial, book jacket, collaboration with Heidie Giannotti, Norway
As Curator
2008
Not So Subtle Subtitle, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
2005
Good Titles from Bad Books, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
2000
Luggage, Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin
1999
Fuck Yourself, Miller Theater Lobby, Columbia University, New York
1998
exhibition|EXHIBITION 1998, Miller Theater Lobby, Columbia University, New York
This Description, Miller Theater Lobby, Columbia University, New York
1997
Thug Life, or How I Learned to Draw, Watson Gallery, Columbia University, New York Summer 2007, p. 414.