BIOGRAPHY

Occasionally it’s necessary to take a hard look in the mirror and reckon with the crisp, odd reflection. This can be funny, startling, utterly bizarre, or if we’re lucky, all three. In his uncanny sculptures and paintings, Tony Matelli routinely traffics in all three.

BORN

1971, Chicago, IL

LIVES AND WORKS

New York, NY


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AWARDS & EDUCATION

Education

1998 New York Foundation of the Arts Grant

1995 M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan

1993 B.F.A., Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Wisconsin

1991 Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art-Independent Study, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

HYPERSENSIBLE, Musee d’Arts de Nantes, Nantes, FR (forthcoming) Pleasure

Principle, François Ghebaly, New York, NY, US

2022

Sausage Party, Rodolphe Janssen, Belgium

Among Friends: Three Views of a Collection, Flag Art Foundation, NY

2021

Under a Loggia, Winter Street/Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City, Mexico Unnatural History, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, UK

The Long View: From Conservation to Sustainability: Works from the Bank of America Collection, Haggin Museum, CA

2020

Still Human, Colección SOLO, Madrid, NGV Triennial, National Gallery Victoria, Australia

Reflections, Matt Black x Gana Art, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea,

2019

Main Project of the 8th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated DmitriTcherniakov, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Moves, The Power Station, Dallas, TX Reshaped Reality. 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture, National Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, La Boverie, Liege, Belgium

Landscapes After Ruskin: Redefining The Sublime, curated by Joel Sternfeld, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY

2018

People: Figurative Sculpture, Jeffrey Deitch Projects, New York, NY

Objects Like Us, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT

The Transported Man, MSU Broad, East Lansing, MI

2017

Like Home, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Wanderlust, The High Line, New York, NY

2016

Ground Control, Art Basel Miami, Miami Beach FL

Beach Public, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL

Realisms, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Reshaping Reality. 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture, Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, A.C., Mexico

2015

Director’s Choice 7-9-13, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

2013

SOMETHING ABOUT A TREE, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY

Personal Structures, 54th International Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2011

Realismus: Das Abenteurer der Wirklichdeit, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany

2010

N’importe Quoi, Musée d’art Contemporain de Lyon, France, 2010

Ferne Nähe, KunstMuseum, Bonn, Germany

2009

Chasing Napoleon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Attention to Detail, curated by Chuck Close, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY

2008

Undone, Whitney Museum at Altria, New York, NY

2007

Baroque Biology (with Alexis Rockman), CAC in Cincinnati, OH

Five Billion Years, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2006

Into Me, Out of Me, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, PS1 / MOMA, Long Island City, NY

Fairy Tales Forever, Homage to H.C. Andersen, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

2005

What is Art Good For? 100 x Kunst am Karlsplatz, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria,2004

The Uncanny, Tate Liverpool, curated by Mike Kelley, Liverpool, UK

The Fourth Sex, curated by Francesco Bonami, MOCA, Chicago, IL

2003

Instructions, Kunsthalle Wien, curated by Gerald Matt, Vienna, Austria

PLOP - Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund, curated by Tom Eccles, New York, NY

Liquid Sky-Liquid Concrete, curated by Marc Olivier Wahler, Dijon, France

The Americans, Barbican Center, London, UK

2001

Greater New York, PS1/MOMA, Long Island City, NY

2000

Small World, MOCA, San Diego, CA

Over the Edges: the Corners of Gent, curated by Jan Hoet, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium

Beyond the Monument, organized by the the Public Art Fund, Metrotech, Brooklyn, NY Yesterday Begins Tomorrow, curated by Franceso Bonami, Bard College for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

1998

Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum, CT

Spatiotemporal-Works from the Collection 1988-1998, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthalle, Sweden

To be Real, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

Timelines, Maruani Mercier Gallery, Belgium

2022

Arrangements, Nino Mier Gallery, LA

2021

The Armory, Maruani Mercier Gallery, NY

2020

Abandon, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France
Tony Matelli, Alone Gallery, East Hampton, NY

2019

Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden

2018

Hera, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT

I hope all is well…, 500 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA

2017

Tony Matelli: New Gravity, The Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Boston, MA

2014

Tony Matelli-A Human Echo, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway

2013

Tony Matelli: A Human Echo, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

2012

Tony Matelli: Glass of Water, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2011

Tony Matelli, Selestat Bienniale, Selestat, France

Abandon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2009

Tony Matelli, Uppsala Kunstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden

2008

Abandon, Centre d’Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain

2005

Abandon, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

2004

Fucked and The Oracle, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria,

Abandon, University of Buffalo Art Gallery, New York, NY


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Netherlands

ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark

Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway

Bonnier Collection, Stockholm, Sweden

Bank of America Collection CCA, New York

Andratx, Mallorca, Spain

CURIOUSLY STRONG Altoids Collection, (New Museum) New York, NY

ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark

The Cultural Foundation Ekaterina, Moscow, Russia

Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook, MI

FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY

Fundacion La Caixa Madrid, Spain

FRAC Bordeaux, France Magasin 3 Stockholm

Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

McEvoy Foundation of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Musee d’arte Contemporain Montreal, Canada

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand

Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands

Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK

State National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

Skive New Art Museum SNYK, Copenhagen, Denmark

Sundsvalls Kommun, Sundsvall, Sweden

Uppsala Museum, Uppsala, Sweden


INTERNATIONAL BIENNIALS

Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, NY

Personal Structures, 54th International Venice Biennale, Venice Italy

Greater New York, PS1/MOMA, Long Island City, NY