Matthew Metzger
Chicago, IL
Born 1978
EDUCATION
2009
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Artist Residency)
2009
University of Chicago, Department of Visual Art, Master of Fine Arts
2004
University of North Texas, Bachelor of Fine Arts
SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021
Heirloom, Renaissance Society, Chicago
2019
Collapse, Regards, Chicago
2016
On Holiday, Regards, Chicago
2015
Megan Greene / Matthew Metzger, EXPO CHICAGO, Regards booth
An/other version of Be-longing, Regards, Chicago
That Which Can’t Be Played, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
2013
The Other, Arratia Beer, Berlin
Matthew Metzger & Jennie C. Jones, Focus, Frieze Art Fair, New York
Waver, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago
2012
Be-Longing, Statements: Art |43| Basel with Arratia Beer, Switzerland
Backdrop, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago
2011
Locus, Sikkema & Jenkins Co., New York
Double Back, Arratia Beer, Berlin
Nocturne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Three Specific Works, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago
2010
The Interrogative Remainder, DOVA Temp Gallery, Chicago
2009
No Sudden Moves, DOVA Temp Gallery, Chicago
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Without Stopping, Ratio 3, San Francisco
2019
Polarities, TOTAH, New York City
Nonchalant: Abstraction by 10 Chicago Artists, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago Nothing is Ours But Time, The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago
2017
Infinite Games 50/50, Open House Contemporary, Chicago
2016
Retrograde (forthcoming), Logan Center Exhibitions, Chicago
The Freedom Principle, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Come As Your Are, Arratia Beer, Berlin
Chicago and Vacinity, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
2015
Touched For The Very First Time, LMP Gallery, Denver
Theory of Forms, Patron, Chicago
The Freedom Principle, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Works, Contemporary Art Center, Brussels
2013
A Study in Midwest Appropriation, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Mercury Theatre, The Bindery Projects, Minneapolis
Beyond The Object, Brand New Gallery, Milan
2011
Color: Fully Engaged, A&D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago
Mirages, Fountains & Dissociative Composition, Catherine Bastide Gallery, Brussels
The Erasers, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis
2010
Ground Floor, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Angels, Kunz,Vis,Gonzales, Chicago
Stay In Your Lane, Swimming Pool Projects, Chicago
2009
Group Show for Daniel Pink, Vega Estates, Chicago
Our Literal Speed, Gallery 400, Chicago
Graduate Art Survey, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis
2008
Make Me an Offer, Gallery 350, Chicago
On Paper, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
COMMISIONS
2011
Ghost, “Threshold” Series of new works commissioned by The SMART Museum of Art, Chicago, on view from October 2011- September 2012
PUBLICATIONS and REVIEWS
2022
forthcoming exhibition catalog, Matthew Metzger: Heirloom at The Renaissance Society (2021). Contributions from Karsten Lund, Fumi Okiji, Kris Cohen, Anna Zett, McKenzie Wark, Jan Verwoert, and Matthew Metzger
2021
Relyea, Lane. Matthew Metzger: Renaissance Society. Artforum, November 2021.
2019
Archias, Elise and Matthew Ghoulish, Matthew Metzger, and David Schutter, Collapse, artists book by Matthew Metzger
2018
Cozzolino, Robert and Maggie Taft, “A Conversation Between Matthew Metzger and Richard Rezac.” Into the City: A History of Chicago Art. The University of Chicago Press.
2017
Benschop, Jurriaan. “Matthew Metzger.” Review of The Shade of a Line, by Matthew Metzger. Arratia Beer, Berlin. Artform, February 2017.
2016
Metzger, Matthew. “Improvisation.” In Shifter 22: Dictionary of the Possible. Shifter. Edited by Alpert, Avi and Sreshta Rit Premnath, 90-93. China: Four Colour Print Group.Umolu, Yesomi. Retrogarde. Chicago, IL: Logan Center Exhibitions, November 2016- January 2017.
2015
“A Conversation with Matthew Metzger”, interview with Gwendolyn Zabicki, Figure/Ground
Nelson, Solveig, “The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now”, Artforum
Benschop, Jurriaan, “A Stroll Through Chicago”, DAMN Magazine
Benschop, Jurriaan, “Fourth Expo Chicago”, H Art Magazine
“A brief and provisional rumination on a Black Form”, by Matthew Metzger, Open Set
Ten: Karsten Lund Interviews Matthew Metzger, Regards, Chicago
Ten: Matthew Metzger Interviews Megan Greene, Regards, Chicago
2013
Other Spaces: SHIFTER 21 – Edited by Matthew Metzger & Sreshta Rit Premnath,
Visiting Artist: Matthew Metzger on Paul Sietsema at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, New City Issue October 30 – Nov. 5
What We Can Knot: SHIFTER 20- Edited by Matthew Metzger & Sreshta Rit Premnath,
2012
Proposals: SHIFTER 19- Edited by Matthew Metzger & Sreshta Rit Premnath,
Intention: SHIFTER 18- Edited by Matthew Metzger & Sreshta Rit Premnath
Langbeim, Julia, May Critics Pick, Artforum online
Dluzen, Robin, “MATTHEW METZGER’S ‘BACKDROP’ AT TONY WIGHT GALLERY”, New American Painting online
Judd, Jason, “Other Investigations: Matthew Metzger”, Make-Space.net
2011
Color: Fully Engaged Catalogue, Columbia College Chicago Press, A & D Gallery, September, pgs. 34-35
Cahill, Zachary, January Critics Pick, Artforum online
Modern Painters, Artist Profile, May, pgs. 40-41
Westin, Monica, “Painter Matthew Metzger Takes on Reality at MCA with ‘Nocturne’”, Chicago Magazine, May issue, Artist Profile, pgs. 17-18
“Matthew Metzger at MCA”, CY Magazine Online, Interview
Re____ing: SHIFTER 17- Edited by Matthew Metzger & Sreshta Rit Premnath, and re-printed in Vol. 23 Number 2 of Rethinking Marxism, Routledge Press, April
2010
“Educating Intuition”, written by Matthew Metzger & Maggie Taft, published in Internal Necessity: a reader tracing the inner logics of the contemporary art field, edited by Jacqueline Burckhardt & Tirdad Zolghadr, Sternberg Press, pgs. 150-154
Furnari, Rachel, “Eye Exam: Matthew Metzger in Detail” Newcity, April issue
“The Gap-” Exhibition essay written by Matthew Metzger for “Abnormal Formal” at Kunz,Vis,Gonzalez, Chicago