Matthew Ritchie  (British, 1964) 

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Matthew Ritchie Biography
1964   Born in UK. Lives and works in New York City
1983 - 1986   BFA, Camberwell School of Art, London
1992   Boston University, Boston, MA
Selected Exhibitions
2012   Barbican Theatre, London, “The Long Count,”
2011   Performa Biennial, New York, NY, “The Likeness of a Crown,”
2011   L&M Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2011   Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria, “The Morning Line,”
2011   Holland Festival, Amsterdam, “The Long Count,”
2011   Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan, “Architectural Environments for Tomorrow
2011   Graham Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, “Seeing/Knowing,”
2011   Albright-Knox, Buffalo, New York, “Surveyor,”
2011   Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Boston, MA
2010   The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, “I am the Cosmos,”
2010   The National Arts Club, New York, NY, “Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project,”
2010   Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, “Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Musuem
2010   Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey, “The Morning Line,”
2009   bitforms, New York, NY, “Spazialismo,”
2009   Institute of Contemporary Art, Valencia, Spain, "Confines", curated by, Aaron Betsky
2009   Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA, "Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art
2009   Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, “Line Shot,” (solo)
2009   c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany, "The Need Fire" (solo)
2009   London, England, "The Last Scattering, Phase 2", Matthew Ritchie with Arup AGU (solo)
2009   Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany, “To the Milky Way by Bicycle,”
2009   San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, “Between Art and Life,”
2009   Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "The Kaleidoscopic Eye"
2008   Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Wunderkammern", curated by Sarah Suzuki
2008   Jewish Museum in San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, "In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis"
2008   Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland, "Experiment Marathon Reykjavík", organized by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Ólafur Elíasson
2008   Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, "The Morning Line", Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\ Lasch and Arup AGU (solo)
2008   Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, The Guggenheim Collection
2008   White Cube, London, England, “Ghost Operator “, May 20 - June 28 (forthcoming) (solo)
2007   St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, New Media Series: Matthew Ritchie, The Iron City June 29 – September 30 (solo)
2007   Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA, Paintings Edge, June 23 – July 5
2007   P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, “Not For Sale”, February 11 – April 30
2007   James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, “Cosmologies”, January 11 – February 12
2006   Denver Art Museum, RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, October 7 – July 15, 2007
2006   Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Out of Line: Drawings from the Collection of Sherry and Joel Mallin, November 4 – December 17
2006   T-B A21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, “Nature Attitudes”, April 5 – June 17, 2006.
2006   Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany, “The Guggenheim Collection”, July 21, 2006 – January 7, 2007 (catalogue)
2006   Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, September (solo)
2005   The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadephia, PA (solo)
Portikus, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (solo)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, “Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing,” curated by Elisabeth Sussman, (catalogue)
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, “Return to Space,” curated by Christoph Heinrich and Markus Heinzelmann
2005   Richard L. Feigen & Co, New York, The Third Eye: Fantasies, Dreams and Visions, November 1 – January 28, 2006
2005   Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, In Private Hands: 200 Years of American Painting, October 1 – January 8, 2006
2005   Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, Return to Space, curated by Christoph Heinrich and Markus Heinzelmann, September 23 – February 12, 2006
2005   Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, curated by Elisabeth Sussman, June 2 – October 9
2005   Denver Museum of Art, Denver, Radar: Selections from the Kent and Vicki Logan Collection,”
2005   Portikus, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, July 9 – August 21 (solo)
2004   Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA, The Two-Way Shot, December 3 – 31 (solo)
2004   21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, The Encounters in the 21st Century: the 21st Century: Polyphony - Emerging Resonances. October 9– March 21, 2005
2004   Sao Paolo Biennial XXVI, Sao Paolo, Brazil, curated by Alfons Hug, September 25 – December 19
2004   DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, Monument to Now, the Dakis Joannou Collection curated by Dan Cameron, Jeffrey Deitch, Alison M. Gingeras, Massimiliano Gioni, and Nancy Spector, June 22 – December 31
2004   Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, “Matthew Ritchie: Proposition Player,” (solo)
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA, “The Two-Way Shot,” (solo)
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, “Fabulism”, curated by Klaus Kertess
Stiftung Opelvillen, Zentrum für Kunst, Russelheim, Germany, “Was Malerei Ist Heute”, curated by Beate Kemfert
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, “Monument to Now,” the Dakis Joannou Collection curated by Dan Cameron, Jeffrey Deitch, Alison M. Gingeras, Massimiliano Gioni, and Nancy Spector
Sao Paolo Biennial XXVI, Sao Paolo, Brazil, curated by Alfons Hug
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, “The Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony - Emerging Resonances."
2003   c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany, “After the Father Costume” (solo)
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, “Matthew Ritchie: Proposition Player” (solo)
c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Oldenberg, Germany, “160 Meisterzeichnungen”
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, “GNS”,
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, “Painting Pictures”, (catalogue)
Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany, “Hands Up, Baby, Hands Up! 160 Jahre Oldenburger Kunstverein, 160 Arbeiten auf Papier”, (catalogue)
Art Gallery of South Australia, John Kaldor Art Projects and Collection, Adelaide, Australia,“Journey to Now”
2002   Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (solo)
Reverberator, Houldsworth, London
(The World May Be) Fantastic, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (catalogue)
Flights of Reality, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge and Turnpike Gallery, Manchester (catalogue)
Sprawl, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, curated by Sue Spaid
Urgent Painting, LARC/Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris
Virginie Barré + Christophe Berdaguer & Marie Péjus + Alain Declercq + Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset + Naomi Fisher + Gelatin + Subodh Gupta + Alexander Györfi + Kay Hassan + Gunilla Klingberg + Surasi Kusolwong + Michel Majerus + Paola Pivi + Matthew Ritchie + Franck Scurti + Wang-Du +Sislej Xhafa + Jun'ya Yamaide, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2001   Concentrations 38: Matthew Ritchie, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas(solo)
The Family Farm, White Cube/Jay Jopling, London(solo)
Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy, curated by Jeffrey Deitch
2000   Parents and Children, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York(solo)
The Fast Set, Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (catalogue) (solo)
1999   The Big Story, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio (catalogue(solo)
1998   Fundação Cultural de Distrito Federal, Brasília, Brazil (solo)
Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil(solo)
Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paolo, Brazil, (catalogue)(solo)
The Gamblers, Basilico Fine Arts, New York(solo)
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston(solo)
Literature
2003   Matthew Ritchie: Proposition Player. Published by the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and Hatje Cantz, 2003.
2001   Matthew Ritchie. Incomplete Projects 02. Published by Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001
1999   Matthew Ritchie. The Big Story. Published by Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio, 1999
1998   Matthew Ritchie. Projects. Published by Basilico Fine Arts, NY, 1998
1996   Matthew Ritchie. The Hard Way. Published by Galerie Meteo, Basilico Fine Arts, c/o- Atle Gerhardsen, 1996