Matt Connors

Born:
1973
Residence:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Nationality:
American
Trust:
APT New York
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PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

  • Three generations of artists converge within the frame of Jonathan Monk’s studio, with an exhibition aptly titled "Perfectly Concocted Context" at Che

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  • Exhibitions

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  • André Viana Gallery is currently participating at the SP Arte 2017 in São Paulo through April 9, 2017.

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  • On March 2, 2017, as part of its Contemporary Curated sale in New York, during Armory Week, Sotheby’s will be offering the very first public sale of works from the Artist Pension Trust® (APT) Collection. APT was founded in 2004 as a mutual assurance program providing long-term financial security for its member artists who deposit artworks with the trust over a 20-year period, and share the net proceeds from the sales. With 13,000 works, by 2,000 member artists, it is the largest private collection of global contemporary art in the world.

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  • Forthcoming auction designed to paint a happier retirement for modern artists

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  • Phillips announced highlights from the upcoming auction of New Now, providing an exciting start to our fall sale season.

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  • Interview with Eric Crosby who is to curate a group show, tellingly entitled “Painter Painter” and featuring new works by 15 artists, that will be open at Walker Art Center next February.

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  • Interview with Eric Crosby who is to curate a group show, tellingly entitled “Painter Painter” and featuring new works by 15 artists, that will be open at Walker Art Center next February.

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  • Quiet, meditative, engrossing: those are ways you could describe the work of painters Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily, both of whom take their first

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  • For the 88th year, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named the winners of its annual fellowships. Twenty people were honored this year

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  • The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States in collaboration with the Institut Francais, with the support of the Alliance Française of Los Angeles and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, are pleased to announce Ceci n’est pas…Art Between France and Los Angeles.

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  • Curator Jeffrey Grove selected Fergus Feehily and Matt Connors for Concentrations 54 (both enjoy their first museum exhibition here at the DMA)

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  • MoMA PS1 presents the first solo museum exhibition of Matt Connors (American, b. 1973), comprising twenty-three paintings from 2008 to the present

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  • Striped bathroom wallpaper, Cy Twombly, Imi Knoebel, and scribbles resembling Pop-like lineaments or cave markings are all evoked by Matt Connors work

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BIOGRAPHY

Matt Connors (b. 1973) received a BFA from Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, in 1995 and an MFA from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 2006.

Matt Connors is a painter with a profound interest in technique and colour. His work draws upon the history of painting and processes, particularly minimalism and abstraction, but is also influenced by design, poetry, writing and music. While his visual vocabulary is often borrowed from the modernist canon – colours, gestures, grids, framing devices and compositions – Connors’ approach to his work is resolutely contemporary in both method and conception. In terms of materials and colouration, his work triggers emotional and intuitive responses. At the same time, it opens up a range of intellectual questions concerning mimesis, iteration and simulacra. Connors often works in series of interlinked, yet wholly autonomous works, in which a lively dialogue is established between repetition and variations in colours and form. Although his paintings might appear to depict something ‘real’ – a familiar work of art for example – there is, in fact, no ‘original’. Taken to the logical conclusion, Connors’ paintings could be viewed as having superseded the reality upon which they are based. Matt Connors is also known for his large-scale installations and artist books.

Matt Connors (b. 1973, Chicago) lives and works in New York . Recent group exhibitions include: New York Painting, Kunstmuseum Bonn (2015); The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, MoMA, New York (2014) and Painter, Painter at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2013). Solo exhibitions include: Impressionism, MoMA PS1, New York (2012), Gas... Telephone... One Hundred Thousand Rubles, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (2011). In 2015, Matt Connors was a resident at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas. In 2012, he published the award-winning book A Bell is a Cup.

Matt Connors is represented by CANADA in New York and Xavier Hufkens in Belgium

 


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