Matthew Rich
b. 1976



Born in Boston, MA / Resides in Jamaica Plain, MA
EDUCATION
2004
MFA, Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1998
BA, Visual Arts (Honors), BA, History of Art and Architecture Brown University, Providence, RI
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2009
Finalist, Sculpture/Installation Category, Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, Boston, MA
Meserve Mural Competition, Northeastern Creates, Northeastern University, Boston,            MA, A 6-month public installation of 32‘ x 42‘ site-specific work.
Summer Residency, Nes Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2007
Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.
2004
Office of Mulitcultural Affairs, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Finalist for Peer Encouragement Award.
2003
Summer Residency/Fellowship, Terra Foundation for the Arts, Giverny, France
1997
Research Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
IRE & ICE, samsøn, Boston, MA
Blind Spot, devening projects + editions, Chicago, IL
2008
Flatmosphere, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
2006
Painted Sculptures, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Riches, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA  (two-person)
2009
Strange Loops, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Drawings that Work, 21st Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Samson Projects, Volta 5, Basel, Switzerland
Samson Projects, MACO - México Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Mundane Shift Shape Placement, Park Life, San Francisco, CA
One Loses One’s Classics, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
Censor Approved, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Meserve Mural Competition, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Black, White, Color, Shape, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA
The Lobby, Watertown, MA
2008
Fabrications, O.H+T Gallery, Boston, MA
O.H+T Gallery, Aqua Hotel, Aqua Art Fair Miami, Miami, FL
Pattern, Hallway Bathroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A Cleaner Heart A Do It, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Anything But Paper Prayers, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
This is Boston Not LA, LaMontagne Gallery, South Boston, MA
Paper Constructions, Digitas, Boston, MA
Boston Does Boston, Proof Gallery, South Boston, MA
2007
Sum, Julian Scott Gallery, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT
Selected Works, Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, Boston, MA
Faculty Exhibition, Northeastern University, Ryder Hall, Boston, MA
2006
Suburban: Normal, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Moreover: Practicing Representation+Abstraction, The Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL (curated by Michelle Grabner)
New Faculty Exhibition, Northeastern University, Ryder Hall,  Boston, MA
2005
Young Mountain, The Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH (catalogue)
UT Tyler Faculty Show, Meadows Gallery, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX
2004
An Accumulation of Convention:En Masse, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Infra-thin, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL (catalogue)
Casablanca, ThreeWalls, Chicago, IL
Recent Work, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
Swerve/Break, The Pond Project, Chicago, IL
Sports, Robert Morris College Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003
The Stage@The Stray Show, Chicago, IL (a collaboration with LA-based artist Shana Lutker)
Catching Up With the Sun Part II, Klein Art Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalogue)
Terra Summer Residency Show, Museum of American Art, Giverny, France
Anti-Spacesuit/The Dirty Future, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
Sulcata Solves, The Track House, Oak Park, IL
ArtHotel2003, Embassy Suites Hotel, Room 402, Chicago, IL
2002
Friends and Family, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
Chronoplastics, HEREArts, New York, NY
One Night Stand, 1926 Gallery, Chicago, IL
Dia de los Muertos, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (annual)
The 17th Annual Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, BCA, Boston, MA (juror - Bill Arning, catalogue)
2001
Addition/Subtraction, The Carlin Group, New York, NY
Frames of Reference, South End Gallery, Boston, MA
2000
Pulse, Gallery of Modern Art, Marblehead, MA (curated by Barbara O’Brien)
Repetition and Multiples, Gallery fx, Boston, MA
Drawing Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1998
Honors Thesis Exhibition, List Art Center, Brown University
Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Brown University, Providence, RI
1996
Hieroglyphics, Castiganetti Compound, Boston, MA
VISING ARTIST/LECTURES
2009
Milton Academy, Milton, MA
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2010
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art & Music, Simmons College, Boston, MA
2006 - Present
Full-Time Lecturer, Department of Art + Design, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
2004 - 06
Full-Time Lecturer/Gallery Director, Department of Art, The University of Texas at Tyler, TX
PUBLICATIONS
2009
Catalogue Essay, Joseph Hart: Stagecraft, David Krut Projects, New York, NY
Featured Artist/Essay, Slush Pile, Issue 4 (http://slushpilemag.com/?cat=14)
2008
Featured Artist/Interview, Freight and Volume Magazine, Issue 2, Winter 07/08, Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Publisher/Catalogue Essay, Slow Down, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX
2004
Featured Artist, Infra-thin, a multi-media book project funded by a grant from the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2001
Catalogue Essay, Sebastian Blanck: Bathroom Weather, Galleria In Arco, Turin, Italy
2000
Featured Artist, Double Aught: Book of Arts, Literature and Sound, Chronoplastics, Providence, Ri
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009
Cate McQuaid. Opposites, Successfully Married, Boston Globe, November 11
James Yood. Matthew Rich at devening projects + editions, Artforum, Summer 2009
Jason Kornwitz. Graphic & Novel, The Northeasertern Voice, May 15
Jess Wheaton. Boston: Matthew Rich at Samson Projects, Little Paper Planes, November 8
Greg Cook. Weather Reports, The Boston Phoenix, October 9
Mundane Shift Shape Placement, Park Life, San Francisco, Minus Space, May 29
Claudine Ise. Matthew Rich at devening projects+editions, bad at sports, March 23
Matthew Rich, copperseal, March 17
Matthew Rich, we are dreamers, March 12
Matthew Rich, Little Paper Planes, March 12
Why don’t they get out of the way?, but does it float, March
Matthew Rich, dear ada, February 27
Blind Spot, ArtSlant, February 23
I Love Matthew Rich, art seen chicago, February 15
David Bonetti. LOST CLASSICS – Going, going, gone, STLtoday.com, February 12
Cut Paper Artwork by Matthew Rich, BOOOOOOOM, February 2
Ivy Cooper. Review: Variety Succeeds at White Flag, Saint Louis Beacon, January 28
2008
Boston’s SOWA Galleries, Shawn Hill, berkshirefineart.com, November 11
Julie Brenner. Matthew Rich in Chicago, artinfo.com, August 21
Edith Newhall. Calm and Thoughtful, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 11
Pageant and Fleisher-Ollman. Slice, dice and fold--Art Alliance, fallon and rosof’s artblog, July 21
Randi Hopkins. We’ll Fry Anything, The Boston Phoenix, Boston, MA January 2
2005
Craig Stockwell. Regional Review, Art New England, October/November
2004
Cate McQuaid. An Accumulation of Convention: En Masse. The Boston Globe, July 16 Student Showcase, fNews, Chicago, IL January
2003
Art people à Giverny, Le Démocrate Vernonnais, Vernon, France, July 16
Expo de huit semaines de recherches, Le Démocrate Vernonnais, Vernon, France, July 30

 
     
 
   
 
 
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