BIOGRAPHY

Born 1975, Tacoma, WA (USA)

Lives and works in Berlin

EDUCATION

Yale University School of Art, New Haven, (M.F.A. Painting/Printmaking, 2002)

Harvard College, Cambridge, (B.A. Summa Cum Laude in Visual and Environmental Studies, 1997)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago

2009 Binsey Poplars, Harris Lieberman, NY

2008 Censor's Cuts, Andreas Grimm Gallery, Munich Statements, Art Basel2008 (with Harris Lieberman gallery)

2007 Hertha, second book, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva 

Prison Scene, Martin Asbaek Projects, Copenhagen

House Arrest, Homie, Berlin

2006 Harris Lieberman, New York

Grimm|Rosenfeld, Munich

Galerie Almine Rech, Paris

2004 Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva

Co-Stars, Grimm|Rosenfeld, Munich

2003 Slept, Lombard Freid, New York

2 Video Works, Sert Gallery, Harvard Univ Art Museums

2001 Screen Test, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva

1999 In Vitro, Geneva, curated by Ada Polla

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2009 Untitled (History Painting), U.Michigan Museum of Art,

Portrait 1, Die Fuge, Berlin

Unaddressed Circumventions: Folds from a Failed Suicide, Gresham's Ghost, NY

1999, China Art Objects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

A Twilight Art, Harris Lieberman, New York

2008 Freeway Balconies, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, curated by Collier Schorr

Passageworks: Contemporary Art from the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Politics, Maisterravalbuena, Madrid

2007 Sweet Bird of Youth, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, curated by Hedi Slimane

Blind Date Istanbul, Sabanci Museum, Istanbul

Tiere II, Kuhstall Moosalpe, Thalkirchdorf/Allgäu

2006 All the Best: The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, Singapore Art Museum

Zurück zu Figur:.Malerei der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle der Hypo- Kulturstiftung, Munich

All American, Wilmer Hale, Berlin

Liquid Paper - Pure Land, Ratio 3, San Francisco

2005 Log Cabin, Artists Space, New York, curated by Jeffrey Uslip

Founders Day, Grimm|Rosenfeld, New York

The Parable Show, Grimm|Rosenfeld, Munich

Hallucinations, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris

2004 Hotel Hollywood, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, curated by Swetlana Heger

She's Come Undone, Artemis Greenberg VanDoren Gallery, NY

Mind Over Manner, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich

Works on Paper, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY

2003 Lazarus Effect, Prague Biennial 1, Veletrzni Palac, Prague, curated by Lauri Firstenberg

Fair Play, Play Gallery for Still and Motion Pictures, Berlin

Game Over, Grimm|Rosenfeld, Munich

2002 Immediate Gesture, Lombard Freid, New York

On Paper, Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich

Enough About Me, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York curated by Deborah Kass

2001 B-Hotel, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York

Wight Biennial Twothousandandone, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles

BIBLIOGRAPHY

-Stillman, Nick, "Matt Saunders, Harris Lieberman Gallery," Artforum, Summer 2009.

-Antonini, Marco, review of "Unaddressed Circumventions," whitehotmagazine.com, July 2009. 

-Marshall, Piper, "Critic's Picks: Matt Saunders, Harris Lieberman," Artforum.com, March-April 2009.

-Latimer, Quinn, "Matt Saunders, Andreas Grimm, Munich," frieze.com.

-Drucks, Achim.  "Interview: Matt Saunders." db artmag, Issue 49.

-Freeway Balconies, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin (catalog)

-Turvey, Lisa. "Openings: Matt Saunders". Artforum, February 2007.

-Blind Date Istanbul (catalog)

-Zurück zu Figur:.Malerei der Gegenwart (catalog).

-All the Best: The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid (catalog).

-Smith, Roberta. "Art in Review: Matt Saunders." The New York Times, February 24, 2006.

-Stillman, Nick. "Critics' Picks: Matt Saunders." Artforum.com, February 2006.

-Blightman, Charlie. "The Ultimate Fan Club." ArtReview, February 2006.

-Schwendener, Martha. "Matt Saunders." Contemporary Magazine #83: Special Issue on Drawing,2006.

-Posnic, Emmanuel. "Matt Saunders - Vincent Szarek," www.paris-art.com, June-July 2006.

-Smith, Roberta. "Founders Day at Grimm/Rosenfeld," New York Times, August 19, 2005.

-UOVO, Torino, 2005, pp. 176-203.

-Levy, Linn. "L'esthete Matt Saunders filme ses obsessions." Tribune de Geneve, November 27, 2004.

-Horny, Tinga. Handelsblatt. September 10, 2004.

-Grabherr, Ariadne. "Ohne den Glamour vergangener Zeit." Vorarlberger Nachrichten, May 5, 2004.

-Berwick, Carly. ARTnews, January 2004.

-Schambelan, Elizabeth. "Critics' Picks: Works on Paper, Southfirst" Artforum.com, February 2004.

-Schambelan, Elizabeth. "Critics' Picks: Matt Saunders, Lombard-Freid" Artforum.com, September 2003.

-Madoff, Steven Henry. "Matt Saunders." Art on the Edge:17 Contemporary Artists, pp 61-64.

-Prague Biennial 1 (catalog).

-"Fair Play, Berlin," Boiler #2, 2003.

-Mar, Alex, "Rendered at Sara Meltzer," The New York Sun, July 24, 2003.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art, NY

Whitney Museum of American Art

Guggenheim Museum

Harvard University Art Museum

Yale University Art Gallery

Deutsche Bank Collection

PUBLICATIONS (as author)

-Focus Review: "Notation: Calculation and Form in the Arts." Artforum, February 2009

-"Working the Rooms," Texte zur Kunst, December 2008

-"To Everyone's Chagrin," Texte zur Kunst, September 2008.

-"New Premises," Texte zur Kunst, March 2008.

-"Epic's Journey: Rainer Werner Fassbinders' Berlin Alexanderplatz." Artforum, Summer 2007.

-"Review: Pawel Althamer at neugerriemschneider." Frieze, May 2007.

-Catalog essay, Jordan Kantor: Recent Paintings, Artists Space, NY, Sept 14-Oct 28, 2006

-"At Home He's a Tourist." 032c  #11: "Endless Europe: The Propaganda Campaign for an Old New Continent,"Summer 2006. 

-"On the Ground: Berlin." Artforum, December 2005.

-"Loose Canon: Jonathan Meese ist Mutter Parzival." Artforum, Summer 2005.

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

-Institut im Glaspavillon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, January 2007 - September 2008.

-"Out Riding Feet," Harris Lieberman, NY, January 2008

-"Pale Ramon," Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, November 2005.