BIOGRAPHY

Born 1963 Nevada, Iowa; lives and works in New York City

EDUCATION

1997 Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY

1996 MFA, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY 

1988 BA, film production/ film studies, The University of Iowa, Iowa City

1984 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

2008

Will Someone Please Explain It To Me, I've Just Become a Radical, Murray Guy, New York, NY

Paleography, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Play the Story, Frac Bourgogne, Dijon, France; traveling to Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

2007

Half Remembered, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX

Everything Has a Name, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum fuer Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany

Play the Story, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK; travelling to DCA Dundee Contemporary Arts; 

2006

Messages from the Unseen - Matthew Buckingham/Joachim Koester, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden

2005

Time Lines, Kunstverein und Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

Currents 94: Matthew Buckingham, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

Sandra of the Tuliphouse or How to Live in a Free State (with Joachim Koester), The Kitchen, New York, NY

Matthew Buckingham, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany

2004

Muhheakantuck - Everything Has a Name, Murray Guy, New York

Concentrations 44: Matthew Buckingham, A Man of the Crowd, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

2003

A Man of the Crowd, Murray Guy, New York, NY

A Man of the Crowd, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria 

Subcutaneous, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 

2002 

Definition, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY 

2001 

Subcutaneous, Murray Guy, New York, NY 

Matthew Buckingham: Video Ab Acht, Schnitt Ausstellungsraum, Cologne, Germany

Sandra of the Tuliphouse or How to Live in a Free State, (with Joachim Koester) x-rummet, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark; Capecete Projects, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (cat.)

2000

Situation Leading to a Story, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999

Contemporary Film and Video: Matthew Buckingham, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Films + Photographs + Drawings, Murray Guy, New York, NY

1998

Sandra of the Tuliphouse, (with Joachim Koester), Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009

Hidden in Remembrance is the Silent Memory of our Future, Contour - the 4th Biennial of Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium (upcoming)

Lives of the Hudson, Francis Young Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 

Everything Has a Name, Or the Potential to be Named, Gasworks, London, UK

2008

Questioning History: Imagining the Past in Contemporary Art, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Theaters of Memory: Art and the Holocaust, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

The Sound I'm Looking For, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Farewell to Post Colonialism: Thinking Through the Visual, The Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China

Reality Check, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

Nonknowledge, Projects Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving, Part II: Realisms, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC

Peripheral Look and Collective Body, Museion, Bolzano

Headlines and Footnotes, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Norway

2007

In the Poem About Love You Don't Write the Word Love, Overgaden Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

Buckingham Cesarco Lawler Ruppersberg, Murray Guy, New York, NY

Matthew Buckingham, Francis Cape, Kota Ezawa, Matthew Higgs, Murray Guy, New York NY

To The Point: A New Reality: Black and White Photography in Contemporary Art, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (catalogue)

Projecting Time, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany 

Mapping the City, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2006

1,2,3... Avant-gardes: Film / Art between Experiment and Archive, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, 

Liverpool Biennial International 06, Liverpool, UK

Nam June Paik Award 2006, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne Germany 

No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT 

Slow Revolution, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

Draft Deceit, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

2005

This Storm Is What We Call Progress, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK  

I really should..., curated by Stefan Kalmar, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

This Side Toward Screen, Murray Guy, New York, NY

("my private") HEROES, MARTa, Herford, Germany

The Corcoran Biennial, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hayward Gallery, London, UK

Documentary Creations, Kuntmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

Matthew Buckingham, Markus Schinwald, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany

2004

Faces in the Crowd, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

Rear View Mirror, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK

Common Property, Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, Germany

2003

Get Rid of Yourself, ACC Weimar & Stiftung Federkiel, Halle 14 Leipzig, Germany 

Territories, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany. curated by Anselm Franck and Sine Bepler.

Homeland , Whitney ISP, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY

Watershed: The Hudson Valley Art Project, Beacon, NY and surrounding locations

2002

Rent-A-Bench, curated by Jacob Fabricius, Los Angeles 

Nostalgia, Art In General, New York, NY

2001

Quality Street, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark

Definition, Murray Guy, New York, NY

2000

May Day Vienna, The Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria

La Ville, le Jardin, la Memoire-La Folie Section, Villa Medici/Académie de France, Rome, Italy (cat.)

Vague but True, curated by Catsou Roberts, Galeri Asbaek, Copenhagen, Denmark; Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY 

1999

The American Century, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

You Assume Certain Places Exist, Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels, Belgium

Parking, High Bridge Park, NY, organized by May Day Productions

1998

Nuit Blanche, ARC Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (cat.)

1997

Assorted Confabulations: Fiction + Interference, Consonni Centro de Prácticas Contemporáneas, Bilbao, Spain

1996

New Histories, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Spot Gallery, New York, NY