2028 Public Installation, Wilshire/VA Station, LA Metro, Los Angeles, CA (w/ Victoria Fu)
2024 Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
2023 P&!NTING, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, CA Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
2022 Ever Present, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA collaboration with Milka Djordjevich (w/ Victoria Fu)
2021 and and and, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2020 P & ting, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 Monster A., Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA (w/ Victoria Fu) Friends with the Monster, w/ Marcus Civin, Station Gallery, Roski School of Art + Design, USC, LA, CA (w/ Victoria Fu)
2018 J A Zed Zed, devening projects + editions, Chicago, IL Monster A., University Hall Gallery, UMass Boston, Boston, MA (w/ Victoria Fu) Fat Flat, Appendix, Columbus, OH
2017 Yup Yup, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA (w/ Victoria Fu) Victoria Fu/Matt Rich, The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI Pink Cloud, Best Practice, San Diego, CA
2016 Versify, Halsey McKay Gallery @56HENRY, New York, NY Tilt & Table, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015 MOON MUTT, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY Ampersand, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
2013 Lookout Parade, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL Matt Rich, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX Razors & Vapors, devening projects + editions, Chicago, IL
2012 Patriot & Hatchet, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY Ghost Muscle, Samsøn, Boston, MA VOLTA NY, Samsøn, New York, NY
2011 Splitting, Nancy Lincoln Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA
2009 IRE & ICE, samsøn, Boston, MA Blind Spot, devening projects + editions, Chicago, IL
2008 Flatmosphere, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Waiting Room: Craft & Wellness, San Diego Central Library, San Diego, CA (w/ Victoria Fu)
2022 Quid Pro Quo, Very Projects, Boston, MA Campus Creatives, California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum, Escondido, CA
2021 New Iconography, The Landing, Los Angeles, CA (w/ Victoria Fu) NADA Miami, with Halsey McKay Gallery, Ice Palace Studios, Miami, FL Art Fair, Adventure Painting, Armory Off-Site project, with 1969 Gallery, New York, NY SD Practice, SD Commission of Arts & Culture, ICA San Diego, San Diego, CA While You Were Sleeping, La Montagne Gallery, Boston, MA Marking Time: What Athenaeum Artists Create in Quarantine, Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA 10 Years, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY Forces of Nature, San Diego International Airport, San Diego, CA (catalog)
2020 New Visions: Photo Triennial, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway (w/ Victoria Fu) Felix Art Fair, Document Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (w/ Victoria Fu)
2019 Byron Kim, Steve Locke, Matt Rich, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA Vanishing Act, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY (w/ Victoria Fu) This Skin of Ours, Miller ICA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, curated by Liz Park (w/ Victoria Fu) Summer Show, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA (w/ Victoria Fu)
2018 Being Here With You/ Estando aquí contigo: 42 Artists from San Diego and Tijuana, MoCA, San Diego, San Diego, CA Hog's Curve, organized by Joseph Hart, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY Art Los Angeles Contemporary with Halsey McKay Gallery, Los Angeles, CA San Diego Art Prize Exhibition, Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA High Key: Color in Southern California, ICA San Diego, San Diego, CA
2017 Brass Tacks, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA NADA Miami, Simon Preston, Miami, FL Summer Group Show, Document Gallery, Chicago, IL EXPO Chicago, Document Gallery, Chicago, IL Personals, Skowhegan NYC Office, New York, NY Flat Fix, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY Benefit, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Detroit, MI Benefit, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2016 Flat Fix, CODE Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark Shapes: Mary Heilmann, Sadie Laska, Matt Rich, Keith Sonnier, Blair Thurman; curated by Ellie Rines, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY 2016 Biennial Art Auction and Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA Patron Gifts, La Jolla Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA
2015 UNTITLED., Halsey McKay Gallery, Miami, FL Pattern/Chaos, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Making Strategies, Geary Contemporary, New York, NY Dallas Art Fair, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY The Physicality of Color, Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH Bouncing in the Corner, Samsøn, Boston, MA This Is Boston Not LA, Zevitas/Marcus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 VOLTA 10, Samsøñ, Basel, Switzerland Shapeshifters, Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO Object Object, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA 2º, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA
2013 My Crippled Friend, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH Paint Off/Paint On, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY Flat Field, Bleecker Street Arts Club, New York, NY Gallery Artists, Samsøn, Boston, MA Fiction Alters Form, .T.F.R. Gallery, Encinitas, CA
2012 Size Matters, DODGEgallery, New York, NY To The Venetians II: Chris Martin, Matt Rich, Ruth Root, RISD Painting Gallery, Providence, RI (curated by Dennis Congdon & Carrie Moyer) Temperature, Projekt 722, Brooklyn, NY Michele Grabner: The Inova Survey, Institute of Visual Arts, UW-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI New Prints, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
2011 The Thingness of Color: Sarah Cain, Franklin Evans, Matt Rich and Cordy Ryman, DODGEgallery, New York, NY Sculpture Garden/Painting Show, Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL Anthony Greaney x samsøn x DAN GRAHAM @ Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA Open Daybook, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA The Wrong Miracle, NoMíNIMO Espacio Cultural, Guayaquil, Ecuador Mass Cultural Council Visual Arts Award Recipients, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Where There Is, Galerie oqbo, Berlin, Germany Back and Forth, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX The Hendersons Will All Be There, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY Paper! Awesome!, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA Get It Together, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Riches, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA (two-person)
2009 Strange Loops, 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 (curated by Brion Nuda Rosch) One Loses One’s Classics, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO Censor Approved, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2008 Fabrications, O.H+T Gallery, Boston, MA O.H+T Gallery, Aqua Hotel, Miami, FL This is Boston Not LA, LaMontagne Gallery, South Boston, MA Pattern, Hallway Bathroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA A Cleaner Heart A Do It, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2018 Making Social, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
2015 Action Kits, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2007 Sum, Julian Scott Gallery, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT
2005 Slow Down - Contemporary Abstraction from Chicago, Meadows Gallery, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX (co-curated with Howard Fonda and featuring: Joe Baldwin, Marie Krane Bergman, Bill Gerhard, Michelle Grabner, Carrie Gundersdorf, Andy Hall, Aliza Nisenbaum, Clarie Sherman)
2003 The Stage @ The Stray Show, Chicago, IL (a collaboration with Shana Lutker)
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2019 Fellowship, Howard Foundation, Brown University, Providence, RI
2017 San Diego Art Prize, San Diego Visual Arts Network, San Diego, CA (w/ Victoria Fu)
2014 Residency, A Ship In The Woods, Del Mar, CA
2013 Residency, Fountainhead, Miami, FL
2010 Residency, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME Foster Prize Finalist, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Artist Fellow, Painting Category, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Boston, MA
2009 Mass Cultural Council Fellowship Finalist, Sculpture/Installation Category, Boston, MA Meserve Mural Competition Awardee, Northeastern University,
2003 Fellowship, Terra Foundation for the Arts, Giverny, France
1997 Research Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Education Department, RISD Museum, Providence, RI, featured collaboration with artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Exhibition Catalog, Why Photography?, Bjarne Bare, Behzad Farazollahi, Christian Tunge and Susanne Østby Sæther, eds., Oslo: Skira Editore
2019 Exhibition Catalog, This Skin of Ours, published by Miller ICA, Carnegie Mellon University,Pittsburgh, PA (essays by Wendy Vogel, Liz Park) Exhibition Catalog, Monster A., published by University Hall Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (essays by Marcus Civin, Ester Partegàs, Martabel Wasserman)
2018 Exhibition Catalog, Being Here With You: 42 Artists from San Diego, published by Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Exhibition Catalog, Hog‘s Curve, published by Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY( essay by Anika Selhorst) SD Art Prize (2017) Catalog, published by the San Diego Visual Arts Network, SD, CA (essay by Kate Clark)
2017 Artist Project, &, organized by Rakish Light, X-TRA Magazine, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Authored Essay, Looking at ten Untitled paintings by Caitlin Lonegan from Made in L.A. 2014 at the Hammer, Benefits of Friends Collected, v. 2. Project X Foundation for Art, X-Tra, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Authored Essay, Joseph Hart: Stagecraft, David Krut Projects, New York, NY
PRESS
2023 Art of the City: The shapes & sizes of San Diego abstractionist Matt Rich, The San Diego Union-Tribune, July 16 Review: Matt Rich at the Timken, Justin Duyao, HereIn Journal, San Diego, July 26
2022 Artist Interviews, Matt Rich’s Kaleidoscope of Colour and Form, Sophie Agocs, Art Plugged, January 10
2021 Matt Rich and Victoria Fu In Concurrent Solo Exhibitions, Art Plugged, November Constructs At The Landing Gallery, Lita Barrie, White Hot Magazine, May Remote Control: Issue 4. - The Portal Is The Place, Miller ICA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Feature, Elizabeth Rooklidge, Herein, San Diego, CA
2019 Review, “Miller Institute for Contemporary Art opens two very different exhibits with This Skin of Ours and Intersections”, Amanda Waltz, Pittsburgh City Paper, October 9 Review, “O.C. Museum of Art opens season 2 at its ‘Expand’ location,” Richard Chang, Los Angeles Times, April 11 “Spring Art Picks: OCMA, Elliott Hundley’s Dive into MOCA and More,” Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, March 21
2018 SD Art Prize winners‘ work on view at Athenaeum until June 9 in La Jolla, La Jolla Light, Lonnie Burstein Hewitt, June 1
2017 Featured Artist, Contemporary Art Daily, December Review, “Brass Tacks: 22 Jul 19 Aug 2017 at Anat Ebgi in Los Angeles, United States,” Wall Street International, August 19
2016 Review, Matt Rich: Tilt & Table at Holly Johnson Gallery, John Zotos, artltd, May issue
2015 Review, Action Kits Inspires Creativity, Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, March 24
2014 Matt Rich by Jill Spector, Benefits of Friends Collected, v. 2. Project X Foundation for Art, X-Tra, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Critic‘s Pick, Artforum, December 2013
2012 Matt Rich, Review, Stephen Squibb, Modern Painters, June Issue MATT RICH: Ghost Muscle, Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, April 18
2011 11 To Watch in 2011: Editor’s Picks, New American Painting Blog, January 10
2010 Eyes on the Foster Prize, Sebastian Smee, Boston Globe, September 24 Review: Matt Rich, Evan J. Garza, Art Papers, January/February Issue
2009 Matt Rich at devening projects + editions, James Yood, Artforum, Summer Issue
LECTURES
2022 Visiting Critic, Senior Honors Thesis, UCSD, La Jolla, CA Lecture w/Victoria Fu, Univ. Wisconsin - Milwaukee & Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, WI
2020 Lecture, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
2019 Lecture w/Victoria Fu, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lecture, Advanced Painting, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
2018 Panelist, An Artist’s Perspective: Materiality and Process, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA Panelist, Monster A., University Hall Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA Visiting Artist Lecture, with Victoria Fu, Framingham State Univ., Framingham, MA Panelist, High-Key: Color in Southern California, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2017 Performer, Ways of Seeing, KCHUNG, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Organizer and Moderator, Panel Discussion: ACTION KITS: What do we mean when we talk about participatory art?, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA Visiting Critic, MFA Program, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA Visiting Critic, Studio Program, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA Presenter, 1 Image, 1 Minute, Project X Foundation for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA