Meserve Installation, 2009, exterior grade vinyl, 379 x 470 inches at Northeastern University, Boston, MA Meserve Installation, 2009, exterior grade vinyl, 379 x 470 inches at Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2004 MFA, Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1998 BA, Visual Arts and History of Art and Architecture, Brown University, Providence, RI

One and Two Person Exhibitions

2010

Riches, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA

2009

IRE & ICE, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Blind Spot, devening projects + editions, Chicago, IL

2008

Flatmosphere, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL

2006

Painted Sculptures, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX


Selected Group Exhibitions

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
Group Show, Park Life, San Francisco, CA
One Loses One’s Classics, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
Censor Approved, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Color, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA
The Lobby, curated by K. O’Hara and B. Kantrowitz, Watertown, MA

2008

Fabrications, O.H+T Gallery, Boston, MA
O.H+T Gallery, AquaHotel, 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
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

2006

Suburban: Normal, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Moreover: Practicing Representation+Abstraction, The Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL

2005

Young Mountain, The Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH

2004

An Accumulation of Convention: En Masse, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Swerve/Break, The Pond Project, Chicago, IL
Infra-thin, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL

2003

The Stage@The Stray Show, Chicago, IL
Catching Up With the Sun Part II, Klein Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Anti-Spacesuit/The Dirty Future, Gallery 2, Chicago, 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
Dia de los Muertos, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The 17th Annual Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts Boston, MA

2001

Addition/Subtraction, The Carlin Group, New York, NY
Frames of Reference, South End Library Gallery, Boston, MA

2000

Pulse, Gallery of Modern Art, Marblehead, MA
Repetition & Multiples, Gallery fx, Boston, MA


Awards & Fellowships

2009

Finalist, Sculpture/Installation Category, Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, Boston, MA
Meserve Competition, Northeastern Creates, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Summer Residency, Nes Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland

2003

Summer Residency/Fellowship, Terra Foundation for the Arts, Giverny, France

1997

Research Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, RISD Museum, Providence, RI

Press

2009

Matthew Rich at devening projects + editions, James Yood, Artforum, Summer 2009
Matthew Rich at devening projects + editions, Claudine Ise, bad at sports, March 23

2008

Matthew Rich in Chicago, Julie Brenner, artinfo.com, August 21


Public Collections

Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Duane Morris LLP
Longview Museum of Fine Art, Longview, TX

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