Gordon Matta-Clark (American, –1978)

Timeline

1943
Born in New York
1963–1964
Sorbonne University, Paris (French Literature)
1962–1968
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (Architecture)
1974
New York State Council on the Arts (CAPS) for Multimedia
1975
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Theodoron Award, Bienale de Paris
1976
New York State Council on the Arts (CAPS) for Sculpture
1977
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1978
Died in New York

Exhibitions

2017–2020
Gordon Matta-Clark Selected Exhibitions in 2017-2020:
Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York [itinerary: Jeu de Paume, Paris; Kumu kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts] [catalogue] (solo exhibition)
2019
Gordon Matta-Clark Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
all natural. 100 % Collections, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
AMBERES – Roberto Bolaño’s Antwerp, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA), Antwerp
Negative Space. Trajectories of Sculpture, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
2018
Gordon Matta-Clark Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Gordon Matta-Clark: Mutation in Space, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (solo exhibition)
Gordon Matta-Clark: Works 1970-1978, David Zwirner, London (solo exhibition)
25 Years! Shared Histories, Shared Stories, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland [collection display]
BEYOND THE STREETS, Werkartz, Los Angeles
Brilliant City, David Zwirner, Hong Kong
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue]
HONEY, I REARRANGED THE COLLECTION: #3 Bouncing in the Corner. Surveying Space, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg [collection display]
A Luta Continua. The Sylvio Perlstein Collection, Hauser & Wirth, New York [catalogue]
Polarities, TOTAH, New York
2017
Gordon Matta-Clark Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Cut, Split & Eat: Gordon Matta-Clark, Kasteel Wijlre, The Netherlands (solo exhibition)
Gordon Matta-Clark: The Notion of Mutable Space, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (solo exhibition)
Heidi Bucher - Gordon Matta-Clark: FLOORS, Alma Zevi, Venice [catalogue] (solo exhibition)
SPLITTING, CUTTING, WRITING, DRAWING, EATING…GORDON MATTA-CLARK, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal [catalogue] (solo exhibition)
A different way to move. Minimalismes, New York, 1960-1980, Carré d’Art - musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes, France
Artist Run New York: the Seventies, Jean-Paul Najar Foundation for Contemporary Art, Dubai
Home - So Different, So Appealing, Los Angeles County Museum of Art [itinerary: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [catalogue]
Kunst ins Leben! Der Sammler Wolfgang Hahn und die 60er Jahre/Art Into Life! Collector Wolfgang Hahn and the 60s, Museum Ludwig, Cologne [catalogue]
Life World, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Thea Djordjadze. Inventur SGSM, Pinakothek der Moderne, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich [catalogue]
The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Variable Dimensions - Artists and Architecture, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon
Wall Writers: Graffiti in Its Innocence, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver [catalogue]
Zwischen Räumen, ZKR - Centre for Art Project and Public Space Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin
2016
Gordon Matta-Clark Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Gordon Matta-Clark, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris (solo exhibition)
13th Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial 2016: Food - Ecologies of the Everyday, Alte Kelter Fellbach, Germany [catalogue]
Architecture of Life, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley [catalogue]
Cut, Folded, Pressed & Other Actions, David Zwirner, New York
FORTY, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
A Lesson in Sculpture with John Latham, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
MACBA Collection 31, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
Open Spaces | Secret Places: Works from the Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Radical Seafaring, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York [catalogue]
Sculpture on the Move 1946-2016, Kunstmuseum Basel [catalogue]
2015
Gordon Matta-Clark Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Gordon Matta-Clark: Energy & Abstraction, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue published in 2016] (solo exhibition)
Cuts: Video Works by Gordon Matta-Clark, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (solo exhibition)
Gordon Matta-Clark, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (solo exhibition)
75 Gifts for 75 Years, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Alfredo Jaar: Nous l’avons tant aimée la revolution/We loved it so much, the revolution, Musée d’Art Contemporain (MAC), Marseille, France
America Is Hard To See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [exhibition publication]
Arts & Foods - Rituals since 1851, La Triennale di Milano, Milan
Endless House: Intersections of Art and Architecture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Food, MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
Fuego blanco: La colección moderna del Kunstmuseum Basel, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid [catalogue]
Geometries On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present, The Warehouse, Dallas
Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
Imagining Space: Constructions of Text and Geometry, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
(im)possible! Artists as Architects, MARTa Herford, Germany [catalogue]
Irregular Rendition, Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut [exhibition publication]
Light and Space of the Void, Sandra Gering, New York
Maisons Fragiles, Hauser & Wirth, London
tout le monde, Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry - le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
2013
Gordon Matta-Clark, Suzanne Harris, Tina Girouard: the 112 Greene Street Years, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010
Urban Alchemy/Gordon Matta-Clark, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Louis, MO, USA (solo)
2010
Modernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland (Cat.)
2009
Modernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, MACBA Museum d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2007
Held together with water, MAK-Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst, Vienna, Austria
2007
Raum. Orte der Kunst, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2006
Mapping the studio, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, Holland
2006
THE DOWNTOWN SHOW, Scintillating survey of the New York Art Scene from 1974 to 1984 debuts at the Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library, NYU - New York University - Grey Art Gallery, New York
2006
The Empty Room, Henry Art Gallery - University of Washington, Seatle, USA
2006
THE DOWNTOWN SHOW, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
2006
Moving on: Motion, Group exhibition: Bas Jan Ader, Fischli & Weis, Rodney Graham, Mark Lombardi, Gordon Matta-Clark and Lawrence Weiner, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2006
Gordon Matta-Clark, MNCARS - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2005
Films, Drawings, Cibachromes, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA (solo)
2004
Projects and Photographs, MUDRIMAdrie Galerie Gianluca Ranzi, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
2003
The Complete Films, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2000
The City as Resource, Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2000
Dessins/Photographies et Tous Les Films, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
2000
Food, Magasin. Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
1999
David Zwirner Gallery
1998
Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
1998
Reorganizing Structure by Drawing Through It: Drawings by Gordon Matta-Clark, P.S.1, Queens, NY [itinerary: MACBA, Museu d'art Contemporani, Barcelona, SPAIN], catalogue
1997
Drawings, 1969-1978, Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
1997
Reorganizing Structure By Drawing Through It - Zeichnungen bei Gordon Matta-Clark, Generali Foundation, Wien und PS 1, New York, USA
1997
Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1997
Cut-Space, RIBA Architecture Center, London, UK
1997
Anarchitecture, MAK Center for Arts and Architecture, West Hollywood, USA
1996
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
1996
Gordon Matta-Clark, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, USA
1996
White Cube / Black Box, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
1995
Rhona Hoffamnn Gallery, Chicago, USA
1995
Internationale Biennale Graz, Austria

Public Collections

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Art Institute of Chicago
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
Colección Jumex, Mexico City
DZ Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Generali Foundation, Vienna
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Institut Valenciá d’Art Modern, Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwart, Vienna
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA)
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien (mumok), Vienna
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The San Diego Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tate Gallery, London
Verbund Collection, Vienna
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Literature

2003
Madden, Maari K, "Gordon Matta-Clark", The Guardian (February 22, 2003).
2003
Vidler, Anthony. "Splitting the Difference." Artforum. (Summer 2003), p. 35-36.
2002
Berwick, Carly, "Fallen Angles", Artnews (June 2002), pp. 92 - 95.
2002
Le Feuvre, Lisa, "The W-Hole Story", Art Monthly, (April 2002), No. 255, pp. 12-15.
2002
Richard, Frances, "Gordon Matta-Clark", Artforum. (April 2002), pp. 136-137.
2002
Smith, Roberta, "Gordon Matta-Clark", The New York Times. (February 8, 2002), p. E35.
2002
Ursprung, Philip, "Wie vom Reissbrett", werk, bauen + wohnen. (March 2002), p. 12 - 17.
2001
Baker, George, "At the Limits of Sculpture", Art Journal. (Fall 2001), pp. 105-07
2001
Canning, Susan. "New York." Art Papers Magazine. (November/December 001), p. 72
2001
Kastner, Jeffrey. "c.1975 and All That." Art Monthly, no. 249. (September 2001), pp. 1-4
2001
Tynan, Kenneth. "New York. City as Stage." The Observer. (February 1-April 29, 2001), p.20
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