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Gordon Matta-Clark

(American, 1943–1978)

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Biography

Timeline

1943
Born in New York
1962 - 1968
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (Architecture)
1963 - 1964
Sorbonne University, Paris (French Literature)
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

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 - 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)
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
Modernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland (Cat.)
2010
Urban Alchemy/Gordon Matta-Clark, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Louis, MO, USA (solo)
2009
Modernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, MACBA Museum d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Public Collections

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
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
Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA)

Literature

2003
Madden, Maari K, "Gordon Matta-Clark", The Guardian (February 22, 2003).
Vidler, Anthony. "Splitting the Difference." Artforum. (Summer 2003), p. 35-36.
2002
Berwick, Carly, "Fallen Angles", Artnews (June 2002), pp. 92 - 95.
Le Feuvre, Lisa, "The W-Hole Story", Art Monthly, (April 2002), No. 255, pp. 12-15.
Richard, Frances, "Gordon Matta-Clark", Artforum. (April 2002), pp. 136-137.
Smith, Roberta, "Gordon Matta-Clark", The New York Times. (February 8, 2002), p. E35.
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
Canning, Susan. "New York." Art Papers Magazine. (November/December 001), p. 72
Kastner, Jeffrey. "c.1975 and All That." Art Monthly, no. 249. (September 2001), pp. 1-4
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