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Biography
Matt Johnson (born 1978) is an artist based in Los Angeles,
Johnson was born in New York City. He is a sculptor who creates humorous works out of everyday materials. His art has been compared to that of Tom Friedman and Charles Ray for its innovative manipulation of objects. His first solo show was in New York City in 2004, less than a year after receiving his Masters of Fine Arts degree from University of California, Los Angeles.
Exhibitions
2017
Matt Johnson: Wood Sculpture, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Wanderlust, The Highline, New York, NY
6’s and 7’s, Outdoor Sculpture at Marlborough Gallery Breezeway, New York, NY
Phoenix Rising: The Valley Collects, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2015
love or the lack of it, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain (forthcoming)
Small Sculpture, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014
Frieze Sculpture Park, London, UK
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Broadway Morey Boogie, organized by Marlborough Chelsea and presented by NYC Parks Department and The Broadway Malls Association
Lifelike, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, TX
2013
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
Lifelike, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, TX
2012
Levitating Woman, 2012, Ekebergparken Sculpture Park, Oslo
303 Gallery, New York, NY
The Perfect Show, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Eagles, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Lifelike, Walker Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN; traveling to New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
Blind Cut, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
Object Fictions, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Greater LA, 2nd Floor of 483 Broadway, New York, NY
2010
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
11th Triennale fur Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany (exh. cat.)
2009
Matt Johnson: Super System, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY
Abstract America, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Born in the Morning, Dead by Night, Leo Koenig, New York, NY
2008
PM Dawn, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY
Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
The Form Itself, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY
2007
Making Do, Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven CT
Time Difference: The Frank Wu Cohen Collection, Initial Access Gallery, Wolverhampton
All About Laughter, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Makers and Modelers, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Objects, Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland
Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006
Uncertain States of America - American Art in the 3rd Millennium, Serpentine Gallery, London
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2005
Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY
Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Sutton Lane in Paris, Sutton Lane C/o Galerie Ghisloine Hussenot, Paris
Thing, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2004
Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY
2003
Another Sculpture Show, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas
2002
Fondazione Ratti, Como
Four Times One Minus One, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles