Matthew Northridge

Born in Manchester, New Hampshire 1974

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

Education

1999 MFA, Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1997 BA, Studio Art, Boston College

Solo Exhibitions

2012 Guest Spot, Baltimore, MD “Toward a New Form Order” (two-person exhibition)
2011 KANSAS, New York, NY “Pictures by Wire and Wireless”
2007 Kantor/Feuer Window, New York, NY “Memorial to the Great Western Expo”
2006 Western Exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois “Further Afield”
2005 The Process Room, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland “Havenhurst”
2003 Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY “Continent”

Group Exhibitions

2013 VCU Fine Arts Center, Richmond, VA “Land, Ho!” (curated by Holly Coulis and Ridley Howard)
Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY “Nearly Neutral”
Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH “Tiny”
2012 The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT “United States” (curated by Alyson Baker, Richard Klein, and Mónica Ramírez-Montagut)
City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA “Something Superbly Small”
2011 Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA “Seriality: Photographs from the Permanent Collection”
KANSAS, New York, NY “Free Play”
Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY “Paper A-Z”
2010 The LAB, Dublin, Ireland “Short Answers to Long, Complicated Questions: Mark McGreevy, Matthew Northridge, and John J. O’Connor”
Like the Spice, Brooklyn, NY “Drifting Away”
Christina Ray Gallery, New York, NY “Refresh”
Like the Spice Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “The World We Live In, the Worlds We Create”
92YTribeca Gallery, New York, NY “Skowhegan at 92YTribeca: An Alumni Exhibition” (curated by Marisa Sage, Christina Ray, and Grace Evans)
2009 Wallace L. Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA “Paper Explorations" (curated by Leigh Craven)
Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL “of or relating to the sky or visible heavens”
2008 Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina Greensboro “Art on Paper 2008” (curated by Xandra Eden)
The National Academy Museum, New York, NY “The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art” (curated by Marshall N. Price)
2007 Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH “Viewing MacDowell: Works by Recent MacDowell Colony Artists”
2006 Draiocht Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland, “X-Mass the Spot” (curated by Nevan Lahart)
The Kresge Foundation Gallery, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ/Shore Institute of of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ “The O Show” (curated by Matthew Fisher and Christina Vassallo)
2005 White Columns, New York, NY/The Queens Museum, Queens, NY “Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta Clark’s Fake Estates”
Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL “Things We Said We’d Never Do Again”
JET Artworks, Washington, DC
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY “Material Matters” (curated by Andrea Inselmann)
The Proposition, New York, NY “Paper Deviations”
2004 Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA “Intimate Purlieus: The Diminutive Landscape and Contemporary Art” (curated by Joyce Robinson)
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY “Open House: Working in Brooklyn” (curated by Charlotta Kotik and Tumelo Mosaka)
2003 The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY/The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA “Out of Site: Fictional Architectural Spaces” (curated by Anne Ellegood)
2002 Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA “Emerging New York Artists” (curated by John J. O’Connor)
The Hotel Nash, Miami Beach, FL “Fast FWD: Miami” (curated by Anne Ellegood)
2001 Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA “Constructions” (curated by Mary Sherman)
The Green Room, Brooklyn, NY “Just Like Heaven” (curated by Aaron Wexler)
Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY “City Rhythms” (curated by Titia Hulst)

Fellowships/Grants/Awards

2011 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture
2010 The Red Stables International Studio Residency, Dublin, Ireland
2008 The MacDowell Colony
Helen Foster Barnett Prize for Sculpture, National Academy Museum
2005 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Artist’s Residency Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art
2003 The MacDowell Colony
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Workspace Program: The Woolworth Building
2000 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

Visiting Artist/Lecturer

Dartmouth College, Sarah Lawrence College, Boston College, St. Anselm’s College, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Christie’s Education, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Parsons/The New School

Bibliography

2013 Nearly Neutral (exhibition catalog). Bronxville, NY: Sarah Lawrence College, 2013.
Woods, Baynard. “Toward a New Form Order.” Baltimore City Paper, January 2, 2013.
2012 Holland, Christian. “Matthew Northridge at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.” Art New England, November/December 2012.
Hodara, Susan. “Out of Many Themes, One Topic.” The New York Times, Sept.23, 2012, pg.WE12.
Matthew Northridge: Pictures by Wire and Wireless (exhibition catalog). New York, NY: KANSAS.
“In Conversation: Charles Gute Interviews Matthew Northridge.” NY Arts magazine, Vol. 19, summer 2012, pgs. 8-9.
Thompson, Adam. “Matthew Northridge, New York.” Art Papers, January/February 2012, pg.58.
2011 Winant, Carmen. “Critics’ Picks, Pictures by Wire and Wireless.” Artforum.com, December 2011.
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Buhmann, Stephanie. “Matthew Northridge: Pictures by Wire and Wireless.” The Villager/The Downtown Express, Nov.22, 2011.
2008 Hirshhorn Magazine, “New Art: Recent Additions to the Collection.” Fall 2008, pgs. 7-8.
Art on Paper 2008: The 40th Exhibition (exhibition catalog). Greensboro, NC: Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2008.
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