# Matt Johnson (artist)

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.

## Selected solo exhibitions

2017
Wood Sculpture, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
'2015 '
Matt Johnson: Lautner Beams, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
2014
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
2012
303 Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
2009
Matt Johnson: Super System, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY
2006
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY
2004
Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY

## Selected group exhibitions

2017
alt-facts, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
Jump Ball, Dio Haria, Mykonos, Greece
99 Cents or Less, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
Concrete Island, Venus Over Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Phoenix Rising: The Valley Collects, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
6’s and 7’s, Outdoor Sculpture at Marlborough Gallery Breezeway, New York, NY
Wanderlust, The Highline, New York, NY
2015
love or the lack of it, curated by Friedrich Kunath, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
Small Sculpture, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014
Frieze Sculpture Park, London, UK
Broadway Morey Boogie, Broadway Malls, New York, NY, presented by Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
2013
The Perfect Show, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Eagles, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Funny, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
Lifelike, Walker Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN; traveling to New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, TX
Blind Cut, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
Object Fictions, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
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
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
11th Triennale fur Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany (exh. cat.)
2009
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
All About Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (exh. cat.)
Makers and Modelers, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Objects, Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland
Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Time Difference, The Frank Cohen Collection, Initial Access Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
2006
The World is Round, Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY (exh. cat.)
Clarissa Dalrymple’s Exhibition of Young Artists to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Bortolami Dayan, New York, NY
2005
Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, Astrup Fearnley, Oslo, Norway; traveled to Bard College, New York, NY; Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Reykjavik Art
Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic (exh. cat.)
Art Rock, Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Sutton Lane in Paris, Sutton Lane c/o Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Thing, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (exh. cat.)
2004
Magic Show, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mystery Achievement, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Project, New York, NY
Drunk vs. Stoned, Gavin Brown’s Passerby, New York, NY
Nature Study: A Selection of Artists’ from New York and Los Angeles, California State University, Bakersfield, CA
2003
Another Sculpture Show, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
Buy Contortions, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY
Threedimetrical, Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
California Welcomes You, Scope, Los Angeles, CA Ordinary Uncanny, Scope, New York, NY
Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA
2002
Four Times One Minus One, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy
Nanotechnology, The Whole Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Everything Everywhere, The H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore, MD