Matt Johnson

**Matt Johnson** (født 1978) er en amerikansk skulptør. Han vokste opp i New York City, og er basert i Los Angeles. Han har utdannelse fra University of California, Los Angeles.

Matt Johnson lager humoristiske verk av hverdagslige materialer. Han er kjent for en innovativ manipulasjon av objekter, og blir sammenlignet med kunstnere som Tom Friedman og Charles Ray.

I 2013 ble Johnsons skulptur Levitating Woman kjøpt opp av C. Ludens Ringnes Stiftelse og stilt ut i Ekebergparken. I 2017 ble nok et arbeid av Johnson, Blooming Uterus, et tilskudd i kolleksjonen.

## Utstillinger

**2017**

Blooming Uterus, 2017, Ekebergparken Sculpture Park, Oslo

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

## Referanser


## Litteratur

* Johnson, Matt; Spengemann, Pascal (2012). *Small Sculptures*. Los Angeles: Wood Kusaka Studios.