TONY MATELLI [ARTIST]

Born 1971 in Chicago, IL
Lives and works in New York, NY


Website:
www.tonymatelli.com

Education:
1995 M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan.
1993 B.F.A., Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design,  Wisconsin.
1991 Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art - Independent Study, New York.

Solo Exhibitions:
2009 Life and Times, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Genéve, Switzerland
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2008 Tony Matelli, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
Tony Matelli, Gary Tatinsian Gallery Inc, Moscow, Russia
The Old Me, Leo Koenig Inc, New York, USA
2007 New Works, Leo Koenig Inc, New York   
2006 Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm  
Galerie Charlotte Moser, Genéve, Switzerland
Abandon, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain
2005 Leo Koenig Inc., New York
Fucked, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France.
2004 Fuck’d and The Oracle, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria
Abandon, Kunsthalle Wien, project space, Vienna, Austria
2003 Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf.
Total Torpor, Mad Malaise, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm.
The Happy Lion (Leo Koenig, Inc. & Galerie Michael Janssen), Los Angeles.
2002  Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, Paris.
Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome.
Gian Enzo Jr., Rome.
Bailey Fine Art, Toronto.
2001 Leo Koenig Inc., New York.
2000 Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf.
Ten in One Gallery, New York.
Torch, Amsterdam, Holland.
 Gone, Galerie du Triangle, Bordeaux, France.
1999 Abandon, University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.*
Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
Basilico Fine Arts, New York, USA
1997 Basilico Fine Arts, New York, USA
Ten in One Gallery, Chicago.

Group Exhibitions:

2009 Time - Life, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, USA
2008 D'une révolution à l'autre, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Faxination, Curated by Bull Saylor, Galleri LOYAL, Stockholm, Sweden
Another Mythology, State National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
New Meda, Stephane Simoens, Knokke, Belgium
Fuck You Human, Maribel Lopez Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Philip Akkerman & Tony Matelli, Self Portraits, Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Arts, Kokke-Zoute, Belgium
Evolution, Max Lang, New York, USA
Esculturismo, la Suma de Todas, Madrid, Spain
Attention to detail, curated by Chuck Close, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Betes et Hommes, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France
Undone, Tom holmes, Tony Matelli, Eileen Quilan and Heather Rowe, Whitney Museum at Altria, New York, USA
2007 Bad Planet, Gary Tatinsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Stranger Than Paradise, curated by Max Henry, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
I AM AS YOU WILL BE, Skeletons in Art, Cheim & Reid, New York, USA
PULL MY FINGER, Curated by Joe Zane, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, USA
Die Macht des Dinglihen - SCULPTUR HEUTE (The Power of thePhysical - SCULPTURE TODAY!), Geor-Kolde-Museum, Berlin, Germany
MAD LOVE - Young Art from Danish Private Collections, ARKEN  Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishöj, Denmark
 Still Life, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Baroque Biology: Tony Matelli/Alexis Rockman, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
NEW, Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke, Belgium,
2006 The Furnace, curated by Goschka Macuga, AFoundation, Liverpool, UK
Helter, Helter, curated by Mx Henry, Galerie Anne de Villepois, Paris, France
Hysteria Siberiana, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Into Me/Out of Me, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin,  Germany
5'000'000'000 d'années/5 Billion Years, Palais De Tokyo, Paris   
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France   
2005 Baroque and Neo-Baroque. The Hell of the Beautiful, The Domus Artium 2, Centre of Contemporary Art of Salamanca, Spain
The Most Splendid Apocolypse, P.P.O.W. Gallery, NYC
It'll Cost You…, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, LLC, NYC 
Figure It Out, Hudson Valley Center For Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Fairytales Forever H.C.Anderson 2005, AroS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Self Preservation Society, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, USA.
Leaving Cockaigne, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, USA.
 Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Consolidated Works, Contemporary Arts Center, Seattle, WA, Blue Star Art Complex, San Antonio TX.
2004 Editions Fawbush, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, USA
Contemporary Western Art, Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc. Moscow, Russia
Me, Myself and I, Schmidt Center at Florida University, Boca Raton Florida, USA
Mystery Achievement, Taxter&Spengemann, New York
I am the Walrus, Cheim & Reid, curated by Jan Avigkos, New York.
The Uncanny, Tate Liverpool, UK, Curated by Mike Kelley
Beautiful Grotesque, Riva Gallery, NYC
Making Visible, Gallery Faurschou, Copenhagen.
 Metamorphosis, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA.
Ten Commandments, Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany.
Altered States, Leo Koenig Inc., New York.
Five Billion Years, Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art, New York.
2003 Instructions, Kunsthalle Wien, curated by Gerald Matt Vienna, Austria.
One Hundred Artists, One Hundred T-shirts, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York.
Narcissus, CRAC Alsace, curated by Hilde Teerlinck Altkirch, France.
The Fourth Sex, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, curated by Francesco Bonami, Chicago.
Liquid Sky, FRAC, curated by Marc Olivier Wahler, Dijon, France.*
There’s always tomorrow, with Nicole Eisenman, Jeff Elrod, Torben Giehler, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy.*
2002 Artemis, Greenberg, van Doren Gallery, New York.
Leo Koenig Las Vegas, Neonopolis, Las Vegas.
The Dubrow Biennal, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York.
2001 Vrai que Nature, CAPC, Bordeaux, France.
The Americans, Barbican Gallery, London.*
Come on, feel the noise, Asbaek, Copenhagen.
SQUAT, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
2000 The Greenhouse Effect, The Serpentine Gallery, London.*
Climbin' The Walls Thinking It Might Be A Way Out, Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto.
Baberg, Matelli, Schabel, Paul Morris Gallery, New York.
Tomorrow, RareArt Properties, New York.
 Nothing, Andrew Kreps, New York.
Greater New York - New Art in New York Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York.
 Small World, MOCA, San Diego, La Jolla.*
Over the Edges: The Corners of Gent, curated by Jan Hoet, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium.
1999 Holding Court, Entwistle, London.
In the Public Realm, Public Art Fund, New York.
True West, curated by Jason Murison, PPOW, New York.
Contemporary Public Sculpture, organized by the Public Art Fund, Brooklyn.
1998 Beyond the Monument, organized by the Public Art Fund, Metrotech Center, Brooklyn.
 Yesterday Begins Tommorow, , Bard College for Curatorial Studies, curated by Francesco Bonami, New York.
Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum, Connecticut.*
Spatiotemporal-Works from the Collection 1988-1998, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden.
Pollution, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.*
1997 To be Real, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco.
1997 Bring your own Walkman, W139, Amsterdam
1996 Clarity, Northern Illinois University, Chicago.
1995 Thesis Exhibition, Cranbrook Academy of Art,
1995 C.A.A. Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
*Catalogue

 
Public Collections:
Akzo Nobel Art Foundation
ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark
Bonnier Collection, Stockholm, Sweden
FRAC Bordeaux, France
Magasin 3  Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Sundsvalls Kommun, Sundsvall, Sweden
Fundacion La Caixa Madrid
Musée d'Art Contemporain Montreal
Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbook, MI
CURIOUSLY STRONG Altoids Collection, NYC

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