TONY MATELLI Born 1971 in Chicago Lives and works in Brooklyn EDUCATION 1995 MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI 1993 BFA, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, WI 1991 Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art-Independent Study, NY SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO Tony Matelli: A Human Echo, Bergen, Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2012 Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm Tony Matelli: A Human Echo, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark Windows, Walls and Mirrors, Leo Koenig Inc., New York 2011 Falkenrot Preis 2011: Tony Matelli, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (cat.) 2010 The Constant Now, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm Tony Matelli: Mirror Paintings, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm Mise en Abyme, Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke, Belgium 2009 The Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, WI The Idiot, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow Life and Times, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva Abandon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2008 Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow (cat.) Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden (cat.) The Old Me, Leo Koenig Inc., New York 2007 New Work, Leo Koenig Inc., New York 2006 Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva Abandon, Centre d’Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona 2005 Fucked, Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, Paris 2004 Abandon, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (cat.) Fucked and The Oracle, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria (cat.) 2003 Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm Sies + Höke Gallery, Düsseldorf 2002 Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, Paris Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome Sperone Jr., Rome Bailey Fine Art, Toronto 2001 Leo Koenig Inc., New York Art Dealers Invitational, Marseilles, France 2000 Sies + Höke Gallery, Düsseldorf Ten in One Gallery, New York Torch Gallery, Amsterdam Gallery du Triangle, Bordeaux, France 1999 University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (cat.) Galerie Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm Basilico Fine Arts, New York 1997 Basilico Fine Arts, New York Ten in One Gallery, Chicago GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 Homes & Gardens, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles Desire, El Segundo Museum of Art, CA LOST (in LA), FLAX (France Los Angeles Exchange), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park Cultural Freedom in Europe, Sint-Lukas Gallery, Goethe Institut, Brussels 2012 Simulacrum, curated by Michael Goodson, including Libby Black, Tom Burckhardt, Folkert de Jong, Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg, Kiel Johnson, Taylor McKimens, Ree Morton, Kax Oshiro, Lee Stoetzel, Jude E. Tallichet, Allison Elizabeth Taylor, Jade Townsend; organized by Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH He Is Transparent, curated by Matthew Strauss, including Tommy Hartung, Eli Hansen, Cameron Jamie, Joyce Pensato; organized by Renwick Gallery, New York you, your sun and shadow, curated by Michael Jones McKean, including Hany Armanious, Rashid Johnson, Pam Lins, Ian Pedigo, Dario Robleto, Haim Steinech, Sarah Sze, Tatiana Trouve, Daniel Turner; organized by VCUarts Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA 2011 Dark Christmas, Leo Koenig Inc., New York December, curated by Howie Chen, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York Sélestat Biennal, curated by Hans Dünser, Olivier Grasser, Sophie Kaplan, Pierre-Olivier Rollin and Otto Teichert, Sélestat, France échos, Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris Small, Medium, Large, curated by Francis Briest and Susanne van Hagen, Donjon, France Pretty on the Inside, curated by Erik Parker and KAWS, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York Sculptures, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris Personal Structures, curated by Karlyn De Jongh and Sarah Gold, 54th Venice Biennale: ILLUMInations, Palazzo Bembo, Venice Impossible Vacation, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO 2 2010 Hunters & Gatherers, Gian Enzo Sperone, Sent, Switzerland A vos papiers, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva Transending…, LARMgalleri, Copenhagen Love in Vein, Gering & Lopez, New York No Show, Spencer Brownstone, New York Just Love Me, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg The Wasteland, The White Box, New York Both Sides of the Pulaski, curated by Andréa Salerno, Fine Art in Space, Long Island City, NY Hyping the Real, Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke, Belgium Realismus: Das Abenteurer der Wirklichdeit, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany (cat.) N’importe Quoi, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France (cat.) Back to the Future: Buy-Sellf, CAPC, Bordeaux, France Don’t Piss on Me and Tell Me It’s Raining, APEX Art, New York Blind Sculpture, curated by Gelitin, Greene Naftali, New York 2009 Ferne Näehe, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany (cat.) Infinitesimal Eternity, Images Made in the Face of Spectacle, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT The Effect of Modern Art on Green Circles, curated by Anselm Franke,Vanmoerkerke Collection, Belgium Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada The Figure and Dr Freud, Haunch of Venison, New York Time-Life, Taxter & Spengemann, New York Guided by Voices, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario Chasing Napoleon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Persona. Image. Time. Human Representation in Art: from Modernism to Present-day, The Cultural foundation Ekaterina, Moscow (cat.) Another Mythology, State National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow (cat.) Nature en Kit, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland (cat.) 2008 Philip Akkerman & Tony Matelli, Self-Portraits, Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Arts, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium Evolution, Max Lang, New York Esculturismo, la Suma de Todas, Madrid (cat.) Attention to Detail, curated Chuck Close, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (cat.) Faxination, curated by Bill Saylor, Gallerie LOYAL, Stockholm Another Mythology, State National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow New Media, Stephane Simoens, Knokke, Belgium Fuck You Human, Maribel Lopez Callery, Berlin 2007 Bêtes et Hommes, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris (cat.) Undone, Tom Holmes, Tony Matelli, Eileen Quinlan and Heather Rowe, Whitney Museum at Altria, New York Movement, Evolution, Art, The Cultural Foundation Ekaterina, Moscow (cat.) Stranger than Paradise, curated by Max Henry, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva I AM AS YOU WILL BE, Skeletons in Art, Cheim & Read, New York (cat.) Pull My Finger, curated by Joe Zane, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston Die Macht des Dinglichen – SCULPTUR HEUTE! (The Power of the Physical – SCULPTURE TODAY!), Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin (cat.) Baroque Biology (with Alexis Rockman), CAC in Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (cat.) Still Life, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand 3 2006 Hysteria Siberiana, curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Arts, Lisbon, Portugal (cat.) Five Billion Years, Palais de Tokyo, Paris The Furnace, curated by Goschka Macuga, AFoundation, Liverpool, UK Helter, Helter, curated by Max Henry, Galerie Anne de Villepois, Paris Into Me, Out of Me, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, PS1 / MOMA Contemporary Art Institute, Long Island City, NY (cat.) Create Your Own Museum, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow (cat.) 2005 Self Preservation Society, Leo Koenig Inc., New York Leaving Cockaigne, Leo Koenig Inc., New York It’ll Cost You…, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, LLC, New York Fairy Tales Forever, Homage to H.C. Andersen, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark (cat.) The Altoids Collection, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX, Contemporary Art Center, Seattle, WA Baroque and Neo-Baroque. The Hell of the Beautiful, The Domus Artium 2, Centre of Contemporary Art of Salamanca, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow (cat.) We Can Do It!, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow (cat.) 2004 Needful Things: Recent Multiples, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH Altered States, Leo Koenig Inc., New York Making Visible, Galerie Faurschou, Copenhagen The Ten Commandments, Die Zehn Gebote, Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany (cat.) I am the Walrus, curated by Jan Avgikos, Cheim & Reid Gallery, New York, NY Beautiful Grotesque, Riva Gallery, New York What is Art Good For? 100 x Kunst am Karlsplatz, Kunsthalle Wien, Installation in Vienna (cat.) Five Billion Years, curated by Marc Olivier, Swiss Institute, New York The Uncanny, curated by Mike Kelley, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England (cat.) Metamorphosis, John Michael Koehler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI 2003 101 Treasures of The Cranbrook Museum, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (cat.) 100 artists, 100 T-Shirts, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York The Fourth Sex, curated by Francesco Bonami, MOCA Chicago, Chicago (cat.) Extra, curated by Marc Olivier, Swiss Institute, New York (cat.) PLOP: Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund, curated by Tom Eccles, outside installations, New York (cat.) Liquid Sky, curated by Marc Olivier Wahler, Frac, Dijon, France (cat.) There’s Always Tomorrow: Nicole Eisenman, Jeff Elrod, Torben Giehler, Tony Matelli, Galeria Marabini, Bologna, Italy The Happy Lion, (Leo Koenig Inc. & Galerie Michael Janssen), Los Angeles 2002 Artemis, Greenberg van Doren Gallery, New York Barrocos y Neobarrocos. El Infierno De Lo Bello, Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain (cat.) Leo Koenig Las Vegas, Neonopolis, Las Vegas The Dubrow Biennial, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York 4 2001 Vrai que Nature, CAPC, Bordeaux, France The Americans, Barbican Center, London (cat.) Come on, Feel the Noise, Asbaek, Copenhagen 2000 Climbing the Walls Thinking It Might Be a Way Out, Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto Boberg, Matelli, Schabel, Paul Morris Gallery, New York Tomorrow, curated by Andrea Salerno and Mari Spirito, RareArt Properties, New York (cat.) 2000 The Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London (cat.) Greater New York, PS1, Long Island City, NY (cat.) Nothing, Andrew Kreps, New York