Matt Greene (b.1972)

Born 1972 in Atlanta, Georgia, he lives and works in New York City.

Education:
1996 BFA, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA

Solo Exhibitions:
2009 Pictures of Women, Deitch Projects, New York
2007 The Defenders of Reality, Peres Projects, Los Angeles
2006 Surrender!, Deitch Projects, New York
2005 The Wilderness is Gathering Her Children Once Again, Peres Projects, Berlin
2004 We Are the Dead, Modern Art Inc., London
2004 She Who Casts the Darkest Shadow on Our Dreams, Peres Projects, Los Angeles
2003 Return to the Cemetery of Rock, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles

Group Exhibitions:
2010 Perform Now! Festival, Human Resources Gallery, Los Angeles
The Secret Knows, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Austin, TX and Los Angeles
Homunculi, Canada, New York
Skin Fruit, Curated by Jeff Koons. New Museum, New York

2008 Brooklyn is Burning, Glasslands Gallery, Brooklyn
Against the Grain, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Mannerfantasien 2, COMA, Berlin
Anthology, Otero Plassart, Los Angeles
The Left Hand of Darkness, The Project, New York
Unholy Truths, Initial Access, Frank Cohen Collection, Manchester, UK
Past, Present, Future Perfect, Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection, H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City

2007 Panic Room, selections from Dakis Joannou Works on Paper, Deste Foundation, Athens
Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation, Athens,
Gravity's Rainbow, Peres Projects, Athens
Traum + Trauma, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
Eden's Edge, Curated by Gary Garrels, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2006 Only the Paranoid Survive, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Swallow Harder: Selections from the Collection of Ben and Aileen Krohn, Frye Art Museum, Seattle
Panic Room, Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation Centre
For Contemporary Art, Athens
The Youth of Today, Curated by Matthias Ulrich, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

2005 LAXed: Paintings from the Other Side, Peres Projects, Berlin
The Zine UnBound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Draw, Galerie du jour agnès b., Paris
I Love Music, Creative Growth, Oakland, CA
JT Leroy, Origins of Harold, Deitch Projects and Art Production Fund, New York
The Dogs, Karen Lovegrove, Los Angeles
Noctambule, D'Amelio Terras / Fondation Dosne-Bibliotheque Thiers, Paris
Nina Bovasso, Matthew Greene, Lara Schnitger: Obsession, Diana Stigter Gallery,
Amsterdam
Axxxpresssunizm, Vilma Gold, London
Drunk vs. Stoned, Gavin Brown Enterprises at Passerby, New York

2004 Matt Greene & Banks Violette: lovesongs for assholes / the sixty-edged sword of the
androgyne, Peres Projects, Los Angeles

2003 Scream, Anton Kern Gallery, New York and The Moore Space, Miami
RETREAT, Peres Projects, Los Angeles
K48 Now Players, Curated by Scott Hugg, D'amelio Terras, New York
Transnational Monster League, Curated by Banks Violette, Derek Eller Gallery, New
York

1999 Tri-Annuale, Part One, Curated by Andrea Zittel, Los Angeles

1994 The Freed Weed, Curated by Dennis Cooper, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles

Books and Catalogues:
Skin Fruit: Seletions from the Dakis Joannou Collection. New Museum: New York.
MYTHTYM, Edited by Trinie Dalton. Picturebox: New York.
Hellbound: New Gothic Art. Edited by Francesca Gavin. Laurence King: London.
25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom, Edited by Eva Prinz. Abrams: New York.
The Judith Rothschild Foundation for Contemporary Drawings Collection, Catalogue Raisonné. MOMA Books: New York.
Mannerfantasien 2, COMA: Berlin.
Panic Room, selections from Dakis Joannou Works on Paper, Deste Foundation: Athens.
Fractured Figure, works from the Dakis Joannou Collection. Deste Foundation: Athens.
Traum/Trauma.Works from the Collection Dakis Joannou, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria.
Eden's Edge, Curated by Gary Garrels, Armand Hammer Museum: Los Angeles.
Surrender! Solo Exhibition Catalogue. Deitch: New York.
Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing. Phaidon: London.
Translation, Palais de Tokyo: Paris.
She who casts the darkest shadow on our dreams. Solo Exhibition Catalogue. Berlin:
Peres Projects.
Fabricius, Jakob. Yours Truly. Copenhagen: Recent Works.
Cooper, Dennis and Casey McKinney. The Freed Weed. Los Angeles: Richard Telles Fine Art.

Bibliography:
Smith, Roberta, "Skin Fruit: Anti-Mainstream Museum's Mainstream Show," The New
York Times, March 4, 2010.
"Eden's Edge Review," Frieze, Winter 2007, p.272-73.
Jacobs, Keith, "Matt Greene," Flaunt Magazine, issue 87, Fall 2007.
"The Defenders of Reality: Matt Greene at Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA,"
Marginal: The Male California Art Issue, June/July 2007.
Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review: Matt Greene," The New York Times, December 22, 2006.
Saul, Amelia, "Interview with Artist Matt Greene," TheFanzine.com, February 2, 2006.
Seymour, Lori, 2 magazine, Summer 2005, p.57.
Dhillon, Kim, "Matt Greene: dark master of the new gothic," i-D, March 2005, p.60.
Myers, Julian,"Matthew Greene," Frieze, Issue 89, March 2005.
Lo, Melissa, "Matthew Greene," Bridge Magazine, Dec-Jan 2004-5.
Weissman, Benjamin, "Slaves to the Visual: Ten Los Angeles Artists with the Gift," The Believer, Dec/Jan 2005, p.28.
Beyer, Charles G., "Scream" Flash Art March-April, p. 60.
Clem, Chivas, "Notes on Gothic" Scream (catalogue), Moore Space, Miami.
Cooper, Dennis, "First Take: Dennis Cooper on Matthew Greene," Artforum, January
2004, p. 132.
Goodbody, Bridget, "'Scream' at Anton Kern Gallery" Time Out New York February 5-
12, 2004, p.59.
Johnson, Ken, "Scream" New York Times, Art in Review section, February 13, 2004.
Saltz, Jerry, "Blotto, Meet Buzzed" Village Voice May 11, 2004.
Saltz, Jerry, "Modern Gothic" Village Voice February 4-10, 2004 Vol. XLIX No. 5.

Permanent Collections:
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Judith Rothschild Foundation
Contemporary Drawing Collection
Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada
Deste Foundation, Athens

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