Matt Connors
Matt Connors (b. 1973, Chicago, IL) is a painter who creates impactful visual compositions, with a sustained interest in form and colour.
His work draws upon the history of painting and processes, particularly minimalism and abstraction, but is also influenced by design, poetry, writing and music. While his visual vocabulary is often borrowed from the modernist canon—colours, gestures, grids, framing devices and other geometric compositions—Connors’ approach is resolutely contemporary in both method and conception.
Artist: Studio
Artworks
Exhibitions
Publications
Body Forth / A Cliff to Climb, Matt Connors, Ryan Preciado, 2022
Matt Connors, Ryan Preciado
Body Forth / A Cliff to Climb, 2022
GUIL(D) E, Matt Connors, 2019
Matt Connors
GUIL(D) E, 2019
A Bell Is A Cup, Matt Connors, 2016
Matt Connors
A Bell Is A Cup, 2016
Machines, Matt Connors, 2014
Matt Connors
Machines, 2014
Correspondences, Matt Connors, 2011
Matt Connors
Correspondences, 2011
Press
Madeleine Clark "Matt Connors: Finding Aid at Goldsmiths CCA." Fad Magazine March 12, 2024
Roberta Smith "Art We Saw This Winter." New York Times January 4, 2023
Rory Mitchell "Matt Connors at Xavier Hufkins." The New York Times March 13, 2021
David Rhodes "Luigi Ghirri." The Brooklyn Rail October 2020
"'Painters Reply'." The New York Times July 31, 2019
Joe Fyfe "You Are in Good Hands with Matt Connors." Hyperallergic November 30, 2017
"Matt Connors." The New Yorker October 28, 2017
Jerry Saltz "I Love Canada’s 17-Artist State-of-the-Medium Spectacle ‘Make Painting Great Again.’ It Also Makes Me Worry for the Fate of the Lower East Side...." Vulture June 14, 2016
Lanka Tattersall "Best of Los Angeles, 2015." Art in America December 21, 2015
Alexis Georgopoulos "Matt Connors." ANP Quarterly October 1, 2015
Aaron Horst "Matt Connors at Cherry and Martin." Contemporary Art Review LA May 28, 2015
"SMC hosting art exhibit, artists’ reception." Santa Monica Daily Press February 12, 2015
Roberta Smith "The Paintbrush in the Digital Era." The New York Times December 11, 2014
Nora Griffin "Matt Connors." Art in America September 1, 2014
Karen Rosenberg "Matt Connors: 'Machines'." The New York Times May 15, 2014
Heather Harmon "Matt Connors: Off-the-Wall Artist." W Magazine April 11, 2014
"2013: The Year According to Matt Connors." Walker January 24, 2014
Christopher Bedford "Five Non-Figurative Artists on Abstraction." Frieze November 1, 2012
Kaveri Nair "Matt Connors." Artforum October, 2012
Suzanne Hudson "Matt Connors." Artforum January 2011
Matthew Bourbon "Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily." Artforum June 2011
Roberta Smith "Matt Connors: ‘You Don’t Know’." The New York Times December 9, 2010
Holland Cotter "On the Piers, Testing the Waters in a Down Art Market." The New York Times March 5, 2009
Roberta Smith "Is Painting Small the Next Big Thing?." The New York Times April 19, 2008
"Matt Connors." The New Yorker April 14, 2008
Stephen Maine "A Landslide and a Cocktail Party." The New York Sun March 20, 2008
Amra Brooks "Must See Art: "Abstraction at Michael Kohn Gallery." LAWeekly September 26, 2007
CV
Matt Connors
b. 1973, Chicago, IL
Lives and works in New York, NY
Education
2006
MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1995
BFA, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Finder, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Tune, Herald St, London, United Kingdom
2022
Invert, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland
Matt Connors, CANADA, New York, NY
2021
Swap, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2019
In Here, Herald St, London, United Kingdom
Figure, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird’s Lane, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2018
Look Up, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
The Monteverdi Gallery, Tuscany, Italy
Le Sirenuse, Positano, Italy
2017
Hocket, CANADA, New York, NY
2016
The Flat Voice, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, United Kingdom
stud/file, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2015
Not Straight, Herald St., London, United Kingdom
Bottoms, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Bottoms, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne, Germany
2014
Nick Relph, Herald St-Golden Sq, London, United Kingdom
ZONDER, KARMA Amagansett, Amagansett, NY
Machines, CANADA, New York, NY
Complaints III, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Matt Connors, White Flag Library, Saint Louis, MO
Synthesizer, Herald St, London, United Kingdom
Reverse Telescopes with Inflected Baffles, Karma, New York, NY
2012
Impressionism, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Sandpaper Sleeve, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Gas...Telephone...One Hundred Thousand Rubles, Kunsthalle Duesseldorf, Germany
Matt Connors: Line Breaks, VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin, Germany
You’re gonna take a walk in the rain and you’re gonna get wet, Luettgenmeijer, Berlin, German
2010
You Don’t Know, CANADA, New York, NY
Matt Connors, Four Boxes Gallery at Krabbesholm, Skive, Denmark
Dromedary Resting, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Enjambment, CANADA, New York, NY
Homonyms, LuttgenMeijer, Berlin, Germany
2007
Pre-Echo, The Breeder, Athens, Greece
2005
Freely Espousing, JeffBailey Gallery, New York, NY