Matt Bollinger
Born 1980, Kansas City, Missouri
Lives and works in New York State
Represented by mother’s tankstation limited and François Ghebaly Gallery
Education
2007
M.F.A., Painting Major, with Honors, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Sheridan Center Teaching Certificate, Brown University, Providence, RI
2003
B.F.A., Painting/Creative Writing Double Major, Valedictorian, Kansas City Art institute, Kansas City, MO
2002
Yale University School of Art, Norfolk Summer Session, Norfolk, CT
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Station, François Ghebaly, New York, NY
2022
Matt Bollinger, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Matt Bollinger, mother’s tankstation limited, Dublin, Ireland
Matt Bollinger, mother’s tankstation limited, Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
Matt Bollinger, Zürcher Gallery, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
2021
Collective Conscious, mother’s tankstation limited, London, England Furlough, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Labor Day, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Extended Present, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
2019
Three Rooms, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Matt Bollinger, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2017
Between the Days, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Independence, MO, Zürcher Studio, New York, NY
2015
Humeurs Noires, le Creux de l'Enfer—Centre d'Art Contemporain, Thiers, France
In Storage, Galerie Zürcher, Paris France
2014
Reading Rooms, Zürcher Studio, New York, NY
Odd Jobs, Times Club, Iowa City, IA
The Reservoir, Galerie Zürcher, Paris France
2013
Bed on the Floor, Zürcher Studio, New York, NY
2012
Between the Days, Galerie Zürcher, Paris, France
2011
about midnight Saturday, Zürcher Studio, New York, NY
Drawing Now, Art Fair, Galerie Zürcher Booth, Paris, France
Welcome Home Matt Bollinger, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2010
Miss You, artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA
2008
The Hypnotism, Plane Space, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2024
The Chicken and the Egg, Centre for the Arts Gallery, Towson University, Baltimore
2023
Disegno-in-Motion, Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, New York
Einstein on the Beach, Super Dakota, Brussels
Hello Animation Festival, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Heaven is a Different Thing, Unclebrother, Hancock, New York
2022
Blind Field, curated by Matt Bollinger, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
Reflections on Perception, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Alone Together: Encounters in American Realism, curated by Alex J. Taylor, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
2021
Re: Representation, curated by Dan Cameron, John Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA Road Rage, curated by Eric Fischl, The Church, Sag Harbor, NY Spring, curated by Kristopher Benedict, John H. Baker Gallery at West Chester, University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, PA
Group Show, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY Iconography: Artists Raising Children, curated by Daniel Gerwin, The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Domesticity, curated by Sasha Bogojev, Voler Gallery, Dubai, UAE All Figured Out, Zürcher Gallery, New York NY
2020
Melancholympics, curated by Sasha Bogojev, Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Matt Bollinger & Kyle Staver, Focus, curated by Jamillah James, The Armory Show, Zürcher Gallery Booth, New York, NY (two-person)
Sit Still, curated by Patty Horing and Deborah Brown, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY Brushwork: The Painted Animation, London International Animation Festival, Edge of Frame Programme, London, England
On Experimental Animation with Savinder Bual, Bristol Experimental Expanded Film, Bristol England
E-Motionø Support Group, curated by Lauren Powell, Art of this World, Online
FJORD Presents: An Evening of Animation, Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2019
Interior Monologues, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
The Practice of Everyday Life, Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Moving Pictures, Platform Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018
The Animated Image, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
Marx@200, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Motion Picture Shorts Program with Julian Kreimer, Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville, NY
Drawing In/Drawing Out, Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Parallel Practices, Visual & Performing Arts Center at Western Connecticut State University, Danbury,Ct
2017
Graphite Vision, Schick Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Figure/Ground, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, MA
2016
Domestic Seen, Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS
Past Imperfect, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brookly, NY
Intriguing Uncertanties, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Saint-Étienne Métropole, France
Introspective, BravinLee, New York, NY
You’ll Never Be Younger Than You Are Today, PLUG Projects, Kansas City, MO
2015
8 Painters, Danese Corey, New York, NY
Seattle Art Fair, Zürcher Studio Booth, Seattle, WA
Sensation, Projekt722, Brooklyn, NY
Place Names the Place, Eastern Michigan University Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI
You Don't Bring Me Flowers, 68Projects, Berlin, Germany
2014
Image Makers, Novella Gallery, New York, NY
Jeunes Créateurs a New York, Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne Métropole, France
Come Like Shadows, Zürcher Studio, New York, NY
About the Body, Gallery 1989, Larchmont, NY
2013
The First Ending: Resembling Noir, Zürcher Studio, New York, NY; curated by Matt Bollinger
Summer Show, Galerie Zürcher, Paris, France
Thunder Perfect Mind, Land of Tomorrow, Lexington, KY
Art Paris Art Fair, Zürcher Studio Booth, Paris, France
2012
Mark, Wipe, Scrape, Shape, Spaceshifter, Brooklyn, NY
Red Herring, FJORD, Philadelphia, PA
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Art fair, Zürcher Studio Booth, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Matt Bollinger, Marc Desgrandchamps, David Lefebvre, Taylor McKimens, Zürcher Studio, Paris, France
Room for Error, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
2010
In a Violet Distance, Zürcher Studio, New York, NY
Nice to Meet You, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY
Mutual Migration, Michael Rosenthal, San Francisco, CA
Fellows Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
2009
Invitational, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2008
New England/New York/New Talent, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Gangbusters, Plane Space, New York, NY
2007
Swap Meet, Ice Box, Philadelphia, PA
Not Pictured, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
Small Works, Rodger La Pelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2005
Young Art Alliance – Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Shifter Magazine: Desire and the Other, www.shifter-magazine.com
2004
The Fairytale Project, Fahrenheit Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2003
B.F.A. Show, H & R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
Curated Exhibitions
2022
Blind Field, curated by Matt Bollinger, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Stages, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY
2013
The First Ending: Resembling Noir, Zürcher Studio, New York, NY
Awards and Activities
2021
Fellowship in Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts
Podcast interview, Sound and Vision
Podcast interview, I Like Your Work
2020
Emily and Eugene Grant Merit Award, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
2017
Vimeo Staff Pick: Apartment 6F
2016-17
Fellowship, Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, New York, NY.
2015
Fellowship in Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts
2013
Video interview, Gorky's Granddaughter, New York, NY.
2010-11
Second Year Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA.
2009-10
Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA.
2008
Artist in Residence, Burlington City Arts, Seven Below Arts Initiative at the Barn. Burlington, VT.
2007
Nominated for a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
2006
Nominated for the Daedelus Foundation Grant, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2003
Valedictorian, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1999-2003
Dean’s List, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Public Collections
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Dole, France
Selected Bibliography
Bishara, Hakim, “20 Art Shows to See in New York This May”, Hyperallergic (online), May 9, 2023
Yao, John, “Matt Bollinger, Painter of the Forgotten”, Hyperallergic (online), April 26, 2023
Pricco, Evan, “Matt Bollinger's Narrative Fiction on Full Display in ‘Station’”, Juxtapoz Magazine (online). April 21, 2023
Pricco, Evan, “Matt Bollinger, the Realist of Fantasy,” Juxtapoz Magazine, Spring 2022
Auster, Paul, “Worms,” Harper’s Magazine, April 2022
Williams, Gilda, “Matt Bollinger: Collective Conscious”, Artforum, September, 2021
Judah, Hettie, “Matt Bollinger; Collective Conscious”, Art Monthly, No. 447, June 2021
Yau, John, “Matt Bollinger’ Working-Class Elegy”, Hyperallergic (online), April 2, 2021
Bogojev, Sasha, “Labor Day: Matt Bollinger Explores the Intimacy of Lost American Dreams”, Juxtapoz (online), November 10, 2020
Wagner, Josh “Matt Bollinger: Labor Day”, ArtNowLA (online), November 20, 2020
Bogojev, Sasha, “In Conversation: Matt Bollinger on his Hand-Painted Animations”, Juxtapoz (online), July 28, 2020.
Gauss, Daniel, “Matt Bollinger”, Wall Street International (online), July 23, 2020
Micchelli, Thomas, “Visions of Home, from Dream Memories to Trump Country” Hyperallergic (online), June 1, 2019.
Corwin, William, “Matt Bollinger: Three Rooms,” Delicious (online), February 26, 2019
Brown, Becky, “Matt Bollinger,” Art in America, February 1, 2018.
Yau, John, “12 Revelatory Exhibitions from 2017,” Hyperallergic (online), December 31, 2017.
Kardon, Dennis, “A cigarette is smoked, a phone is answered: Matt Bollinger at Zürcher” artcritical (online), December 13, 2017.
Yau, John, “Matt Bollinger’s America,” Hyperallergic (online), December 3, 2017.
Fullylove, Rebecca, “Matt Bollinger uses hand-painted stop motion animation to create this hypnotic thriller,” It’s Nice That (online), March 21, 2017.
Johnson, Ken, “What to See in New York Galleries This Week” New York Times, June 16, 2016.
Yau, John, “End of the Road: Matt Bollinger at Zürcher Gallery” Hyperallergic (online), May 15, 2016.
Turcan, Maud "Dans l'ombre de Matt Bollinger" La Montagne, June 22, 2015
Neal, Patrick "8 Figurative Painters in an Atemporal World" Hyperallergic (online), March 4, 2015
D'Agostino, Paul "L Rex: Art" The L Magazine (online), December 6, 2014.
De Santis, Sophie "Matt Bollinger" Le Figaroscope, April 29, 2014.
Dagan, Philippe "Matt Bollinger" Le Monde, March 23, 2014.
Ducat, Philippe "Les peintures collages de Matt Bollinger, peintre de la décroissance forcée" ArtPress (online) March, 2014.
"Come Like Shadows" The New Yorker, January 27, 2014
Hirsch, Faye "The Lookout" Art in America (online), March 28, 2013.
Kohler, William Eckhardt "Matt Bollinger at Zürcher Studio: The Road of Ashes" The Huffington Post Blog March 28, 2013
Kohler, William Eckhardt “Painting Lives! ‘Mark, Wipe, Scrape, Shape’ at Spaceshifter” The Huffington Post Blog November 29, 2012.
Ibarra, Ana “Kansas City Revisited” Elephant Magazine Issue 8 Autumn 2011.
Dagen, Philippe “Pourquoi les jeunes artistes font à nouveau du dessin” Le Monde March 29, 2011.
Indrisek, Scott “You Are Being Hypnotized” Anthem Magazine March/April 2008.
Walker, Steve “Insular Sex Scenes and Hints of Ridicule” Review Magazine March 2008
Strauss, R.B. aroundphilly.com, November 14, 2007.
Van Siclen, Bill. "RISD Students Rising" Providence Journal, May 22, 2007.
Fallon, Roberta. "Editor's Picks" Philadelphia Weekly, February 16th, 2005.
Publications
Yau, John, Matt Bollinger, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY 2019
Bollinger, Matt, “Construction and Erasure: Matt Bollinger on Narrative in Catherine Murphy and David Byrd,” Painters on Painting (online), April 23, 2018.
Hegyi, Lóránd, Intrigantes Incertitudes, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Saint-Étienne Métropole, France, 2016
Bouglé, Frédéric, Matt Bollinger: Humeurs Noires, le Creux de l'Enfer—Centre d'Art Contemporain, Thiers, France, 2015.
Bollinger, Matt, On the Roadie, 'Zine, edition of 100, 2015.
Bollinger, Matt, “Matt Bollinger on Gregory Gillespie,” Painters on Painting (online), February 12, 2015
Bollinger, Matt, Renovations. Artists book, edition of 50, 2015.
Matt Bollinger: The Reservoir, Zürcher Studio, Paris, 2014.
Ibarra, Ana and Marc Valli, Walk the Line: The Art of Drawing, Laurence King Publishing, London, England, October 22, 2013.
Humphrey, David, Matt Bollinger: about midnight Saturday, Zürcher Studio, New York, 2011.