![BIOMatthew Mann is an artist living and working in Washington DC. Mann’s paintings interrogate the problematics surrounding the uses and traditions of painting and art history in consumer culture. Mann explores this by using humor and an array of subject matter including architecture, textile design, punk ephemera and art historical references. These subjects and their environments reflect his love of art history and painting, as well as his ambivalence toward their foundations and misappropriation. Mann’s recent exhibitions include the Necessity of Tomorrow at the Baltimore Museum of Art (2020), Fixer Upper at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2019); Mod Cons at Brick Red in New Orleans, LA (2018); Luxury Trouble at Studio 1469 in Washington DC.Mann has received grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, been a visiting artist at George Washington University, JOYA: Arte y Ecologia in Almeria Spain, the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Maryland Institute College of Art.Contact: mann[dot]matthewj[at]gmail[dot]com](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d70c489f7266bd5d5fd305/1556207987503-X5H6OIGXZ7OEDK57GDJH/web_St.+John+the+Baptist+for+Burberry.jpg)
BIO
Matthew Mann is an artist living and working in Washington DC. Mann’s paintings are mixed media paintings on canvas and paper that address a range of ongoing preoccupations with visual and commodity culture, history, landscape, architecture and the attention economy.
Mann’s recent exhibitions include the Necessity of Tomorrow at the Baltimore Museum of Art (2020), Fixer Upper at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2019); Mod Cons at Brick Red in New Orleans, LA (2018); Luxury Trouble at Studio 1469 in Washington DC (2017).
Mann has received grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, been a visiting artist at George Washington University, JOYA: Arte y Ecologia in Almeria Spain, the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Maryland Institute College of Art.
Contact: mann[dot]matthewj[at]gmail[dot]com
Solo +Selected+
2019 Fixer Upper, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Mod Cons, Brick Red Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2017 Luxury Trouble, Studio 1469, Washington DC
2016 Topocosm, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2014 Associative Fugue, Project 4 Gallery, Washington, DC
2013 Salon of Little Deaths, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC
2012 Buddy Pictures, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC
2010 The Cinecitta Chapel, Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC
Group +Selected+
2023
Interlude, Kreeger Museum of Art, Washington DC (curated Maleke Glee)
2020
Excellent Thought About a Quality Idea, Tephra ICA, Reston, VA (curated ‘sindikit)
The Why of Why Not / Necessity of Tomorrows, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (curated by ‘sindikit)
2019
All Together Now, Denovo Gallery, Washington DC (curated Amanda Jiron-Murphy/Ryan Datillo)
Dialogues, STABLE, Washington DC (Curated: Dr. Jordan Amirkhani)
2016
Strange Landscapes, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA (Curated: Karyn Miller/Blair Murphy)
2015
Shape Play, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA (Curated: Mark Brosseau)
2014
Real/Surreal, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013
Working It Out, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Obstructions, Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington, DC (Curated: Tim Doud)
Small Stories, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2012
Call and Response, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC
2011
New/Now, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC
Strictly Painting 8, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
Visiting Artist/Guest Lecturer
2017
George Washington University, Washington DC
2016
University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2014
MFA Critique Panelist, American University, Washington, DC
2012
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
American University, Washington, DC
Towson University, Towson, MD
2011
Luce Foundation Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
2009
Penn State University, Harrisburg, PA
Teaching
2014-2016
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, Painting, American University, Washington DC
2002-2004
Life Drawing; Drawing I & II, Maryland College of Art and Design, Silver Spring, MD
Awards/Grants/Residencies
2026
Interlude Artist Residency, Hudson, NY
2023
Artist Fellowship Program Grant - DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
2017
Joya: Arte Y Ecologia, Almeria, Spain
2014 - 2016
Artist Fellowship Program Grant - DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
2011-2013
Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship
2011
Creative Communities Fund Grant
2009
Young Emerging Artist Grant - DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Education
2002 MFA American University, Washington, DC
1999 BFA Central Missouri University, Warrensburg, MO
Biblio
2016
Andrew Nunes, 11 Artists Give Landscape a Much-Needed Makeover,
The Creators Project, August 12, 2016
Paul Shortt, Twee Brutalism, bmoreart.com, April 25, 2016
2015
Kristen Page-Kirby, Uncensored: Information Antics at MLK Library,
Washington Post, September 24, 2015 +Curated+
Nancy Gravitt, Uncensored: Information Antics, American Libraries,
September 28th, 2015 +Curated+
2014
Michael Iacovone, Tenuous Narratives, Bmoreart.com,
September, 2014
Jenkins, Mark, In the Galleries, Washington Post, October 10, 2014
2013
Ian McLean Davis, “I Will Not Think Bad Thoughts”, What Weekly, May 30, 2013
Louis Jacobson, “Reviewed: Matthew Mann at Hamiltonian Gallery”, Washington City Paper, May 23, 2013
2012
Jennifer Sergent, Art Basel’s Razzle Dazzle, DC Modern Luxury, December 3, 2012
2010
Michael O’Sullivan, “A Cryptic ‘Cinecitta Chapel’, The Washington Post,August 13, 2010
Louis Jacobson, “‘Cinecitta Chapel’ at Flashpoint”, Washington City Paper,
September 1, 2010
Karel Appel: Un Geste de Couleur by Jean-François Lyotard. (Jean-François Lyotard: Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists). Leuven University Press, dist. by Cornell University Press, January 2010 +reviewed for ARLIS/NA+
2009
Victoria Donohoe, "Come to the 'Circus", The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 10, 2009