BIOGRAPHY
1951 Born in Santa Monica, California.
1974 B.F.A., California Institute of the Art, Valencia.
Lives and works in Berlin and New York.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Cristina Guerra, Lisbon. Before Breakfast
(24 May – 17 June)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Matt Mullican: Sunday, August 9, 1908
(2 March – 15 April)
2022 Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck, Germany. 50 Years of Work, organized by Possehl
Foundation (30 October 2022 – 8 January 2023). Catalogue.
St. Peter's Church, Lübeck, Germany. Church, organized by Possehl Foundation
(9 October – 6 November)
Cathedral Lawn, Domkirchhof, Lübeck, Germany. Five Color Garden, organized by Possehl
Foundation (17 July – 9 October)
Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp. Matt Mullican
(15 September – 12 November)
2021 Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills. Things to Change in Heaven, curated by Christine
Burgin (11 September – 7 November)
Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest, Romania. Matt Mullican: A chart between 5 worlds
(27 June – 20 September)
Massimo De Carlo, Milan. Centered
(25 May – 26 June)
Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Five Walls
(28 April – 19 June)
2020 Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck, Austria. Matt Mullican
(6 November 2020 – 29 January 2021)
Institute of the Croatian Academy, Split. Entering the Picture
(13 October – 14 November)
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich. Representing the Five World – 50 Years of Work
(11 September – 7 November)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Matt Mullican: Universal Perspective
(25 February – 31 July)
Musée des Arts Contemporains de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Grand-Hornu, France.
Matt Mullican: Representing the Work (16 February – 18 October). Catalogue.
2019 Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin. Matt Mullican: Red, Yellow, Green, In Time
(5 July – 31 August)
Skulpturenhalle, Neuss, Germany. Matt Mullican: Banners
(5 April – 11 August). Catalogue.
NC-Arte, Bogotá, Colombia. Matt Mullican: Representing the Work
(23 March – 8 June)
de Young Museum, San Francisco. Matt Mullican: Between Sign and Subject
(9 March 2019 – 26 January 2020)
2018 Cristina Guerra, Lisbon. “WHAT DO THEY FEEL”
(21 September – 16 November)
Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan. The Feeling of Things, curated by Roberta Tenconi
(12 April – 16 September). Catalogue.
2017 Mai 36, Zürich. Matt Mullican: Representing That world
(3 November – 23 December)
2016 Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Pantograph
(3 November – 17 December)
Camden Arts Centre, London. The Sequence of Things
(30 September 2016 – 8 January 2017)
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. Nothing Should Exist (11 June – 16 October).
Exhibition travelled: Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn, Germany (6 November 2016 – 19 February 2017). Catalogue.
Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Between
(11 March – 16 April)
2015 ProjecteSD, Barcelona. The Meaning of Things
(1 October – 14 November)
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels. Matt Mullican
(7 February – 14 March)
2014 Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck, Austria. Matt Mullican
(28 November 2014 – February 2015)
Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany. Books Representing Books
(21 November 2014 – 22 February 2015)
2013 Massimo De Carlo, Milan. Stone Video Rubbing Wire
(28 November 2013 – 18 January 2014)
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City. Matt Mullican: That World
(23 October 2013 – 20 April 2014)
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris. Collecting for the studio – Collecting 1959–2013
(14 September – 9 November)
Spazio Culturale Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy. The Meaning of Things
(6 July – 6 September)
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Vienna. 5 Worlds 12 Benches
(20 June – 3 November)
ProjecteSD, Barcelona. The Umbrella Corner 5/6
(19 March – 25 April)
Cristina Guerra, Lisbon. A Single Line
(17 January – 27 February)
2012 Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich. Who feels the most pain in the five worlds
(9 June – 27 July)
Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Berlin. Editions 1986–2012
(28 April – 1 September). Catalogue.
Klosterfelde Gallery, Berlin. Two into One becomes Three
(27 April – 30 June)
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Anvers, Belgium. Recent Works
(22 March – 5 May)
2011 ProjecteSD, Barcelona. City
(22 November 2011 – 18 February 2012)
Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York. Behind That Person
(3 November – 22 December)
Haus der Kunst, Munich. Organizing the world
(10 June – 11 September)
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich.
(9 June – 14 October)
Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastrich. Work in Residence #2 & #3
(June 2010 – 21 May 2011)
2010 Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France. 12 by 2
(4 June – 29 August). Catalogue.
Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands. Matt Mullican
(2 April – 29 August)
Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. Work in Residence #1
2009 Stuk Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium. Playground
(6–13 November)
Cristina Guerra, Lisbon. Inside Matt Mullican’s Cave
(22 October – 21 November)
Frac Ile-de-France, Paris. Planet of Signs: Concrete Erudition 1
(10 September – 15 November)
Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany. City as a Map (of ideas)
(29 August – 15 November)
Plug in ICA, Winnipeg, Canada.
(27 July – 22 August)
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich. Cosmology
(4 April – 23 May)
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris. Five x Five
(7 March – 11 April)
Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck, Austria. Matt Mullican
(March – June)
2008 Johanniterkirche Feldkirch, Austria. Shooting Inside
(17 October – 27 December)
Karsten Schubert, London. Combination of the Two
(8 October – 14 November)
Klosterfelde, Berlin. Subject Driven
(6 September – 25 October)
ProjecteSD, Barcelona. Notating Cosmology
(23 May – 31 July)
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp.
(13 March – 3 May)
Athletik Zentrum, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
The Drawing Center, New York. Matt Mullican: A Drawing Translates the Way
of Thinking (21 November 2008 – 5 February 2009). Catalogue.
2007 Georg Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna.
(9 November 2007 – 5 January 2008)
2006 Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Berlin. Editions and Multiples
(2 November 2006 – 27 January 2007)
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich. Talking the Talk, walking the walk
(9 June – 31 July)
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich. Direct Cast
(5 May – 23 June)
Tracy Williams Ltd, New York. Works from the 70's and 80's
(2 May – 21 June)
Cristina Guerra, Lisbon. Room Number 4
(3 May – 3 June)
Christine Burgin, New York. Three Suitcases of Love, Truth, Work and Beauty
(26 January – 11 March)
ProjecteSD, Barcelona. Breaking up is hard to do
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany. A guest at the Stuttgart Airport
Museion, Bolzano, Italy. Kunst auf der Baustelle / Art in Architecture Project
2005 O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria.
Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, Germany. Topiary
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria. Model Architecture
(21 October 2005 – 19 February 2006). Catalogue.
Galerie Nelson, Paris. Love, Work, Truth and Beauty
(10 September – 22 October)
Klosterfelde, Berlin. Two Rooms Learning from That Person's Work
(1 July – 17 September)
Museum Ludwig, Cologne. DC: Matt Mullican: Learning from that Person’s Work
(19 March – 12 June). Catalogue.
FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France. Mullican World
(14 January – 18 March)
2004 De Singel International Arts Campus, Antwerp. The Highway is the Audience
BASE Progetti per l'arte, Florence. About five videos and some banners
Tracy Williams, Ltd, New York. Nothing Should Exist
(16 September – 30 October)
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich. New Works
(23 January – 28 February)
2003 Cristina Guerra, Lisbon. Recent Works
(23 May – 28 June). Catalogue.
2002 Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck, Austria.
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich. No smoke without fire
(19 April – 25 May)
2001 Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Germany. Matt Mullican: More Details from an
Imaginary Universe (20 May – 12 August)
Massimo De Carlo, Milan. Matt Mullican
Klosterfelde, Berlin. Psycho-Set
Galerie Nelson, Paris.
2000 Fundação de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal. Matt Mullican:
More Details from an Imaginary Universe (20 July – 1 October). Exhibition travelled:
The Museum of Modern Art Oxford, England (22 October 2000 – 7 January 2001);
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (1 November 2000 – 7 January 2001); Kunstverein
St.Gallen Kunstmuseum, Switzerland (3 February – 29 April 2001); Krefelder
Kunstmuseum, Germany (20 May – 19 August 2001); Museion, Bolzano, Italy
(17 September – 23 November 2001). Catalogue.
Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York. Drawings 1970–2000
(26 May – 31 July)
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich. The Table of Elements, Drawings 1973–2000
(opened 26 May)
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, California. The Corner's Corner
(5 May – 7 July)
Galerie Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna.
(4 February – 31 March)
Galerie Brigitte Trotha, Frankfurt.
(February – March)
Murray Guy, New York. Bulletin Boards
(through June 30)
Henry Urbach Architecture, New York. Informations
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich. Physical Experiment. Catalogue.
1999 Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. Mullican Frame: More Details from
an Imaginary Universe (4 December 1999 – 16 January 2000). Catalogue.
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri.
1998 Stedeljik Museum, Schiedam, the Netherlands.
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich. Matt Mullican
(opened 27 March)
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris.
Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York. New Edinburgh Encyclopedia: The Paintings,
1991–1997 (31 January – 28 March)
Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York. Under Hypnosis 1996
(31 January – 28 March)
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles.
1997 Office Tower Manhattan Centre, Roomade, Brussels. Matt Mullican Under Hypnosis
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich.
Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg.
Wolfsberg Executive Development Centre, Ermatingen, Switzerland.
Hofgarten am Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin.
Massimo De Carlo, Milan. Matt Mullican
Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, New York.
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Kunstverein, Arnsberg, Germany.
1996 Janice Guy, New York. Matt Mullican: Works on Paper
Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf.
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. Matt Mullican: Centrum Sztuki
Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski (26 January – 24 March). Catalogue.
Museum Friedericianum, Kassel, Germany. Matt Mullican/Philippe Thomas
1995 Neue Nationalgalerie and Alexanderplatz-station, Berlin.
(Summer). Catalogue.
IVAM, Centre del Carme, Valencia. Matt Mullican
(11 May – 9 July). Catalogue.
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich. New Works
(opened 24 March)
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich.
Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan, France. Synaxis (mit Per Kirkeby)
1994 Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany.
Wiener Secession, Vienna.
1993 Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Massimo De Carlo, Milan. Matt Mullican
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati.
Graphische Sammlung der ETH, Zürich. Catalogue.
1992 Architektur Forum, Zü.3rich.
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles.
Texas Gallery, Houston.
Fondation pour l'Architecture, Brussels.
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California. Matt Mullican: The Spectrum of
Knowledge (21 May – 19 July). Catalogue.
Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa. Catalogue.
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York.
Galerie Metropol, Vienna.
1991 Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin.
Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland. Mullican/Weiner: In the Crack of the Dawn
Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam.
(22 February – 31 March)
Rijksmuseum Kroeller-Mueller, Otterlo, the Netherlands. Matt Mullican
(23 February – 5 May)
Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York.
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina. Matt Mullican: Recent
Projects (8 December 1991 – 6 January 1992). Catalogue.
1990 Portikus, Frankfurt am Main.
(17 November – 16 December)
Magasin - Centre d'art contemporain, Grenoble, France.
(16 September – 9 November). Catalogue.
List Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Matt Mullican: The
MIT Project (12 May – 1 July). Catalogue.
Galeria Atlantica, Porto. Matt Mullican
(May). Catalogue.
Ecole Régionales Supérieur d'Expression Plastique, Tourcoing, France.
1989 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC. Works: Matt Mullican
(6 December 1989 – 11 March 1990). Catalogue.
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston.
Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels.
Galerie Bruges La Morte, Bruges.
Oregon Art Institute, Portland. Exhibition travelled: Western Gallery, Western
Washington State University, Bellingham.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Projects 18: Matt Mullican
(24 August – 7 November). Catalogue.
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris.
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles.
Fuller/Gross Gallery, San Francisco.
1988 Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland. Matt Mullican
(opened 8 November). Catalogue.
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia.
Bath International Festival, Artsite Gallery, England. Mullican
(May). Catalogue.
Riverside Studios, London. Matt Mullican: Photographs and Posters
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati.
Michael Klein Inc. New York.
Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg.
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada. Matt Mullican: Untitled, 1986-87 (January – March).
Exhibition travelled: Manufrance/FRAC, St. Etienne, France (June – July); Brooklyn
Museum, New York (August – November); University Art Gallery, San Diego State
University, California (November – December). Catalogue.
1987 Fuller/Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco.
Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia. Matt Mullican. Banners,
Monuments and the City. Catalogue.
Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Gallery, Los Angeles.
Michael Klein Inc, New York.
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas. Concentrations 15: Matt Mullican
(31 January – 15 March). Catalogue.
1986 The Clocktower, New York.
Michael Klein Inc, Amsterdam.
The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse.
1985 Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne.
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles.
McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1984 Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, New York.
(1–29 December). Catalogue.
Galerie Schellman & Klüser, Munich.
The Queens Museum, New York.
Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva.
1983 Texas Gallery, Houston.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Catalogue.
1982 Mary Boone Gallery, New York.
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris.
Luigi di Ambrogi, Milan.
Institut Franco-Americain, Rennes, France.
1981 Galerie Tanja Grunert, Stuttgart, Germany.
Galleria Saman, Genoa, Italy.
1980 Mary Boone Gallery, New York.
1979 Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles.
The Kitchen, New York.
1978 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The Kitchen, New York. Matt Mullican
(1–13 December)
1976 Artists Space, New York.
1973 Project Inc., Boston.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Lieu d’Art et Action Contemporaine, Triennale Art & Industrie, Dunkerque. Chaleur
humaine. Consciences énergétiques (10 June 2023 – 14 January 2024)
Marlborough Gallery, New York. SCHEMA: World as Diagram
(3 May – 3 July)
Fundación DIDAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Unja colección privada, curated by
David Barro (11 February – 29 April)
2022 Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon. Other Memories, Other Destinies, curated by
Bernardo Mosqueira and Luiza Teixeira de Freitas (16 November – 18 December)
Gallerie delle Prigioni, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Treviso, Italy. Temporary Atlas: Mapping
the Self in the Art of Today, curated by Dr. Alfredo Cramerotti (5 February – 29 May)
Exhibition travelled: Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales (25 June – 25 September)
2021 Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York. Doomed and Famous: Selections from the
Adrian Dannatt Collection (16 January – 13 March)
2020 Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. In Situ: a changing installation
(15 September 2020 – 20 February 2021)
Cristina Guerra, Lisbon. Good Vibrations
(11 July – 28 August)
2019 Cristina Guerra, Lisbon. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART AND WESTERN
ANTIQUITIES, SECTION II DEPARTMENT OF CARVING AND MODELING:
FORM AND VOLUME, curated by Jens Hoffman (7 November 2019 – 18 January 2020)
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago. Signs and Systems
(11 January – 16 February)
2018 Cristina Guerra, Lisbon. 1000 imagens - uma palavra vale mais que mil imagens,
curated by Alexandre Melo (29 November 2018 – 5 January 2019)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California. Outliers and American Vanguard Art
(18 November 2018 – 17 March 2019)
WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels. Unexchangeable
(19 April – 12 August)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Outliers and American Vanguard Art
(28 January – 13 May)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Before/On/After: William Wegman
and California Conceptualism (17 January – 15 July)
2017 Stedelijk Museum, the Netherlands. Jump into the future - Art from the 90’s and 2000’s.
The Borgmann Donation (25 November 2017 – 4 March 2018)
Cristina Guerra, Lisbon. Wanderings, curated by Gregory Lang
(23 November 2017 – 5 January 2018)
Bienal de Arte Contemporeanea de Coimbra, Portugal. Anozero’17
(11 November – 30 December)
Artists Space, New York. Social Surfaces: A Fundraising Exhibition to Support Our
Relocation to 80 White Street in 2018 (27 October – 1 November)
Vienna Biennale, Austria. Atrificial Tears: Singularity & Humanness – A Speculation
(21 June – 1 October)
Skulptur Projekt, Münster. Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017
(10 June – 1 October)
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan. 99 Cents or Less
(19 May – 6 August)
Palazzo Fortuny, Venice. Intuition, curated by Daniela Ferretti and Axel Vervoodt
(13 May – 26 November)
Murray Guy, New York. Final Exhibition
(10 January – 4 February)
2016 IAC Villeurbanne, France. 2006 Immersions 2016
(2 December 2016 – 12 February 2017)
Anton Kern Gallery, New York. Implosion 20: Celebrating 20 Years
(10 November – 22 December)
MRAC, Serignan, France. Flatland/ Abstractions Narratives #1
(6 November 2016 – 19 February 2017)
ERES Stiftung, Munich. Ich Ist Eine Ego-Maschine
(12 October 2016 – 4 March 2017)
Espaco Novo Banco, Lisbon. Da Fuga e do Encontro: Inversoes do Olhar
(4 April 2016 – 30 March 2017)
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. ExtraNatural: A voyage of initiation
through the collection of the Beaux-Arts de Paris (18 May – 14 July)
2015 Museum Brandhorst, Munich. Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, curated by
Achim Hoch Hochdörfer, David Joselit, and Manuela Ammer (14 November 2015 – 30
April 2016). Exhibition travelled: Mumok, Vienna (2 June – 6 November 2016)
Pavillon de L’Arsenal, Paris. Dimensions Variables: Artists and Architecture, curated by
Didier Gourvennec Ogor and Gregory Lang (15 October 2015 – 16 January 2016)
21er Haus, Vienna. Flirting with Strangers. Encounters with Works from the Collection
(9 September 2015 – 31 January 2016)
Cristina Guerra, Lisbon. PICTURES and CREAM, The confidential report of the life and
opinions of Tristram Shandy & friends, Volume 1, curated by Paulo Mendes
(9 July – 26 September)
The Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles. Apparition: Frottages and
Rubbings from 1870 to Now, curated by Allegra Pesenti. (7 February – 31 May).
Exhibition travelled: Menil Collection, Houston (11 September 2015 – 3 January 2016)
De Kabinetten van De Vleeshall, Middleburg, the Netherlands. The Registry of Promise:
The Promise of Literature, Soothsaying and Speaking in Tongues (25 January – 29 March)
2014 Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Bringing Light into a Windowless Room
(26 June – 22 August)
Cristina Guerra, Lisbon. On Drawing II, curated by Bruno Marchand
(29 May – 23 August)
Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania. Push Play, organized by
Independent Curators International, New York (18 March – 20 April 2014). Exhibition
travelled: College of Wooster Art Museum, Ohio (13 January – 6 March 2015); Art
Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada (25 April – 3 August 2015); Handwerker Gallery,
Ithaca College, New York (1 October – 7 November 2015); Museum London, Canada
(30 January – 8 May 2016); The Rooms, Provincial Art Gallery Division, St. John's,
Canada (27 May – 28 August 2016); Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School
of Design / The New School, New York, (29 September – 12 December 2016); Hedreen
Gallery, Seattle University, Washington (12 January – 4 March 2017); Vicki Myhren
Gallery, University of Denver, Colorado (12 October – 31 December 2017)
The Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles. Take it or leave it: Institution,
Image, Ideology (9 February – 18 May)
2013 Kunst–Werke, Berlin. Painting Forever! Keilrahmen
(18 September – 10 November)
Biennale Arte 2013, Venice. The Encyclopedic Palace
(1 June – 24 November)
Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, Mexico City. The Architectural Ellipsis, curated by
Ruth Estevez and Javier Toscano (27 February – 16 June)
2012 Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Spain. Total City
(3 May – 15 July)
La Passerelle, Brest, France. The view from a volcano: the kitchen's soho years 1971–1985
(revisité) (29 February – 28 April)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Print/Out
(19 February – 14 May)
Villa Arson, Nice. L'Institut des archives sauvages
(17 February – 28 May)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the
1980's (11 February – 3 June). Exhibition travelled: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
(30 June – 30 September)
Carlier Gebauer Gallery, Berlin. The Poster Show
(20 January – 2 February)
Boston University Art Gallery, Massachusetts. 100 Years of Performance
(19 January – 25 March)
S3rd Hasselt Triennial, Hasselt, Belgium. Super Bodies
2011 CaixaForum, Madrid. The Persistence of Geometry, curated by Bartomeu Marí and
Nimfa Bisbe (14 December 2011 – 24 March 2012)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Under the Big Black Sun: California Arts
1974–81 (1 October 2011 – 13 February 2012)
Centre Pompidou-Metz, France. Erre, variations labyrinthinques
(12 September 2011 – 5 March 2012)
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. For Eindhoven - The City as Muse
(3 September 2011 – 8 January 2012)
Lieu d'Art Contemporain Narbonne, France. Playtime: Works from Klosterfelde Collection
(25 June – 25 September)
Kunsthaus Graz, Austria. Measuring the World: Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art
(11 June – 4 September)
The Kitchen, New York. The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen's Soho Years, 1971–85
(30 June – 27 August)
Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany. Wild Sky
(27 May – 14 August)
Singapore Biennale 2011. Open House
(13–15 May)
Berlinaire Festival, Vooruit, Gent, Belgium. When the Circus Leaves Town
(8–9 April)
Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge. FAX
(1 March – 10 April)
MNAC, Bucharest, Romania. Architectures/Dessins/Utopies: Works from the Centre
National des Arts Plastiques, Paris (24 January – 20 April)
Museum Liaunig Neuhaus, Austria. Realität und Abstraction. Figurative und expressive
Kunst ab 1980
Museu Colecçao Berardo, Lisbon. Mappamundi
(31 January – 25 April)
2010 41 Cooper Gallery, New York. The Crude and the Rare
(19 October – 20 November)
Serpentine Gallery, London. The Serpentine Map Marathon: Maps for the 21st Century
(16–17 October)
Gwangju Biennale, South Korea. 10.000 Lives
(3 September – 7 November)
Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland. Next Generation
(3 July – 31 October)
Renwick Gallery, New York. Held up By Columns
(8 July – 6 August)
Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany. FischGrätenMelkStand
(2 July – 31 August)
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich. Summer Show 2010: 20 Years Jubilee
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York. Stairway to Heaven: Paul Mc Mahon, Matt Mullican,
James Welling (9 June – 23 July)
The Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles. Outside the Box: Edition
Jacob Samuel 1988–2010 (23 May – 29 August)
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, England. The Glass Delusion
(21 May – 3 October)
Georg Kargl Box and Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna. Fine Line
(17 March – 24 April)
Vilma Gold, London. The Inhabitants
(14 March – 25 April)
Tannery Arts, Brunswick Wharf, London. Shudder at the Drawing Room
(21 January – 14 March)
b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum, Montabaur, Germany. Optical Shift – Illusion und
Täuschung/Illusion and Deception
Kunsthaus Grenchen, Germany. Amerikanische Grafik seit 1960-Aus Graphischen
Sammlung der ETH Zürich
2009 S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium. Gagarin: The artist in their Own Words
(4 December 2009 – 14 March 2010)
STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium. Playground Festival
(8–11 November)
William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis. Word
(25 September – 14 November)
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri. For the Blindman in the dark room
looking for the black cat that isn't there (11 September 2009 – 3 January 2010).
Exhibition travelled: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
(3 December 2009 – 31 January 2010); Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan
(5 February – 4 April 2010; de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam (12 February – 28 March 2010);
Culturgest, Lisbon (May – August 2010)
Le Plateau, Paris. La planète des signes (Erudition concrète 1)
(10 September – 15 November)
Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Croatia. American Printmaking since 1960, curated by
Paul Tanner (10 September – 15 November)
La Maison Rouge, Paris. Vraoum ! Trésors de la bande dessinée et art contemporain
(28 May – 27 September)
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain. Time as Matter: MACBA Collection –
New Acquisitions 22 (15 May – 31 August)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984
(21 April – 2 August)
Beaufort03, Ostende, Belgium.
(28 March – 4 October)
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Drawing in the World
(February)
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans. Just What Are They Saying...
Museum Rigionale di Messina, Italy. Twenty-Six Gasoline Stations ed altri libri d'Artista-
Una Collezione (January – April)
Innsbruck Contemporary, Austria. Utopics IC
2008 Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. Indirect Object
(2 December 2008 – 10 January 2009)
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France. La fête est permanente / The Eternal Network
(1 October 2008 – 9 January 2009)
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz. Knockin’ on Heaven's door
(26 September 2008 – 18 January 2009)
Centre Pompidou, Paris. Traces du sacré (7 May – 11 August). Exhibition travelled: Haus
der Kunst, Munich (19 September – 11 January)
Tracy Williams Ltd., New York. John Baldessari & Matt Mullican: Pong
(2 May – 28 June)
New Jerseyy, Basel. Cross/Cut: Team 404 & John Armleder
(opened 5 June)
de Appel, Amsterdam. Situations: The artist is a mysterious entertainer/Immovably Centred
(2–22 June)
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York. SAND: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor
(29 June – 14 September)
Den Haag Sculptuur, The Hague, the Netherlands. Freedom
(6 June – 31 August)
Whitney Musuem of American Art, New York. Whitney Biennial 2008
(1 March – 27 May)
Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil.
Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany. Vaduz The Message-The Medium as Artist
Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Germany. Sehen ganz nah end sehr fern
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich. Xx (Desperately) trying to figure out the world
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. The Puppet Show (18 January – 30 March).
Exhibition travelled: Santa Monica Museum of Art, California; Contemporary Museum
Honolulu, Hawaii; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Frye Art Museum, Seattle.
2007 Macba, Barcelona. A Theatre without Theatre
(16 November 2007 – 17 February 2008)
The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto. Auto Emotion
(18 May – 19 August)
Galerie Nelson, Paris. 25th Anniversary
(13 January – 23 February)
James Cohan Gallery, New York. Cosmologies
(11 January – 10 February)
Espace Henri Matisse, Creil, France. Traverser la ville
Gagosian Gallery, New York. Fit to Print
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Diagrammatic Logic: Selections from
the Collection
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Exhibitionism
Castillo/Corrales, Paris. HELLO GOODBYE THANK YOU
Artists Space, New York. REALLIFE Magazine: 1979-1990
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Timeout! Art and Sustainability
Mambo, Bologna, Italy. Vertigo-The Century of off-media art from Futurism to the web
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostella, Spain. Mapas,
Cosmogonias e Puntos de Referencia
Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland. The Secret Theory of Drawings
2006 Museo Serralves, Porto, Portugal. The 80s: A Topology
(11 November 2006 – 15 April 2007)
Centre Pompidou, Paris. Los Angeles 1955-1985: Naissance d'une capitale artistique
(8 March – 17 July)
Drawing Room, London. The Secret Theory of Drawing
ISELP, Brussels. Picto(s)
Maison Pour Tous Ste Savine, France. La mémoire, entre éternel et éphémère
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France.
White Columns, New York. Looking Back
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga
Springs, New York. And Therefore I Am, curated by John Weber
(11 February – 10 September)
2005 ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany. Light Art from artificial light
(19 November 2005 – 6 August 2006)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Ecstasy: In and About Altered States
(9 October 2005 – 20 February 2006)
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Leçon Zéro
(10 September – 29 October)
Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York. Traces Everywhere
(13 January – 26 February)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Gyroscope
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany. Funny Cuts-Cartoons und Comics in der zeitgenössischen
Kunst.
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland. Wolkenbilder
Gallery 825, Los Angeles. Interchange 3
Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York. Summer Group Exhibition
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Tear Down This wall: Paintings from
the 1980s
KW institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. The imaginary number
FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France. Contrée
Galerie nationale de la tapisserie, Beauvais, France. Trames contemporaines
2004 Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland. Global World/Private Universe
Stampa, Basel. Herzog & De Meuron + Matt Mullican
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich. Close by – Time Space Architecture
(13 June – 31 July)
Christine Burgin, New York. Your Fate, with Allan McCollum
(6 March – 24 April)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. The Big Nothing
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich. On Kawara, Ruff, Reis, Iglesias, César, Mullican, Sugimoto
2003 Kunsteverein, Hamburg. MAPPING A CITY: HAMBURG–KARTIERUNG
(22 November 2003 – 15 February 2004)
Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New York. Paradise/Paradox
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna. Re-Produktion 2
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro. Degrees of Abstraction: Selections from the
Weatherspoon's Permanent Collection
Musée d'Art Contemporain, France. Mouvements de fonds-Acquisitions 2002 du Fonds
national d'art contemporain
2002 Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich. Manifeste, oder: Egroffenheit-was ist das? Frühe Standards
seit 1960
Museyn De Beyers, Breda, the Netherlands. Lets Wat Zoveel Kost, Is Alles Waard. 10
Nederlandse privé-collecties
Pori Art Museum, Finland. Tansformer
2001 O.K. Centrum fur Gegenwartskunst, Linz. L'Effet Larsen. Exhibition travelled: Casino
Luxembourg, Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg.
Project Ansitz Lowengang, Magre, Italy.
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York. Digital Printmaking Now
Ancien Musée de Peinture de Grenoble, France. Passions Partagées, collections privées d’art
contemporain en Isère
2000 Massimo De Carlo, Milan. Projects
Kallman-Museum Ismaning, Germany. Skulpturenpark, Ismaning 2000
Museum Plantin- Moretus, Antwerp. Orbis Terrarum: Ways of Worldmaking
Hellga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg. Editions and Multiples, 1990–2000
1999 Provinciaal Fotografie Museum, Antwerp. Laboratorium
(27 June – 3 October)
Alexander and Bonin Gallery, New York. 1999 Drawings
Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam. Utopia 2: Same Player Shoots Again
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton. Souvenirs: Collecting, Memory, and Material Culture
Laboratorium, Antwerp.
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. Get together: Kunst als Teamwork
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. Stimuli
Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Video Virtuale Foto Fictionale
Edition Schellmann, New York. Wallworks
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna. Prepared
Version 4, Centre pour l'image Contemporaine, Geneva. Anticipation
Utrecht, the Netherlands. Art in Utrecht seen from the Dom Tower
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati. Text & Signifier
1998 Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany. Fast Forward
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Parallel Worlds
World Health Organization Headquarters, Geneva. The Edge of Awareness. Exhibition
travelled: United Nations Building, New York; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New
York; SESC de Pompeia, São Paulo; WHO, New Dehli.
Tate Liverpool, England. Art Transpennine
Jubiläum der World Health Organization, Geneva. Art of the world, zum 50
Galerie Werkstatt, Reinach, Switzerland. Skulpturen und neue Medien
Festival Werft, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Altered States
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam. Traces of Science in Art
Centro Culturale d'Arte, Pescara, Italy. Mostrato
Basilico Fine Arts, New York. Deep Thought
Version 4, Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine, Geneva. Anticipation
Vigeland Museum, Oslo. Pictures for the Blue Room
Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany. Jahresgaben
European Cultural Month, Linz, Austria. Poseidon's Eye
Central Fine Arts, New York. Modular Composite
Galerie Maerz, Linz, Austria. Peripheral Aspects of Drawings
1997 Documenta X, Kassel, the Netherlands.
(21 June – 28 September)
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland. Lost in Space
deSingel, Antwerp. Urban Space Part 3
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. Miniaturen
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Heaven
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California. ICONS: Magnets of Meaning
Kunsthaud Bregrenz, Austria. 50 Positionen
1996 de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam. Hybrids
Kunstverein Munich, Germany. Spaced Out
Triple X Festival, Amsterdam. Fragmentie/Fragmentation
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Under Capricorn
City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand. The World Over
Le Magasin, Grenoble, France. Auto Reverse 2
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich. How the Chicken Crossed the Road
FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France. New York City: Matt Mullican, Gerard Titus Carmel,
Richard Tuttle
Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, France. Artistes/Architectes
Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York. Limited Edition Books since 1990
1995 Galerie Valleix, Paris. La Galerie est devenue rose
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum and Kunsthaus Graz, Austria.
Pittura/lmmedia
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France. Passions Privées – Art Moderne et
Contemporain dans les Collections Particulières en France
Palais des Nations, Geneva. Dialogues de Paix
Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo State College, New York. 20 Years of Hallwalls
Contemporary Arts Center, 1975–1995
Detroit Institute of the Arts, Michigan. The Paine Webber Art Collection. Exhibition
travelled: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota;
San Diego Museum of Art, California; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami.
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent. US Corpus Delicti
1994 Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. Rosebud: Jenny Holzer, Matt Mullican,
Lawrence Weiner
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany. Tuning Up
Denver Art Museum, Colorado, and Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio.
Landscape as Metaphor
Haags Centrum voor Aktuele Kunst, The Hague, the Netherlands. The Ideal Place
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston. Out of this World
Saint-Gervais, Geneva. Version 1.0
Werkstatt Kollerschlag, Austria. Dokumentation Realisierter Projekte
Musée de Luxembourg, Paris. Dessiner une collection d’art contemporain:
Oeuvres du Fonds régional d'art contemporain de Picardie
1993 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. Network: The Olympic Collection 94
Louisiana Museum of Modem Art, Humblebaek, Denmark. At the Edge of Chaos
Grosse Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg, Berlin. First Europeans
Intercommunication 93, Shibuya BEAM Hall, Tokyo. Media Passage
Open Air Museum of Sculpture, Middelheim, Belgium. New Sculpture for Middelheim
New York. 42nd Street Art Project, organized by Creative Time.
Kunsthalle Vienna. Binaera.
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany. Fire, Earth, Water
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France.
Computerunterstützte Kunst
Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem, the Netherlands. The Uncanny
1992 Kunsthalle und Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland. Transform: BildObjektSkulptur im 20.
Jahrhundert (14 June – 27 September)
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany.
(12 June – 20 September)
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York. c. 1980
Victoria Miro Gallery, London. Instructions and Diagrams
Serpentine Gallery, London. Like Nothing Else in Tennessee
Louver Gallery, New York. Overlay
Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami. American Art Today:
Surface Tension
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago. Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York.
The Power of the City, The City of Power
Musée Sarret de Gronzon, Arbois, France. Excess in the Techno-Mediacratic Society
Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas. Summer Stock
Città di Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. Allocations / Art for a Natural and Artificial
Environment
Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York. Sculpture and Multiples
Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York. Works on Paper
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre, France. Ceci n’est pas une image, Les Inconodules,
l’Image aujourd’hui
Salle de la Légion d’Honneur, Saint Denis, France. Artifices
1991 Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles. Dark Décor, ICI.
Galerie XPO, Hamburg. Concept on Paper
New York. Geometric Considerations, Capital Cities and ABC
Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna. Anninovanta
Josh Baer Gallery, New York. The Library
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich. Selected Works
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Recent Acquisitions
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Selections from the Permanent
Collection, 1975–91
Systema Galleries, Baarn, the Netherlands. Gran Pavese
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica. Selections from the Norton Family Collection
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Denmark. Aussenraum Innenstadt
Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France. Les Arts Etonnants
Henry Ford III Gallery, Citibank, Long Island City. Zero Gravity
Espace Diderot, Rese, France. Un Art des Machines?
Michael Klein, Inc., New York. From the Train
1990 The First Tyneside International Festival, Newcastle, England. A New Necessity
Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden. About Round, Round About
Harcus Gallery, Boston. Works on Paper
New York Telephone Building, New York. Exchange of Information
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin. Word as Image: American Art 1960–1990
Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland. Selected Prints and Multiples
Werkstatt Kollerschlag, Austria. We Produce, We Show
Kunstborden, The Hague, the Netherlands.
Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva. Le Cabinet d’un Amateur d’Art
Ponton Temse ’90, Temse, Belgium
Galerie Antoine Candeau, Paris. All Quiet on the Western Front
Ecole Regionale Superieur d'Expression Plastique; Musee des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing,
France. Le Diaphane
Le Cargo, Grenoble, France.
Michael Klein, Inc., New York. Preview
1989 Harcus Gallery, Boston. Altered States
Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle. New York Artists
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio. Words and Images – Seven
Corporate Commissions
Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Conspicuous Display
Didactic Gallery, Plano. Messages
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. A Forest of Signs
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Whitney Biennial 1989
(18 April – 16 July)
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey. Art of the Eighties – from the Collection of the
Chemical Bank
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva. Hommage à la Declaration Universelle des
Droits de L'Homme
Kent Fine Art, New York. Public Domain
Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles; Joslyn Museum of
Fine Art, Omaha; Neuberger Museum, The State University of New York, Purchase;
Akron Art Museum, Ohio. Selected Works from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation
KunstRAI, Amsterdam. 32 Portraits: Photography in Art
Queens Museum, New York. Remembering the Future: The New York World’s
Fairs from 1939 to 1964
Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria. The Silent Baroque
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Image World: Art and Media Culture
Brooklyn Museum, New York. Projects and Portfolios: The 25th National Print Exhibition
Castello Svevo, Bari, Italy. Sculture da Camera
Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York. Drawings
Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York. Benefit for the Wooster Group
Johnson Gallery, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque.
Mullican + Mullican
Kent Fine Art, New York. Troy Brauntuch, Matt Mullican, James Welling
Fawbush Gallery, New York. Drawing
1988 The World Financial Center, Battery Park City, New York. The New Urban Landscape
(14 October – 15 December). Catalogue.
Galerie De Lege Ruimte, Bruges, Belgium. Group Exhibition
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York. Works on Papers
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva. Sculptures de Chambre
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia.
Lorence Monk Gallery, New York. Life Like
Centre Culturel de l’Albigeois, Albi, France. Mages et Images, Cimaise et Portique
Villa Arson, Nice.
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris. Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication
Schulman Sculpture Garden, White Plains. Desire Paths
Printing House Mart, Amsterdam. Betekenis
Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco. Matt Mullican, Annette Lemieux, Ericson/Ziegler
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago. The Inside and the Outside
1987 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California. Avant-Garde in the Eighties
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. L’Epoque, La Mode, La Morale, La Passion
First Bienal Internacional de Pintura, Museo del Arte Moderna, Cuerva, Ecuador.
A Different Corner - Definition and Redefinition: Painting in America
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York. On Paper
Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York. Monsters: The Phenomenon of Dispassion
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles. Wrinkled
Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York. Schema
The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, and Newport Harbor Art Museum,
California. CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s)
Jamie Wolff Gallery, New York. Real Pictures
Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles. Topology
Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Systems
Münster, Germany. Skulptur Projekte
Cornerhouse, Manchester. Wall Works
Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Gallery, Los Angeles. New Works
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich. Works on Paper
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris. Signes des Temps
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati. New Acquisitions
Texas Gallery, Houston. Works on paper
1986 303 Gallery, New York. Vito Acconci, Nancy Dwyer, Matt Mullican
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Sacred Images in Secular Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.
The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890–1985
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Individuals: A Selected History of
California Artists, 1945–1985
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio. Emerging Artists
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia.
Luhring, Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York.
Fortuyn/O'Brien, Lemieux, Mullican, Wool.
Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy. Sculture da Camera
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Au Coeur du Maelstrom
Centro Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensiones, Barcelona; Sala de Exposiciones de la
Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid. Art and its Double: A New York Perspective
Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York. Traps—Elements of Psychic Seduction
Kunstverein Munich, Germany. Geometria Nova: Helmut Federle, John M.
Armleder, Matt Mullican, Gerwald Rockenschaub
Michael Klein, Inc., New York. Mary Carlson, James Casebere, Fortuyn/O’Brien,
Matt Mullican
1985 The Museum of Modem Art, New York. Made in India
(8 November 1985 – 21 January 1986)
Parc Lullin, Geneva. Promenades
(9 June – 22 September)
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Signs
(27 April – 7 July)
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles. Wrinkled
Aorta, Amsterdam. Doppelgänger
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta. Rounding up the Usual Suspects
Hallwalls, Buffalo. Past/Future Perfect
Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte. Drawings
1984 North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. Drawing Exhibition
Bonnier Gallery, New York. Totem
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. Modern Expressionists: From Pollock to Today
Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York.
Artists Space, New York. Tenth Anniversary Invitational
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany. Idea
Koplan Gallery, Los Angeles.
Mary Boone Gallery, New York. Drawings
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna. Zeichen, Fluten, Signale. Neukonstruktiv und Parallel
1983 Stiftelsen Kalsvik, Stockholm. Ene International Samlung
Kunstmuseum, Lucerne; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany.
Back to the USA
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York. Intoxication
Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York. Modern Objects
Città di Genova, Italy. Notizie di lavoro d’Artista
1982 Mary Boone Gallery, New York. Ross Bleckner, Troy Brauntuch, Michael McClard,
Matt Mullican, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Gary Stephan, Robin Winters
Mary Boone Gallery, New York. Troy Brauntuch and Matt Mullican
Artists Space, New York. Return to Artists Space
Documenta VII, Kassel, Germany.
Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York. Sweet Art
1981 The Kitchen, New York.
Museo di San Agostino, Genoa, Italy. Idola: Inespressionismo Americano
School of Art and Design, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia.
1980 Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan. Horror Pleni—Give Me Time to Look:
Pictures in New York Today
1979 80 Langton Street, San Francisco. Masters of Love
1977 Hallwalls, Buffalo.
1974 Project Inc., Boston. Indian Summer
AWARDS
2022 Possehl Prize for International Art, Possehl Foundation, Lübeck, Germany.
1991 Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, New York.
PERFORMANCES
2023 Journey to the East, Glasgow. Live Performance Under Hypnosis
(Saturday, 23 September)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Breakfast
(Saturday, 1 April)
2022 St. Peter’s Church, Lübeck, Germany. Waking Up
(Saturday, 15 October)
2018 Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. The Feeling of Things
(Saturday, 26 May)
2016 The Kitchen, New York. That Person and That World
(Friday, 18 November & Saturday, 19 November)
2012 Musée du Louvre, Paris. Uncovering that person
(Friday, 19 October)
2011 Haus der Kunst, Munich. Under Hypnosis
(Sunday, 10 July)
2010 Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne /Rhône-Alpes, France.
(Friday, 18 June)
School of Fine-Arts, Lisbon.
(Thursday, 27 May)
2008 Whitney Biennial 2008, Park Avenue Armory, New York. Untitled
(Wednesday, 19 March)
2007 Power Plant, Toronto. Under Hypnosis
(Tuesday, 15 May)
Tate Modern, London. Under Hypnosis
(Saturday, 27 January)
2006 Culturgest, Lisbon.
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria. Model Behavior
(24 October 2005 – 19 February 2006). Catalogue.
The Frances Young Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, New York (Monday, 6 February)
2005 Ludwig Museum, Cologne.
2003 Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland. Untitled
l’Image Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève,
Switzerland. Matt Mullican
2002 Anton Kern Gallery, New York. Under Hypnosis
(Thursday, 14 November)
2001 Matt Mullican Studio, New York.
Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin.
2000 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, California
1998 Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
1997 Office Tower, Manhattan Centre, Brussels.
1996 Office for Contemporary Art, Brussels. Under Hypnosis, a series of 15 performances,
produced by Roomade.
1992 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York.
1985 Artists Space, New York. Memory Jam
(Friday, 17 May)
1983 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
1981 The Kitchen, New York. Matt Mullican, with Marc Gross, Hypnotist
(Wednesday, 4 November)
1979 Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles.
1978 The Kitchen, New York. Matt Mullican
(Saturday, 2 December)
The Kitchen, New York. Matt Mullican
(Sunday, 12 February)
Artists Space, New York.
1973 Project Inc., Boston.
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia.
TALKS & LECTURES
2018 The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. Matt Mullican
(Monday, 23 April)
Stedelijk Museum, the Netherlands. Matt Mullican: Subject Driven
Performance Lecture (Sunday, 4 February)
2017 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 7 x 7: Now Pictures Why, accompanies
Louise Lawler: WHY PICTURES NOW (Thursday, 4 May)
Hunter College Art Galleries, New York. Matt Mullican Lecture
(Wednesday, 29 March)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Elson Lecture Series: Matt Mullican
(Thursday, 2 March)
The Broad, Los Angeles. The Unprivate Collection: Erika Beckman + Matt Mullican
(Thursday, 3 August)
2008 Whitney Biennale 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Seminars with Artists (Tuesday, 25 March)
2006 The Frances Young Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, New York. Dunkerley Dialogue: Matt Mullican
(Thursday, 16 February)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2023 Zybok, Oliver, ed. Matt Mullican: Mapping the World (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther und Franz König, 2023). Exhibition catalogue.
2020 Leroy, Joanna, ed. Matt Mullican: Representing the Work 2018–2019 (Ghent: Musée des
Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu, 2020). Exhibition catalogue.
2019 Schwarz, Dieter, ed. Matt Mullican: Banners (Neuss: Thomas Schütte Stiftung, 2019).
Exhibition catalogue.
Tenconi, Roberta, ed. Matt Mullican: Photographs – Catalogue – 1967–2018 (Milan:
Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, 2019). Exhibition catalogue.
2016 Schwarz, Dieter, ed. Matt Mullican: Rubbings – Catalogue – 1984–2016 (Zürich:
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 2016). Exhibition catalogue.
Matt Mullican: That World. Excerpts from a Notebook 1973–1975 (Mexico City:
Museo Tamayo, 2016). Exhibition catalogue.
2013 Kung, Moritz. Matt Mullican: Editions – 1985–2012 (Berlin: Helga Maria Klosterfelde,
2013). Exhibition Catalogue.
Columbus, Nikki, ed. Matt Mullican: Subject Element Sign Frame World (New York:
Skira Rizzoli, 2013).
2010 Mullican, Matt. 88 MAPS (Paris: Three Star Books, 2010).
Ergino, Nathalie, ed. 12 by 2 (Dijon, France: Les presses du reel, 2010).
Exhibition catalogue.
Matt Mullican. City as a Map of Ideas – Book I: The List of Ideas (Reinbek:
GFLK Surveys, 2010).
2009 Cudel, Valérie, ed. Matt Mullican: Notating the Cosmology 1973–2008 (Valence:
Captures Editions, 2009).
2008 Ribas, Joao. A Drawing Translates the Way of Thinking (New York: The Drawing Center,
2008). Exhibition catalogue.
2007 Wilmes, Ulrich. Matt Mullican. That Person's Workbook (London: Ridinghouse, 2007).
2006 Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany. Pictograms - The Loneliness of Signs
Rollig, Stella, ed. Matt Mullican: Model Architecture (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2006).
Exhibition catalogue.
2005 Wilmes, Ulrich. Matt Mullican – DC: Learning from that Person's Work (Cologne:
Museum Ludwig, 2005). Exhibition catalogue.
2003 Mullican, Matt. Try and Beat This, Mars (Paris: Onestar Press, 2003). Exhibition catalogue.
Matt Mullican 2003 (Lisbon: Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, 2003). Exhibition catalogue.
2000 Mullican, Matt. Matt Mullican: Drawings 1973–2000 (Zürich: Mai 36 Galerie, 2000).
Exhibition catalogue.
Todolì, Vicente. Matt Mullican: More Details from an Imaginary Universe (Torino:
hopefulmonster, 2000). Exhibition catalogue.
1999 Ackermann, Marion. Matt Mullican: Details from an Imaginary Universe (Munich:
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 1999). Exhibition catalogue.
1995 Yvars, J.F. Matt Mullican (Valencia: IVAM Centre del Carme, 1995). Exhibition catalogue.
1993 Wilmes, Ulrich, ed. Matt Mullican: Works 1972–1992 (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König, 1993). Exhibition catalogue.
Mullican, Matt. Matt Mullican: World Frame (Tampa: Contemporary Art Museum,
University of South Florida, 1993). Exhibition catalogue.
1990 Meinhardt, Johannes, ed. Matt Mullican: The MIT Project (Cambridge: MIT List Visual
Arts Center, 1990). Exhibition catalogue.
1988 Princethal, Nancy. Matt Mullican: Untitled 1986/7 (New York: Michael Klein, Inc., 1988).
Exhibition catalogue.
Richard, Martin. The New Urban Landscape (New York: Olympia & York Companies /
Drenttel Doyle Partners, 1988). Exhibition catalogue.
1984 Celant, Germano. Matt Mullican (New York: Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, 1984).
Exhibition catalogue.
PUBLIC & CORPORATE COMMISSIONS
2012 PS 311, New York.
Berlin Brandenburg International Airport, Germany.
2011 Metro-North Railroad, Rye, New York.
2009 Beaufort, Belgium.
2008 Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
2007 Alexandria, San Francisco.
Copenhagen, Denmark. Public project intervention on foot bridges.
2003 BUWOG Apartment Complex, Vienna. 25 Gardens
Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, Germany. Topiary Garden
Bronx School for Law, Government & Justice, New York.
The Arts and Sciences Building, Akron University, Ohio.
2002 Fondation de France, Lille, France. Nouveaux Commanditaires
Rathaus Passage, Innsbruck, Austria.
Tokyo Niad (National Institute for Academic Degrees) Center, Japan.
2001 International Court of the Sea, Hamburg, Germany.
Lowengang Winery, Bolzano, Italy.
1999 Het Oosten on Sarphatistraat, Amsterdam
Autostadt, Wolfsburg, Germany.
Schiphol International Airport, Amsterdam.
1998 Schiedam, the Netherlands.
1997 Miyagi University, Japan.
City of Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
1996 Swiss Bank Union, Zug, Switzerland.
1995 Allgemeine Versicherung, Braunschweig Hypo-Bank, Gera, Germany.
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, City of New York Parks and Recreation.
1994 Stadtsparkasse, Wetzlar, Germany.
Lyon Parc Auto, Place des Terraux, France.
1993 Los Angeles Convention Center, California.
NUR Frankfurt, Germany.
1992 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California.
University of Houston, Texas.
Expo 92, Sevilla, Spain.
Floriade 92, Zoetermeer, the Netherlands.
1990 Swiss Bank Corporation, New York.
Musée des Beaux Arts, Tourcoign, France.
1989 Arts for Transit, Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York.
1988 Deutsche Leasing, Frankfurt, Germany.
1987 Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag Skulptur Projekte, Münster, Germany.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
Laguna Art Museum, California
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Tate, London
University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Illinois
University of Houston Public Art Collection, Texas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York