Matt Town

Born Sarasota, FL 1989
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA


Education

California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA, MFA, 2017
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Film & Media Studies BA, summa cum laude, 2013
University of Florida Study Abroad, Berlin, Germany, 2012


Solo Exhibitions

Depressions, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2020
TRACE, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2019
PORTRAITS, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2018
SOAP, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 2014


Selected Group Exhibitions

2022
HELL MARCH, Eyes Never Sleep, New York

2020
Photographs for Purpose, organized by Kathryn Harrison and Michael Adno (online benefit)

2019
Demolition Derby, PSLA, Los Angeles, CA
Frieze x Ray Johnson Project, Frieze New York, NY
CO/LAB lll, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
scroll, The Reef, Los Angeles, CA

2017
Dysfunctional Formulas of Love, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
shadowbox, AR Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Clothing Optional, Cal Arts MFA 2017, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
After Hours, Stevenson Blanche, Valencia, CA

2016
Processed: a chacun son image, Centre Pompidou, Paris
After Hours, Stevenson Blanche, Valencia, CA
untitled, AR Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Matt Town & Deirdre Bailey, L-Shape Gallery, Valencia, CA

2015
Deirdre Bailey & Matt Town, Main Gallery, Valencia CA
Dark Matter, Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY

2014
Ophiuchus (Angela Ferraiolo & Matt Town), Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
NO SHOW, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2013
Tengu: God of Mischief, Salomon Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Present Processes (Stephanie Mack & Matt Town), The Doris, Gainesville, FL
FFW>>, Display Gallery, Gainesville, FL
Florida: Now and Again, The Atlantic Gallery, Gainesville, FL
Celebrating Europe, The Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
Burn it All, Civic Media Center, Gainesville, Florida, USA

2012
Hand Eye Coordination, The Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, USA
The Present, Grinter Gallery, Gainesville, Florida, USA


Art Fairs

NADA Fair, online viewing room, New Art Dealers, New York, NY 2020


Publications

“shadowbox” by Matt Town, exhibition catalog, AR Projects, Los Angeles, 2017
“BILL” by Matt Town, Clothing Optional exhibition catalog, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
“SOAP” images by Matt Town, (A)historicity a curatorial research publication by Michael Adno, 2014
“RACE: A Film” by Matt Town Tea Literary Magazine, University of Florida, pp.60-61, volume 15, 2013

Residencies

REEF Residency CalArts, Los Angeles, CA 2017-2018