Matthew Carver (c. 1968, Canada)

 

Education

2005 M.A. Fine Art with Distinction, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London, UK

1992 B.F.A. Honours Degree, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University, CA

 

Awards & Grants

2014 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant to Professionals in the Visual Arts

2013 Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grant to Visual Artists

2010 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant to Professionals in the Visual Arts

2001 Singleton Family Scholarship, The Banff Centre for the Arts

2001 Ontario Arts Council, Individual Visual Artist Grant – Emerging Artist

2000 The Canadian Emerging Artist Prize, First Prize

1990-91 Jack Bush Scholarship, York University

 

Select Solo Exhibitions

2025 Hyperstition, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2021 Spring 21, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2019 Ghost in the Machine, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2015 Night of the World, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2012 Polizei, UWAG, Gallery One, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, CA

2011 Polizei, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2009 Fractures, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, DE

2009 Sirens and Lights, Gallerie Taksu, Kuala Lumpur, MY

2008 The Floating World, Museum London, CA

2007 Bright Lights, Big City, Taksu Singapore, SG

2007 Gallerie Taksu, Kuala Lumpur, MY

2004 Neo Tokyo, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, CA

2001 Distemper, 64 Steps Contemporary Art, Toronto, CA

1999 Cappuccino, Temporary Bus Stop (Katharine Mulherin Contemporary), Toronto, CA

1999 Juice Kings, Bus Gallery (Katharine Mulherin Contemporary), Toronto, CA

 

Select Group Shows

2024 Winter Group Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2023 Director’s Choice, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2020 The Auto Show, United Contemporary, Toronto, CA

2018 Multi Layered Surfaces, Prince Takamado Gallery, The Embassy of Canada, Tokyo, JP

2018 Multi Layered Surfaces, Nihonbashi Institute of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP

2018 Summer Group Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2017 Director’s Choice, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2017 Elusive Utopias (Matthew Carver, Renee Van Halm, Ian McLean and Kevin Yates), Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Canada, CA

2016 London Biennale Manila Pollination, Manila, PH

In/Outsource Nei Xiao/ Wei bao 

Andy Denzler (CH ) Adad Hanna (CAN), Arya Pandualu (INDO), Deng Dai Fei (CN), Ed Pien (CAN), Gao Brothers (CN), Isabelle Wenzel (GR) Jonathan Mongnahan (USA), Judy Ross (GR), Ken Lum (Can), Liu Ding (CN) Lin Jing Jing (CN), Ma Yongfeng (CN), Matthew Carver (CAN), Patty Chang and David Kelly (USA), Sara Anne Johnson (Can) Shen Yi Elsie (CN) Thomas Baumann (AU) Wangongxin (CN) Wibowo Adi (INDO),Xiaojing Yan (CAN), Zhang Zhaohui (CN).

2015 Director’s Choice II, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2014 AMNUA, The Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, CN

2014 Summer Group Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2012 Uncertain World (Matthew Carver, Susan Dobson, Shelley Niro & Kelly Richardson) UWAG, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, CA

2012 The Samawi Collection II, Ayyam Art Center, Dubai, AE 

2011 Speed Demon (Don Bonham, Matthew Carver, Murray Favro, Steven Laurie, Ron Martin, Royden Rabinowitch, John Scott, Masashi Iwasaki & Tadasu Takamine), Museum London, CA

2011 Wolfgang Petrick, Artists Anonymous, Matthew Carver and Chul-Hyun Ahn, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, DE

2011 12th Cairo Biennale, Cairo, EG

2010 Fuck Ups, Fables and Fiascos, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, DE

2010 Globalised Nature, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, DE

2010 New Space, Taksu Singapore, SG

2008 Light and Transition, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, DE

2007 Cropped, Slot, Alexandria, NSW, AU

2007 Anticipation (curated by Flora Fairbairn, Kay Saatchi and Catriona Warren), One One One, London, UK

2007 Noon Day Demons: Hold Onto Your Ego, Studio 1.1, London, UK

2007 Disposable Fetish, The Nunnery Gallery, London, UK

2005 Nasi Campur, Taksu Singapore, SG

2004 Group Show, Gallerie Taksu, Kuala Lumpur, MY

2004, Taksu Singapore, SG

2002 Configuration  {Two Person Show with Christina Sealey}, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, CA

2000 December Show, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, CA

2000 Last Century Modern, SPIN Gallery, Toronto, CA

2000 Vancouver Fall Show, CA

2000 Douglas Udell Gallery, 1558 West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, CA

2000 Good ‘n’ Plenty: Food as Visual Culture, 1926 Exhibition Study Space: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US

2000 Room {Two Person Show with Gillian Iles} loop, 1174 Queen Street West, Toronto, CA

2000 loop: Inaugural Exhibition, 1174 Queen Street West, Toronto, CA

1999 Personal Grounds, 431 King Street West, Toronto, CA

1998 Tall Orders: On the Spiritual in Art, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, CA

1998 Gallery Artists, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, CA

 

Art Fairs

2019 Art Toronto, Toronto, CA

2018 Art Miami, Miami, US

2017 Art Toronto, Toronto, CA

2017 Positions Berlin, Berlin, DE

2016 Art Miami, Miami, US

2016 Art Toronto, Toronto, CA

2015 Art Toronto,Toronto, CA

2014 Art Toronto, Toronto, CA

2011 Art Stage Singapore, SIngapore, SG

2010 Art Taipei, solo booth presentation for Galerie Caprice Horn, Taipei, CH

2010 Art HK 10, Hong Kong, HK   

2009 Art Singapore, Singapore, SG

2009 Scope Basel, Museum Presents “The New Empire” curated by Victoria Lu, CH

2009 Art Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HK

2009 Art Dubai, Dubai, AE

2009 Palm Beach 3, Florida, US

2008 Art Paris, Abu Dhabi, AE

2008 Art Singapore, SG

2008 KIAF Korea, Seoul, KR

2008 Photo Beijing, Beijing, CN

2008 Art HK, Hong Kong, HK

2008 CIRCA, San Juan, PR

2007 ArtSingapore, SG

2006 ArtSingapore, SG

2004 TIAF, Toronto, Toronto, CA

 

Select Bibliography

Matthew Carver, Fresh Paint Magazine, Issue 12, April & May 2016

Matthew Carver: Night of the World, Wall Street International, October, 2015

http://wsimag.com/art/17715-matthew-carver-night-of-the-world

Horne-Gaul, Laura An Interview with Matthew Carver, Tussle Magazine, July 2014

http://www.tusslemagazine.com/#!matthew-carver/c1wrp

Borderviews. The Big Picture – Matthew Carver, Border Crossings, September October November 2013

Reid, Robert.  From Civil Disobedience To The Domestic and Mundane – Matthew Carver: Polizei, 

Addad Hannah: The Russians, Waterloo Region Record, November 17, 2012

Aggerholm, Barbara. Inspired by the World, Grand Magazine, January 2012

Ahrar, Yassine. La XIIème biennale du Caire: La diversité de tout et chaque chose possible

Arts du Maroc, April 2011

Lammerich, Yvonne. The Cairo Biennale: Political Prescience, Canadian Art online, March 10, 2011

Renzetti, Elizabeth. Canadian artist’s riot-police paintings trapped in Cairo Bedlam, The Globe and Mail, February 1, 2011

Townsend, Melanie. Matthew Carver, RBC Canadian Painting Competition Ten Years, 2008

Carte Blanche v.2: Painting, The Magenta Foundation, Canada, 2008.

Fairley, Gina. Light, Illusion, Speed, Asian Art News, July/August 2007

Lenzi, Iola. Matthew Carver, Time Out Singapore, March 7, 2007

Temple, Kevin. Shiny, happy objects, Now Magazine, June 3, 2004

Dault, Gary Michael. Gallery Going

The Globe and Mail, July 21, 2001

The Globe and Mail, August 26, 2000

The Globe and Mail, March 18, 2000

The Globe and Mail, September 18, 1999

The Globe and Mail, June 5, 1999

to C’, C International Contemporary Art, Issue #70, Summer 2001

Fast Forward, Canadian Art, Volume 18, Number 2, Summer 2001

Anto, Siobhan. Cappuccino, Writing Art, An OCAD Journal of Critical Art Writing, 2000

Hirschmann, Thomas. The peep technique, At the Galleries. National Post, September 2, 2000

Jordan, Betty Ann. Elusive Art, Where Toronto, September 2000

MacKay, Gillian. Gallery Going, The Globe and Mail, November 6, 1999

Hanna, Deirdre. Highly Recommended, Now Magazine, October 15, 1998

 

Artist Residencies:

Taksu Artist Residency, March & April 2009, TARP, Kuala Lumpur

Taksu Artist Residency, October 2006 – February 2007, Taksu Singapore & TARP, Kuala Lumpur

Thematic Residency for Media & Visual Arts, October 22 – December 7, 2001, The Banff Centre for the Arts

 

Collections

Canadian Art Collection, RBC Financial Group

Museum London, Canada

Ontario Securities Commission

Saatchi Collection, London, U.K.

The Samawi Collection, Dubai

Taittinger Collection, Switzerland

Many Private Collections