Born 1981, lives in New York City
EDUCATION
2005-2007 New York Academy of Art, New York, NY M.F.A
2002-2005 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL B.F.A
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2017 Visiting Artist, The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2015 Visiting Artist, 8 to Create, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana
2015 Visiting Artist, St. Francis, University, Ft. Wayne, IN
2014 Visiting Artist, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2014 Visiting Artist, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
2014 Visiting Artist, Adelphi University, Long Island, NY
2014 Guest Lecturer, Lill Street Art Centre, Chicago, IL
2014 Visiting Artist, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2014 Visiting Artist, The Prodigy Program, The Chicago Academy for the Arts, Chicago, IL
2012 Visiting Artist, TICA PRogram, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2012 Visiting Artist, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
2011 Visiting Artist, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY
HONORS AND AWARDS
2021 The Pollock-Krasner Mid-Career Artist in Residence, The Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2017 Audubon Mural Project, The Audubon Society, New York, NY
2011 CAAP Award, City of Chicago Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
2010 Davis Anderson and Marshall Frankel Foundation Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2009 Rochester Art Club/Arena Group Award, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
2007 Joan Brady Travel Grant, New York Academy of Art, NYC, NY
2007 New York Academy of Art Commencement Speaker, NYC, NY
2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation Nominee, NYC, NY
SOLO EXHIBITION
2021 On Longing, Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX
2021 Friction Fit, Citispire Studio, New York, NY
2017 Take Care of Yourself, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
2014 It Ended With My Putting it On, The Comfort Station, Chicago, IL
2014 Could Almost Feel it in My Hands Like an Egg of Air in the Water, Purdue University, Indiana
2013 The Forgiveness Beneath the Mountain or Sleep, Repose and Duration in the Broken Hearted Year, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
2012 View From the Birth Day, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2012 A Note on Assembly/Glory, The University Club, Chicago, Chicago, IL
2012 A Proud and Soaring Thing, The R. Duffy Larson Gallery, Broward College, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2011 The Tremendous Alone, The Elmhurst Museum of Art, Elmhurst, IL
2011 A Loss Like the Rome of Waiting, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 Or to Append the Cancelled Lyrics, The Union League Club, Chicago, IL
2010 Not Again,The Old Men With Beautiful Manners, Linda Warren Gallery, Project Space, Chicago, IL
2010 Bare Ruined Choirs, Gallery in the Library, Barrington Hills, IL
2010 Bent Gathering the Boney Apples, Indianapolis Art Center, IN
GROUP EXHIBITION
2022 MaterPolis, the Moss Art Center, University of Virginia, VA
2018 artBangall, with Survey Survey Bangall, NY
2018 We May Perhaps Remain Here, at Project Q, with Gitler&, NY, NY
2017 Great Lakes Drawing Biennial, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
2016 Fragmorphia, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Roots, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
2015 The Midwest Drawing Invitational, St. Francis University, Ft. Wayne, IN
2014 Works on Paper from the Collection of Ralph Privoznik, Purdue University, IN
2014 On Big Drawings, A and D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2014 Art Expo, with Linda Warren Projects
2013 La Lumière Fantastique, Maryland Institute and College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2013 Art Southampton, with The New York Academy of Art, NY
2013 Urban Fuse, Janine Bean Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2012 Drawing to Conclusions, The Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
2011 Iconomancy, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY
2011 Ways of Making: Works on Paper, Governors State College, Chicago, IL
2011 125 Years, The Union League Club, Chicago, IL
2011 Next Fair, With Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 Contained, Boston Center of the Arts, Boston, MA
2010 Art Loop Open, A Chicago Artist Coalition Project, Block 37, Chicago, IL
2010 What is the Where?, Recession Art Project, Invisible Dog Gallery, New York, NY
2010 With/drawn, The Drawing Room, Budapest, Hungary
2010 Space/Place, 39th Street Gallery, Washington D.C
2010 KY7 Biennale, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
2010 Eye of the Beholder, Maryland Federation of the Art, Annapolis, MD
2010 Art Chicago, With Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 Dis.place.ment, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2010 Selections from the INDA 5, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2009 62nd Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
2009 Art Chicago, With Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Somewhere Elsewhere, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Weekend Fling Series, All Rise Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Introductions 4, Irvine Contemporary, Washington D.C
2008 Paper New England II, The Bushnell, Hartford, CT
2007 Viewing Registry, The Drawing Center of New York, New York, NY
2007 Summer Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2007 CAA Exhibition, Hunter College, New York, NY
2006 Place as Object Figure and Landscape, Janes Gallery, St. Barths
2004 Doppelganger, Johnsonese Gallery, Chicago, IL
COLLECTIONS
The Ritz-Carlton Residencies, Chicago, IL
Purdue University, West lafayette, IN
The Elmhurst Museum of Art, Elmhurst, IL
The Eden Rock Hotel, St Barthelemy
St. Francis University, Ft. Wayne, IN
The City of Urbana, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 Bohrer, Ashley, The Commodified Built Environment, Red Wedge, August
2015 Derrick, Andy, Friday Feature, Matthew Woodward, ArtSquare, December
2015 Hartigan, Phillip, Seeing the Art For the Trees, Hyperallergic, August
2015 Daignault, Kristina, With Matthew Woodward, Inside the Artists’ Kitchen, May
2014 Hartigan, Phillip A, Expo Chicago Fails to Inspire, Hyperallergic, October,
2014 Obaro, Tomi, What I’m Doing This Weekend, Matthew Woodward, Chicago Magazine, October
2014 Juarez, Frank Art365, Matthew Woodward, May
2014 Hildwine, Jeriah, Matthew Woodward, Review, ArtPulse Magazine, April
2013 Hall, Sarah Elise, Art-Rated, Matthew Woodward, Interview, November
2013 Klein, Paul, Art Letter, The Huffington Post, October
2013 Sherman, Whitney, Playing With Sketches, Rockport Publishing, October
2012 Meuller, Rachel, Meticulous Chaos, Be Nice Art Friends, July
2012 Taskaporan, Erol, Matthew Woodward, Interview, Neo Collective, July
2012 Gumbs, Melissa, View From the Birth Day at the Chicago Cultural Center, Examiner, July
2012 Amir, Matthew Woodward’s Decaying Drawings, Beautiful/Decay, May
2012 Dluzen, Robin, Catalogs of Anonymous Forms, Chicago Art Magazine, April
2012 Debat, Don, Unveiling the Unique, Chicago Sun Times, March
2012 Mutts, Lost at E Minor, New Art, January
2011 Vora, Manish, Iconomancy: The Magic of Art, Art Log, November
2011 Pocaro, Alan, Keeping Your Balance in the Windy City, Art Critical, October
2011 Hausslein ,Allison, Fanmail, Dailyserving, November
2011 Marszalek, Norbert, One Question, Neotericart, October
2011 New American Paintings, Number 95, Midwest Edition, June
2011 Cook, Greg, Contained at BCA, The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, April
2011 James, Damian, More Than a Whisper in the Ear, Bad at Sports, January
2010 Blau, Lilly, Love and Real Estate, The Huffington Post, November
2010 Himebauch, Adam, Matthew Woodward, Veoba Magazine, November
2010 Pitts, Johnathan, Look What They Found, Baltimore Sun, July
2010 Duquette, Laura, Featured Artist, Artery Magazine, May
2010 Duquette, Laura, How WNY Has Influenced His Work, Buffalo Rising Magazine, May
2010 Pocaro, Alan, Selections From the INDA 5, Aeqai, April
2010 Franz, Jason, International Drawing Annual 5, Manifest Gallery, March
2010 Solamo Tony, Barrington Hills Courier-Review, January
2010 Barber, John, Medium Magazine, Outside Infinity, February
2010 Avedesian, Alexi, Vellum Magazine, Spirits, January
2009 Reed, Marliana, Invisible City Magazine, Issue 6, November
2009 Lacy, Rebecca, MuseMemo Magazine, Hauntingly Beautiful, October
2009 Abram, A, Spillspace Magazine, All the Wild Horses, September
2009 Kohn, Iliana, Lost At E Minor Magazine, Issue 244, 245, August
2009 Tremblay, Brenda, Finger-Lakes Explores Connections, Mysteries, WXXI, P.R, August
2009 Low, Stuart, Drawing Together Man and Nature, Democrat and Chronicle, August
2009 Wheeler, Dan, Upstate Artists Exhibit in Exclusive MAG Show, MPN Now, July
2009 Rafferty, Rebecca, The Elephant in the Room, City Newspaper, July
2008 O’Sullivan, Michael, Modern or Retro? Lets Call it a Draw. The Washington Post, August
2007 Ex Arte Equinus Magazine, TX, August
2004 Poetry Center of Chicago, Broadside Editions, January
RESIDENCIES
2021 The Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2016 Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY
2013 Urbanfuse Residency, Berlin, Germany
2013 SLAC Residency, Chicago, IL
2012 The Cill Rialaig Project, County Kerry, Ireland
2011 L’Art dans les Cités, The Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program, MICA, Lehon, France
2010 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2008 The Catwalk Program, Hudson, NY