Matthew C. Wilson
Education
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York, NY, US
MFA – Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY, US
BA – Art and Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, US
BA – English, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, US
Exhibitions / Screenings / Projects
2025 Interspecies Interfaces, EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne, CH (upcoming)
2024 As Messengers, collaboration with Emilia Tapprest, Allard Pierson, Amsterdam, NL
TIMELINE, as part of TIME: Celebrating 40 years WG-terrein, LAB111, Amsterdam, NL
2023 Owlet vision in blinding time – Part 1, screening, Le Labo at Cinéma Dynamo, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH
The Future is Open, Museum LAC - Lugano Arte e Cultura, curated by Giovanna Manzotti, Lugano, CH
Co-ecologies, Screening, Fabrica Research Centre, curated by Carlos Casas, Treviso, IT
Transitions, video art festival, Maastricht, NL
2022 Geological Evidences, solo exhibition, curated by Arkadiusz Półtorak, galeria SKALA, Poznań, PL
Walk&Talk Festival of Art, curated by Irene Campolmi, Jesse James, Sofia Carolina Botelho, and Luís Brum,
São Miguel, Azores, PT
In Matter. Tricky Metabolisms & Earthbound Materials, curated by Laura Leppert, Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE
Unearthing the Present, screening and panel discussion, HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
2021 Driving the Human, Radialsystem, Berlin, DE
Anthropogenic Markers, convened by Giulia Rispoli and Christoph Rosol, AWG, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and MPIWG,
Berlin DE/online at anthropocene-curriculum.org
Insectageddon, organized by Cecilia Vicuña, The High Line, New York, NY, US
2020 Geological Evidences Introduced by Charles Stankievech, curated by Edoardo Bonaspetti, Andrea Lissoni, Filipa Ramos,
Vdrome.org, online
Cinema of Worldmaking, curated by Adam Budak, Biennale Gherdëina, Val Gardena, Dolomites, IT
metakino #5: economy, programmed by Hannu Nuotio, Helsinki, FI (moved online)
frameless 26, curated by Karin Zwack, MUG / Einstein Kultur, Munich, DE (moved online)
Geo-grafismos, curated by Tatiana Istomina, Casa 49, San José, CR
The Last Day of Creation, curated by Anna Remešová and Martina Johnová, Hraničář Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, CZ
2019 The Institute of Cosmic Superimposition, curated by Pádraic E.Moore, V2Vingt, Brussels, BE
Drained Atlas, two person exhibition (with Oscar Santillan), puntWG, Amsterdam, NL
Video Power Premières, Lumière Cinema, Maastricht, NL
“Around the Fire” screening program, Once Upon a Town - Urban Storytelling Festival,
Initiated by Bureau Europa and curated by Marjolein van der Loo, Maastricht, NL
Eye Experimentals 2019, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Extraction: Liquid Flames of the Solid Core, curated by Àngels Miralda, GMK/Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb
Plateaux Festival, screening program, curated by Mateo Chacon-Pino, Richterswil, CH
After Nature screening program, curated by Gabriel Ruiz-Larrea, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, ES
Preface: An Excursion to Scientific Ghost-land, lecture, curated by Stuart Fallon, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
History Deletes Itself, curated by Edwin Carels, IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2018 Quantum Real / Prologue: Spectral Exchange, Two person exhibition (with Jol Thomson)
organized by Joasia Krysa and Lars Bang Larsen, Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool, UK
Nomadic Mountains, curated by Jean Bernard Koeman, SCHUNCK*, Heerlen, NL
Dissident Gardens, artist project curated by Maximin Lavoo, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
Park Life, curated by Tanja Baudoin, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, BR
2017 Mythscapes, Impakt 17: Haunted Machines & Wicked Problems, curated by Natalie Kane and Tobias Revell, Utrecht, NL
Materiality of the Invisible, Bureau Europa / Marres / Jan van Eyck, Maastricht, NL
Extreme states of Impossibility, part of Lands End Contemporary Art Festival, Last.Station, Gagliano del Capo, IT
Economia, performative lecture, Natlab, Eindhoven, NL
2016 Circluding & Other Fluid Exchanges, organized by Kym Ward and Fiona James, Jan van Eyck, Maastricht, NL
Natural/Unnatural, curated by Joonhyun Hwang/Keun Young Park, Gowanus Swim Society, Brooklyn, NY, US
‘0–‘5, skowhegan.watch, online
2015 Social Ecologies, curated by Greg Lindquist, The Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects, Brooklyn, NY, US
Telestrations, selected by Alex Sloane, presented by Gowanus Swim Society, Brooklyn, NY, US
Plants, Machines, Animals and Objects!, Sector 2337, Chicago, IL, US
2014 Whitney Independent Study Program Studio Exhibition, TEMP Art Space, New York, NY, US
In Response: Other Primary Structures, Jewish Museum, New York, NY, US
Fluid, curated by Janusz Jaworski, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY, US
Correspondance, organized by Patrick Kiley, Christin Ripley, and Lisa Hayes Williams, PS Hudson, Catskill, NY, US
Frames per second, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC, US
2013 Image Search, Court Square Gallery, Long Island City, NY, US
Video Vaudeville Presents, curated by Brian Zegeer for M23 Project Space, Miami, FL, US
MFA Thesis Exhibition, curated by Fionn Meade, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY, US
Live Archive, Crucible Building, Pittsburgh, PA, US
Magical Thinking, organized by James Case-Leal, Ali Harrington, Juliette Premmereur, and Dana Liss, Brooklyn, NY, US
hopeful?, curated by Laura Miller, Penthouse Gallery, Baltimore, MD, US
2012 End of Worlds, curated by Brian Zegeer, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY, US
8 Artists Making Sculpture, curated by Jamie Sterns, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts End of Course Exhibition, site specific, Alte Saline, Hallein, AT
Corso Aperto, site specific, Paolo Giovio Archeological Museum, curated by Andrea Lissoni/Annie Ratti, Como, IT
First-Year MFA Exhibition, curated by Anna Craycroft, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, US
Drawings Related to Performance, curated by Becky Kinder, juried by Carrie Springer, 92YTribeca, New York, NY, US
Videos by Matthew C. Wilson, juried by Carrie Springer, 92YTribeca, New York, NY, US
100% Byrdcliffe, BYRDCLIFFE Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, US
Outside Mediation, curated by Peter Moran/Robin Cameron, Green Hall Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, US
2011 Masters on Main Street Round 3, organized by Jessica Fitzgibbon, Catskill, NY, US
SkowheganPERFORMS, site specific performance, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, US
Tompkins Projects West: Works on Paper, Dan Graham, Los Angeles, CA, US
2010 SK10NY, organized by Jonathan Peck, Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY, US
SK10, curated by Santiago Forero, Skowhegan, ME, US
Idle Time/Busy Mind, NURTUREart Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US
Exposure, curated by NUDEwithaGOOSE, ICO Gallery, New York, NY, US
Materia, collaboration with Saul Melman, Cabinet Magazine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US
Portable Caves, curated by HKJB, Long Island City, NY, US
Residencies
2024 “Enter the Hyper-Scientific” Artist-in-Residence program, College of Humanities at
EPFL - The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, CH
Artist-in-Residence Fellowship with NIAS/KNAW (The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study/Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences), Amsterdam, NL
2023 Future Heritage, Joint IAS - Institute for Advanced Study/Allard Pierson Residency, Amsterdam, NL
InResidenceArtist Residency (with the support of PLÁKA/Porto City Council), School of Arts,
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, PT
2022 Panel on Planetary Thinking at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Giessen, DE
2021 Walk & Talk, São Miguel, Azores, PT
2019 Aalto Artist in Residence, Aalto University, Helsinki, FI
2018 Terra Summer Residency Fellowship, Terra Foundation, Giverny, FR
Artistic Research Residency, Tabakalera, San Sebastián, ES
2017 Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
2016 Rift Zones, IMPACT16, PACT Zollverein, Essen, DE
NEARCH residency, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
2015 Investigation on the Extreme Land, DEFAULT 15 organized by RAMDOM association, Gagliano del Capo, IT
2012 Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg/Hallein, AT
CSAV (Advanced Course in Visual Arts), Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, IT
2011 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Artist in Residence Program, Woodstock, NY, US
2010 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, US
2009 Summer Studio Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, US
Awards, Fellowships, and Recognition
2024 Artist Project Grant, Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, NL
Artist Project Grant, Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Artist Project Grant, Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, NL
International Presentation Grant, Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Driving the Human, Berlin, DE
2020 Werkbijdrage Bewezen Talent/Proven Talent Grant, Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, NL
Forecast Platform, Berlin, DE
Home Residency grant, Kone Foundation, Helsinki, FI
Visiting Researcher, Aalto University, Helsinki, FI
2018 Talbot Rice Projects, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2015 European Commission - NEARCH Fellowship; research and production support for a project bridging art and archaeology
2012 AAF Prize for Fine Arts, American Austrian Foundation
2011 Fisher Scholarship, Columbia University
Viar Tuit Fellowship, Columbia University
2008 Professional Development Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts
2006 Summa Cum Laude, NCSU
Completed English Honors Program, NCSU
Completed Da Vinci Scholar Program for dual majors, NCSU
2005 Friends of the Gallery Scholarship Award for International Study, NCSU College of Design
2003 Friends of the Gallery Scholarship Award for International Study, NCSU College of Design
2002 Alvin M. Fountain Scholarship (awarded to the most promising English major), NCSU
Curatorial Projects
2023 Overcoming the forms of the outer world, film screening program, Cineclube EA, Porto, PT
2018 Spectral Exchange, public program organizer, Tabakalera, Donostia - San Sebastián, ES
2013 Metaphysical Interventions, curator, Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, US
Visiting Artist Lecture Series, public program, co-organizer, Columbia University, New York, NY, US
2010 Materia, co-organizer, Cabinet Magazine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US
Writing
2023 A blacker box, Dossier 14: Co-creation with AI, The Hmm - Platform for internet cultures, thehmm.nl (upcoming)
2022 Throughlines course, anthropocene-curriculum.org
A Drift, anthropocene-curriculum.org
2021 “GHOST SHIP IN THE MACHINE: On the Emergence and Responsibility of the Cybernetic Film Director,“
Attraction Magazine, Helsinki, FI
2015 Social Ecologies, November Critics Page, edited by Greg Lindquist, The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY, US
HR notebook, Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee 2014, edited by Raimundas Malašauskas, Bern, CH
2014 Interspecies/specie communication, online artist project/portfolio, BOMB Magazine, New York, NY, US
i, exhibition publication for I scarcely have the right to use this ghostly verb, edited by
Maricruz Alarcón and Ilyn Wong, Parsons/The New School, New York, NY, US
2013 Shadow of a Doubt, Interventions Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 2, online, New York, NY, US
Publications
2022 Art and Climate Change, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Thames & Hudson, London, UK
2020 RESOLUTION issue 1: “Pictorial Thermodynamics,” conversation with Caroline A. Jones, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL
2016 Social Ecologies, exhibition catalog, edited by Greg Lindquist, The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY, US
2012 The Choice Is Yours, Mousse Publishing, Milan, IT
Teaching
2020-24 “F for Fact” MA core tutor, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL