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
Visiting Artist, St. Francis, University, Ft. Wayne, IN
2014 – Visiting Artist, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Visiting Artist, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist, Adelphi University, Long Island, NY
Guest Lecturer, Lill Street Art Centre, Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
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
Visiting Artist, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
2011 – Visiting Artist, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY

HONORS AND AWARDS

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
New York Academy of Art Commencement Speaker, NYC, NY
Joan Mitchell Foundation Nominee, NYC, NY

SOLO EXHIBITION

2017 – Take Care of Yourself, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
2014 – It Ended With My Putting it On, The Comfort Station, Chicago, IL
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
A Note on Assembly/Glory, The University Club, Chicago, Chicago, IL
A Proud and Soaring Thing, The Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery, Broward College, Ft.
Lauderdale, FL
2011 – The Tremendous Alone, The Elmhurst Museum of Art, Elmhurst, IL
A Loss Like the Rome of Waiting, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
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
Bare Ruined Choirs, Gallery in the Library, Barrington Hills, IL
Bent Gathering the Boney Apples, Indianapolis Art Center, IN

GROUP EXHIBITION

2016 – Fragmorphia, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2015 – Roots, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
The Midwest Drawing Invitational, St. Francis University, Ft. Wayne, IN
2014 – Works on Paper from the Collection of Ralph Privoznik, Purdue University, IN
On Big Drawings, A and D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Art Expo, with Linda Warren Projects
2013 – La Lumière Fantastique, Maryland Institute and College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Art Southampton, with The New York Academy of Art, NY
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
Ways of Making: Works on Paper, Governors State College, Chicago, IL
125 Years, The Union League Club, Chicago, IL
Next Fair, With Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Contained, Boston Center of the Arts, Boston, MA
2010 – Art Loop Open, A Chicago Artist Coalition Project, Block 37, Chicago, IL
What is the Where?, Recession Art Project, Invisible Dog Gallery, New York, NY
With/drawn, The Drawing Room, Budapest, Hungary
Space/Place, 39th Street Gallery, Washington D.C
KY7 Biennale, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
Eye of the Beholder, Maryland Federation of the Art, Annapolis, MD
Art Chicago, With Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Dis.place.ment, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
Selections from the INDA 5, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2009 – 62nd Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Art Chicago, With Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 – Somewhere Elsewhere, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Weekend Fling Series, All Rise Gallery, Chicago, IL
Introductions 4, Irvine Contemporary, Washington D.C
Paper New England II, The Bushnell, Hartford, CT
2007 – Viewing Registry, The Drawing Center of New York, New York, NY
Summer Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
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 Collection of Ralph Privoznik, Lafayette, IN
– 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
Hartigan, Phillip, Seeing the Art For the Trees, Hyperallergic, August
Daignault, Kristina, With Matthew Woodward, Inside the Artists’ Kitchen, May
2014 – Hartigan, Phillip A, Expo Chicago Fails to Inspire, Hyperallergic, October,
Obaro, Tomi, What I’m Doing This Weekend, Matthew Woodward, Chicago Magazine, October
Juarez, Frank Art365, Matthew Woodward, May
Hildwine, Jeriah, Matthew Woodward, Review, ArtPulse Magazine, April
2013 – Hall, Sarah Elise, Art-Rated, Matthew Woodward, Interview, November
Klein, Paul, Art Letter, The Huffington Post, October
Sherman, Whitney, Playing With Sketches, Rockport Publishing, October
2012 – Meuller, Rachel, Meticulous Chaos, Be Nice Art Friends, July
Taskaporan, Erol, Matthew Woodward, Interview, Neo Collective, July
Gumbs, Melissa, View From the Birth Day at the Chicago Cultural Center, Examiner, July
Amir, Matthew Woodward’s Decaying Drawings, Beautiful/Decay, May
Dluzen, Robin, Catalogs of Anonymous Forms, Chicago Art Magazine, April
Debat, Don, Unveiling the Unique, Chicago Sun Times, March
Mutts, Lost at E Minor, New Art, January
2011 – Vora, Manish, Iconomancy: The Magic of Art, Art Log, November
Pocaro, Alan, Keeping Your Balance in the Windy City, Art Critical, October
Hausslein ,Allison, Fanmail, Dailyserving, November
Marszalek, Norbert, One Question, Neotericart, October
New American Paintings, Number 95, Midwest Edition, June
Cook, Greg, Contained at BCA, The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, April
James, Damian, More Than a Whisper in the Ear, Bad at Sports, January
2010 – Blau, Lilly, Love and Real Estate, The Huffington Post, November
Himebauch, Adam, Matthew Woodward, Veoba Magazine, November
Pitts, Johnathan, Look What They Found, Baltimore Sun, July
Duquette, Laura, Featured Artist, Artery Magazine, May
Duquette, Laura, How WNY Has Influenced His Work, Buffalo Rising Magazine, May
Pocaro, Alan, Selections From the INDA 5, Aeqai, April
Franz, Jason, International Drawing Annual 5, Manifest Gallery, March
Solamo Tony, Barrington Hills Courier-Review, January
Barber, John, Medium Magazine, Outside Infinity, February
Avedesian, Alexi, Vellum Magazine, Spirits, January
2009 – Reed, Marliana, Invisible City Magazine, Issue 6, November
Lacy, Rebecca, MuseMemo Magazine, Hauntingly Beautiful, October
Abram, A, Spillspace Magazine, All the Wild Horses, September
Kohn, Iliana, Lost At E Minor Magazine, Issue 244, 245, August
Tremblay, Brenda, Finger-Lakes Explores Connections, Mysteries, WXXI, P.R, August
Low, Stuart, Drawing Together Man and Nature, Democrat and Chronicle, August
Wheeler, Dan, Upstate Artists Exhibit in Exclusive MAG Show, MPN Now, July
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, Augus

2007 – Ex Arte Equinus Magazine, TX, August
2004 – Poetry Center of Chicago, Broadside Editions, January

RESIDENCIES

2016 – Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY
2013 – Urbanfuse Residency, Berlin, Germany
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

In his new works, Matthew Woodward continues his exploration of drawing and its boundaries, pushing his work further into ideas central to architecture and the built-environment at large: transparency, differentiation and repeatability, the artificial and the monumental; each called to attention through a material dexterity that is as illuminating in Woodward’s work as it is compromised.

By tapping into a catalogue of architectural emblems and sources that evokes colonialism, Nationalism and a long tradition of historical amnesia —which seems, especially of late, to have rounded back on itself to revive a hollow endorsement of empire— Woodward pursues issues of identity latent in our built-environment, like a dream lost in our bodies.

And it is here that Woodward’s work approaches a paradox: we are free to reject or reprogram our cultural iconography, and we may rehab the forces that have shaped our national discourse. But they are, nonetheless, the only means we have to constructing a national identity. And while tearing out those forces necessitates tearing out something from ourselves, they are not so far out of reach that we cannot. And indeed, we shall, all the way out and down to the cultural bedrock that provides an innate intelligibility to our very selfhood.