Upcoming Exhibitions
Eyeo 2022: How We Survived
A conversation about alternative ways to practice that people found during the pandemic with Agyei Archer, Pinar Demirdag and Matt Kenyon. Moderated by Jer Thorp.
WOLF AT THE DOOR: HOUSING, OIL, GAS AND GUNS
| Matt Kenyon at Eyeo 2022 |
Matt talks about Wolf at the Door, a collection of Kenyon's recent works, many of which reflect upon and critique the language of market forces, and the way banks and corporations leave individual human experience out of the metaphors they use.
Wolf at the Door asks what euphemisms like a debt waterfall, an untapped resource, or a key investment would look like if they reflected the human stories they have unleashed. These works function as centerpieces for a series of long-term community centered conversations about how we got into this situation and what, if anything, we are willing to learn.
In 2023, I was invited by the 4D department to give a talk at Cranbrook Academy of Art.
My work will be featured in OIL. Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age at the The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, September 4 2021
The exhibition Oil. Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age therefore takes a speculative, poetic look back at the presence of the modern age of petroleum, which has lasted for roughly one hundred years. From the distance of a hypothetical future, we ask what was typical of our time, what was great and beautiful, what was ugly and terrible, and how all this is reflected in art and culture.
My work will be featured in the WRO Biennale 2021: REVERSO May 2021.
The WRO Media Art Biennale is the major forum for new media art in Poland, and one of the leading international art events in Central Europe. Since its inception in 1989, WRO has been presenting art forms created using new media for artistic expression and communication, exploring current creative territories and building a critical perspective toward emerging issues in art, technology and society.
My work will be featured in Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. July 2021.
The Extraction Project is a global coalition of artists and creators — a multimedia, cross-borders art intervention investigating the extractive industry in all its forms.
My work will be featured in ILLUSION at Manifattura Tabacchi in Cagliar, Italy May 2021.My work will be featured in ILLUSION at Laboratorio Aperto in Modena, Italy September 2021.
Selected Exhibitions
The Dreams of our Fathers: Environment, Technology & Urban Landscapes, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University. January 18, 2024
The Sun Still Rises in Spite of Everything, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC. January 16 – April 7, 2024
404 International Festival of Art and Technology, Mexico City, MX.October 2023
Cloudburst, Baton Rouge Center for Contemporary Art, Baton Rouge, LA.July 2022.
Probably Just the Wind Death, Necropolitics & Transformation, Parallax Art Center, Portland, October 14 December 23, 2022. Aaron Gach, Curator.
Homing, two-person exhibition at Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY, Sept 2022.
Wolf at the Door, Undercurrent Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. May 2022.
OIL. Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, Curators: Alexander Klose (Berlin) and Benjamin Steininge (Berlin/Vienna)—and Andreas Beitin. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Museum. June 5 – September 26, 2021.
WRO Biennale 2021: REVERSO, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland, May 2021. Curator: Piotr Krajewski.
Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. July 7 - September 19 2021.
404 International Festival of Art and Technology, MediaDemic. Curators: Gina Valenti.
TED Countdown, TED Website (https://countdown.ted.com)
The Wolf at the Door. Big Orbit, Buffalo, NY. Curated by Megan Metté. Solo exhibition, 2020.
Post-Truth: Text as Discourse, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ. September 9-November 3 2020. Curator: Belinda Haikes.
Cancelled Due to COVID 19.
Heatsink, The Emily Davis Gallery, Akron, Ohio. Solo exhibition, September 2017.
Illusion, Science Gallery Venice at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, May 2020 – April 2020. Curator: Richard Wiseman.
Museum of Capitalism in NYC, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at Parsons School of Design. October 30-December 30, 2019. Curators: Timothy Furstnau and Andrea Steves.
404 International Festival of Art and Technology 16, University of Massachusetts Lowell, January 22 – March 5, 2019. Curators: Gina Valenti and Ellen Wetmore.
Illusion, Puke Ariki Museum, New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand,November 10, 2018 – March 5, 2019. Curator: Richard Wiseman.
Edge of Visibility, International Print Center, New York, NY, October 4–December 19, 2018. Curator: Susan Tallman in partnership with Art in Print.
HUSTLE, Science Gallery Lab, Detroit, MI, June 2018. Curator: Troy Livingston.
Illusion, Guangdong Science Centre, Guangzhou, China.Curator: Richard Wiseman.
Unfolded, University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY.
FAKE, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. March 28-June 3, 2018. Curator: Oron Catts.
Human+, The Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy. Curator: Cathrine Kramer.
Illusion. Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, Oregon. November2017. Curator: Richard Wiseman.
Human+, ArtScience Museum, Singapore, March 2017. Curators: Dr. Juliana Adelman; Dr. Rachel Armstrong; Dr. Michael John Gorman, Science Gallery; Dr. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College Dublin; Dr. Ross McManus, Trinity School of Medicine; Prof. Richard Reilly, Trinity College Dublin; Prof. Charles Spillane, National University Ireland Galway.
Illusion, Guangdong Science Centre, Guangzhou, China.Curator: Richard Wiseman.
EAT ME. Trapholt Museum, Kolding, Denmark. The Trapholt is the largest and most popular museum in Denmark outside of Copenhagen. September 2017-2018.
Human/Machine – Machine/Human, DIAS Digital Interactive Art Space,Copenhagen, Denmark, February 16, 2017 – April 5, 2017. Curator: Rasmus Vestergaard.
Illusion, Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ, Feb 2016. Curator: Richard Wiseman.
Secret, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Aug 2015. Curators: Tad Hirsch, Marie Redmond, Professor of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin; Julian Oliver, Artist and Critical Engineer.
Selected Talks
Artist talk, “Creative Interventions in Markets,” Penny Stamps School of Art and Design, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Artist talk, “The Ethics and Aesthetics of Accumulation and Waste,” Sponsored by the School of Art + Design Visitors Committee and Critical Technology Studies Lab, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL.
Artist talk, The Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces, Brown University, Providence, RI.
Gallery talk, “Microcalligraphy through History,” The International Print Center, New York, NY. With Freyda Spira (Associate Curator, Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) and David Wachtel (independent scholar).
Gallery talk. “Matt Kenyon on Harun Farocki.” The Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston, Boston, MA.
Artist talk, Department of Art, The University at Buffalo, Buffalo NY.
Artist talk, Department of Art and Art History, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
Art and Science: Are We There Yet? Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. A panel discussion with Andrea Bandelli, Evelina Domnitch, Linda Doyle, Robert Devcic and chaired by Lynn Scarff. Followed by State of the Art, exploring fourteen objects, artworks and big ideas asking big questions of the art and science community with Matt Kenyon, Angelica Dass, Elaine Hoey, Ross Goodwin, Helen Pynor and Aoife McLysaght. February 9 2018.
Artist talk, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, OH. This talk was part of my Myers Residency, supported by the Knight Foundation, and also supported by my Biomimicry residency at The University of Akron Biomimicry Research and Innovation Center (BRIC).
Keynote, Ctrl+Z Festival, Complejo Cultural Atlas, Rosario, Argentina.
Artist talk, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
Artist talk, Montclair State University Studio Art Program, Montclair, NJ.
Artist talk, Digital + Media, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
Artist talk, “Media, Arts, and Culture: Fueling War or Creating Peace?” Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Conversation, The Future of Online Privacy, Science Gallery, Trinity College,Dublin. Hosted by Jonathan McCrea from Newstalk’s Futureproof, and featuring artist Matt Kenyon, hacking scene insider Keren Elazari, and innovation expert Johnny Ryan, who are testing the limits of online security.
Artist talk, Department of Art, University of Nevada, Reno, NV.
Artist talk, “The Aesthetics of Accumulation and Waste,” The International conference, Philosophy of Art Today, organized by the Polytechnic Museum and the Art Foundation Moscow Biennale, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia.
Artist talk, “Artist, Hacker, or Scientist?” The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia. Organized for Polytech.Science.Art.Week. The Garage Museum is one of Moscow’s most prominent contemporary art centers, located in Gorky Park.
Artist presentation, “Art Now: Multimedia Art Center for the Arts,” Global Understanding Convention, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ.
Integrated Bioscience Seminar, University of Akron, Myers School of Art Akron, OH.
Artist talk, “Humor in Art,” Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington D.C.
Artist talk, Art Department, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.
iraqimemorial.org Panel Discussion, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York City, New York.
Artist talk,, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Artist talk, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
Visiting artist lecture, Myers School of Art, University of Akron Akron, OH
Visiting artist lecture, HUMlab, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Visiting artist lecture, Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
Visiting artist lecture, Virginia Commonwealth University, MATX (Media, Art, and Text) PhD Program, Richmond, VA.
Visiting artist lecture, KHOJ Studios, New Delhi, India.
Artist lecture, “Fire Sale,” MIC Toi Rerehiko Gallery, Auckland New Zealand.
Visiting artist lecture, Department of Digital Design, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
Visiting artist lecture, School of Design, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand.