Matthew Benedict
| Matthew Benedict | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1968 (age 55–56) Rockville, Connecticut |
| 🏡 Residence | Brooklyn, New York |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🏫 Education | School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Eugene Lang College |
| 💼 Occupation | |
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Matthew Benedict (born 1968) is an American artist based in Brooklyn. Originally from Rockville, Connecticut, Benedict studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the The New School in New York. He has exhibited his work in New York since 1993 and is the recipient of awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Penny McCall Foundation. His work is represented in several permanent museum collections including the Dallas Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Work and Career[edit]
Since 1989, Benedict has worked in a variety of mediums, which include sculptures assembled from found objects, painting, photography, and embroideries. Throughout his career, Benedict has explored a variety of subjects and allusions in mythology, literature, and history, including the Hindenburg Disaster, Moby Dick, and religious and Masonic rituals.[1][2] His paintings employ trompe l'oeil techniques and are reminiscent of early 20th-century adventure story illustration. Writing for Artforum, Nayland Blake, describes Benedict’s work as that which “look like odd finds from a Cape Cod antique shop stocked with ephemera from the period between…the Civil War and World War I, an era marked by a Yankee faith in progress crossed with an obsession with the supernatural, a time of textile mills and spirit mediums…Benedict’s work savors this moment of lost innocence while questioning the extent to which we can ever truly understand the past we venerate.”[3]
Benedict's photographic work, which was subject to the 2010 exhibition Dramatis Personae at Alexander and Bonin in New York, underscores many of the concepts and motifs which run through his wider oeuvre.[4] Developed both as drawing aids for his painting and self-contained works, his photographs mix traditional photographic aesthetics with a contemporary cast of characters and poses to explore engagements with the past through mythological or literary references.[5]
Benedict was noted as one of the twenty-five most collectible midcareer artists by Art+Auction Magazine in 2015.[6] His commissioned works include a mural for the Smyth Hotel in the TriBeCa neighborhood of Manhattan,[7] and set design for Basil Twist's 2005 production of La bella dormente nel bosco.
Selected exhibitions[edit]
Selected solo exhibitions[edit]
- 2017: The Sea Cook, Alexander and Bonin, New York
- 2016: Based on a True Story, Stene Projects, Stockholm
- 2014: The Lost Island, Mai36 Galerie, Zürich
- 2013: Americana, Alexander and Bonin, New York
- 2011: Under the Red Eclipse, Galeria Álvaro Alcázar, Madrid
- 2010: Dramatis Personae, Alexander and Bonin, New York
- 2008: The Mage’s Pantry, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Kunsthalle Barmen
- 2002: The Unseen World, Mai36 Galerie, Zürich
- 1998: The Magus and other tales, Alexander and Bonin, New York
- 1996: Salvation, Statements at Basel 27 (presented by Mai 36 Galerie)
- 1995: The Brotherhood, Brooke Alexander, New York
- 1995: Matthew Benedict, Janice Guy, New York
- 1993: Saints, Project for the windows of the Grey Art Gallery, New York University
Selected group exhibitions[edit]
- 2011: The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part II, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC
- 2009: Moby Dick, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
- 2009: Chelsea Visits Havana, 10th Havana Biennial, Museo Nacional de Bella Artes
- 2004: Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum
- 2001-2002: My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Des Moines Art Center; Brooklyn Museum; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Tampa Museum of Art; Chicago Cultural Center; Akron Art Museum; Norton Museum of Art; Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA; Huntsville Museum of Art
- 2000: Remnants of Memory, Asheville Art Museum, NC
- 1997: Hanging by a Thread, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
- 1994: Stonewall 25, White Columns, New York
Awards and Residencies[edit]
- 2012: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance Grant
- 2011: Versailles/Giverny Foundation, Giverny
- 1997: The Penny McCall Foundation Grant
- 1994: Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
Collections[edit]
- FRAC de Picardie, Amiens
- Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
- Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
- California State University, Los Angeles
- Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- The New York Public Library
- Portland Art Museum, Oregon
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
- NASA Art Program, Washington, DC
- Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
- Ulrich Museum, Wichita, Kansas
- Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Bibliography[edit]
- Moby Dick, ex. cat. CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco 2010 ISBN 978-0-9802-0552-7 Search this book on .
- Matthew Benedict: Haunted, ex. cat. Madrid: Galería Álvaro Alcázar
- Zybok, Oliver, ed. Matthew Benedict: The Mage’s Pantry. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz 2008 ISBN 978-3-7757-2107-3 Search this book on .
- Open House: Working in Brooklyn, ex. cat. Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Museum, 2004 ISBN 978-0-8727-3150-9 Search this book on .
References[edit]
- ↑ Glueck, Grace. "ART IN REVIEW; Matthew Benedict". Retrieved 2018-06-26.
- ↑ "CCA Wattis Presents the Exhibition *Moby-Dick* | California College of the Arts". www.cca.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-23.
- ↑ Blake, Nayland (March 2001). "Shroud of Truro: The Art of Matthew Benedict". Artforum. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
- ↑ Hall, Emily (March 2011). "Emily Hall on Matthew Benedict". Artforum.
- ↑ Beyer, Charles (2008). "Ghost Ships, Sea Monsters, Sea Dogs, and Other Sailors". In Zybok, Oliver. The Mage's Pantry. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. pp. 21–23. ISBN 9783775721073. Search this book on
- ↑ "25 Most Collectible Midcareer Artists: Matthew Benedict | Artinfo". Artinfo. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
- ↑ "New York's Smyth Hotel Gets An Update From Gachot Studios | Architectural Digest". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
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