Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
EDUCATION:
MFA - UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. 2008
BFA - Cooper Union, New York, NY, 2004.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
'Water & Polaroid', Highlight Gallery, San Francisco, CA. April 4-May 18, 2013
'Lakes, Trees and Honeybees', Yossi Milo Gallery, NY, NY. May 24 – June 30, 2012
'Two Ships Passing' M+B, Los Angeles, CA. September 16 – October 29, 2011
'Chocolate, bees, dust, sperm, and sprinkles' Cardwell Jimmerson Gallery, Culver City CA. April 18 - May 23, 2009
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
'The Black Mirror', Diane Rosenstein Fine Arts, Los Angeles CA. January 19-March 9, 2013
'After Image', Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos CA. November 5-December 13, 2012
Mallocra Landings, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. 'Group Show New Phtotography in Palma'. June 1 – June 24, 2012
The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, CA. 'Surface Tension'. May 5 – July 1, 2012
See Line Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 'MOTA'. May 17-July 31, 2012
Higher Pictures, NY, NY. 'Photography Is'. April 12- May 26, 2012
Invisible Exports, NY, NY. 'The Crystal Chain', March 30 – May 6, 2012
Churner and Churner, NY, NY. 'Every Photo Graph Is Invisible', June 23, 2011 – August 12, 2011
Hendershot Gallery, NY, NY. 'Of Memory and Time', June 9, 2011 – August 27, 2011
Fred Torres Collaborations, NY, NY. Assembly : Eight Emerging Photographers, March 15 – April 9, 2011
M+B, Los Angeles, CA. Bed Time for Bonzo, December 11-January 29, 2010
Cardwell Jimmerson Gallery, Culver City, CA. Genre Studies, November 13-December 18, 2010
Arts Benicia, Benicia CA. 'Edges of Light', October 2 – November 6, 2010
Fotofest 2010 Biennial, Houston TX. 'Assembly: Eight Emerging Photographers from Southern California', LACMA curated, March 12 – April 25, 2010
Piladelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia PA. '.matrix', March 2-May 15, 2010
Pitzer Art Galleries, Claremont, CA. 'Capitalism In Question (Because It Is)' January 28-March 19,2010
Gatov Galleries, California State University, Long Beach 'Shock and Awe' November 2009
533 Gallery, Los Angeles CA. 'Chef's Theory' June 6, 2009-June 28, 2009
Torrance Art Museum 2008 Torrance Jurried Art Exhibition November 15-December 13, 2008
Cardwell Jimmerson Gallery, Culver City CA. 'Some Young LA Artists' September 6-October 4, 2008
Wight Gallery (UCLA Broad Art Center) 'Laboratory', UCLA Thesis exhibition April 17th-24th, 2008
Apexart, NY, NY 'The Most Curatorial Biennial of the universe' July 7- August 11,2007.
Cooper Union Art Action of the ‘Peter Coopers’, New York, NY, 2005.
Cooper Union Thesis exhibition, New York, NY, June 2004.
Gallery Eight Two Five, Ryman-Carroll Foundation group exhibition Beverly Hills, CA, September 2001.
Schombury Gallery group exhibition, Santa Monica, CA, August 2001.
Emerging Young Artist Fund and Scholarship. Exhibition of paintings at Colburn Performing Art Centers, June 2000.
Barnsdale Gallery group exhibition, 'Pro and Protégés', Los Angeles, CA, 1999.
CURATED EXHIBITIONS:
CardwellJimmerson gallery, Culver City CA. 'A about bauhaus...harm neu tues', March 27-April 17,2010
COLLECTIONS:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
The Columbus museum of Art, OH
Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA.
Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati OH.
Sir Elton John Collection, London, UK
The Wieland Collection, Atlanta, GA
Royal Danish Library, National of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Forbes | “Top 30 Under 30 in Art & Design,” List Compiled by Jeffrey Deitch and Chuck Close | January 16, 2012
Modern Painters | “Review: Matthew Brandt at M+B,” by Travis Diehl | December 2011 / January 2012 Issue
Modern Painters | “The 100 Best Fall Shows: Matthew Brandt at M+B” | September 2011
LA Weekly | “Best Art I Saw all Week: Matthew Brandt’s Electric Photographs in ‘Two Ships Massing’ at M+B: Don’t Touch or You’ll Get shocked,” by Carol Cheh | September 28, 2011
The New Yorker | “Goings on about Town: Art” | August 2, 2011
'Contemporary U.S. Photography', Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2010
Capitalism in Question (Because It Is) Pitzer College, 2010
Inland Empire Weekly, 'Really Want the Red Pill', Feb. 2010
Art ltd. 'Review of Chocolate, bees, dust, sperm & sprinkles at CardwellJimmerson', July/August 2009
Octopus, volume 4, 'Surface Tension: Matthew Brandt's Lakes and reservoirs 2', Fall 2008