Tony Matelli (°1971, Chicago, IL) is an American artist working predominantly in the field of sculpture. The artist frequently focuses on themes of time, ambivalence, banality, and wonder. In Matelli’s work the physical laws of objects are often reversed, upended or atomized, and with these deft manipulations of matter and gravity come profound reorientations in perspective and ultimately, states of being.
2019
Marlborough Contemporary, New York, USA (forthcoming)
Andréhn-Schiptjenko, ‘TONY MATELLI [solo-exhibition]’, Stockholm, Sweden
2018
Pilevneli Gallery, ‘Lapses’, Istanbul, Turkey
Real Estate Fine Art, ‘TONY MATELLI’, New York, USA
I hope all is well…, ‘500 Capp Street’, California, USA
2017
Marlborough Contemporary, ‘Past – Life’, London, United Kingdom
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, ‘Hera’, Connecticut, USA
2016
The State Hermitage Museum, ‘Realisms’, St. Petersburg, Russia
2015
Marlborough Chelsea, ‘Garden’, New York, USA
Marlborough Broome Street, ‘Garden’, New York, USA
2014
Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc., ‘Tony Matelli, Olaf Bruening, John Miller’, Moscow, Russia
The Davis Museum, Wellesley College, ‘Tony Matelli: New Gravity’, Massachusetts, USA
2013
Stephane Simoens Contemporary, ‘TONY MATELLI’, Knokke, Belgium
White Flag Projects, ‘Tony Matelli’, Missouri, USA
Bergen Kunstmuseum, ‘Tony Matelli – A HUMAN ECHO’, Bergen, Norway
Green Gallery, ‘Windows, Walls and Mirrors’, Wisconsin, USA
2012
Andréhn-Schiptjenko, ‘Echoes’, Stockholm, Sweden
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, ‘Tony Matelli – A HUMAN ECHO’,Aarhus, Denmark
Leo Koenig Inc., ‘Windows, Walls and Mirrors’, New York, USA
2011
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, ‘Falkenrot Prize 2011: Tony Matelli: Glass of Water’, Berlin, Germany
Selestat Bienniale, ‘Glass of Water’, Selestat, France
2010
Andrehn-Schiptjenko, ‘The Constant Now’, Stockholm, Sweden
Andrehn-Schiptjenko, ‘Tony Matelli: Mirror Paintings’, Stockholm, Sweden
Stephane Simoens Contemporary, ‘Mise en Abyme’, Knokke, Belgium
2009
Green Gallery, ‘Yesterday’, Wisconsin, USA
Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc., ‘The Idiot’, Moscow, Russia
Galerie Charlotte Moser, ‘Life and Times’, Geneva, Switzerland
Palais de Tokyo, ‘Abandon’, Paris, France
2008
Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc., ‘Survival’, Uppsala, Sweden
Uppsala Kunstmuseum, ‘Survival’, Moscow, Russia
Leo Koenig Inc., ‘The Old Me’, New York, USA
Stephane Simoens, ‘Self Portraits with Phillip Akkerman,’, Knokke, Belgium
2007
Leo Koenig Inc., ‘New Works’, New York, USA
2006
Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
Charlotte Moser Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2005
Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, ‘TONY MATELLI Solo Show’, Paris, France
Centre d’Arte Santa Monica, ‘Abandon’, Barcelona, Spain
2004
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Abandon’, Vienna, Austria
Kunstraum Dornbirn, ‘Fucked and The Oracle’, Dornbirn, Austria
2003
Institute of Visual Art Center (inova), ‘Alley Oop’, Wisconsin, USA
University of Alabama Visual Arts Gallery, ‘Tokyo Boogie’ Tears’, Alabama, USA
2002
Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, ‘TONY MATELLI Solo Show’, Paris, France
Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
Sperone Jr., Rome, Italy
Bailey Fine Art, Toronto, Canada
2001
Leo Koenig Inc., New York, USA
Art Dealers Invitational, Marseilles, France
2000
Sies+ Hoeke Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Ten in One Gallery, New York, USA
Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
Gallery du Triangle, Bordeaux, France
1999
University of Buffalo Art Gallery, ‘Abandon’, New York
Andrehn Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
Basilico Fine Arts, New York, USA
1997
Basilico Fine Arts, New York, USA
Ten in One Gallery, Illinoi, USA
1998
2019
National Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, ‘Reshaped Reality.50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture’, Taipei, Taiwan
La Boverie, ‘Reshaped Reality.50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture’, Liege, Belgium (forthcoming)
Jeffrey Deitch Projects, ‘People: Figurative Sculpture’, California, USA (forthcoming)
2018
St. Kongensgade 50, ‘[Entro’pi?] Curated by Lars Rahbek’, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ceysson & Bénétière, ‘Relics’, Paris, France
Grey Art Gallery, ‘Landscapes After Ruskin: Redefining The Sublime Curated by Joel Sternfeld’, New York, USA
Jeffrey Deitch Projects, ‘People: Figurative Sculpture’, New York, USA
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, ‘Objects Like Us’, Connecticut, USA
Shane Campbell Gallery, ‘This Is A Pipe: Realism And The Found Object In Contemporary Art’, Illinoi, USA
Kunsthal Rotterdam, ‘Reshaped Reality. 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture’, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Kunsthalle Tubingen, ‘Reshaped Reality. 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture’, Puttemberg, Germany
Heydar Aliyev Center, ‘Reshaped Reality. 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture’, Baku, Azerbaijan
2017
Onsite Gallery, OCAD University, ‘The Sunshine Eaters’, Toronto, Canada
Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, ‘Beyond Nature’, Paris, France
Smart Fine Arts, ‘What’s Up- The Americas’, London, United Kingdom
Museum Voorlinden, ‘de tussentijd (the meantime)’, Wassenaar, Netherlands
Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, ‘August Sun’, Georgia, USA
The Israel Museum, ‘No Place Like Home’, Jerusalem, Israel
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, ‘Reshaped Reality. 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture’, Ishøj, Denmark
National Gallery of Australia, ‘Reshaped Reality. 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture’,Parkes, Australia
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, ‘Just The Facts’, Wisconsin, USA
2016
Marlborough Chelsea, ‘SMS SOS’, New York, USA
The High Line, ‘Wanderlust’, New York, USA
10 Hanover, ‘Ancient Echo’, London, United Kingdom
Bill Brady Gallery, ‘Fountain of Youth’, Florida, USA
Flag Art Foundation, ‘Summer School’, New York, USA
Art Basel Miami Beach Public 2016, The Bass Museum of Art, ‘Ground Control’, Florida, USA
Van Buuren Museum, ‘Comme si de rien n’était (As If Nothing had Happened)’, Brussels, Belgium
Art Brussels, Sorry We Are Closed, ‘Green Doesn’t Sell’, Brussels, Belgium
The State Hermitage Museum, ‘Realisms’, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Watermill Center, New York, USA
Marlborough Contemporary, ‘So I turned myself to face me’, London, United Kingdom
Eric Firestone Gallery, ‘Fresh Cuts’, New York, USA
Fraenkel Gallery, ‘Home Improvements’, California, USA
Bubox, ‘Forever’, Kortrijk, Belgium
NCCA, ‘Mystifiers’, Moscow, Russia
Museo de Bellas Artes, ‘Reshaping Reality. 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture’, Bilbao, Spain
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, ‘Reshaping Reality. 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture’, A.C., Mexico
2015
MoMA PS1, ‘Greater New York’, New York, USA
The Moore Building, ‘Unrealism, Presented by Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch’, Florida, USA
Gary Tatintsian Gallery, ‘Mutated Reality’, Moscow, Russia
The Art Museum of the University of Kentucky, ‘Bottoms Up: A Sculpture Survey’, Kentucky, USA
Plutschow Gallery, ‘Brunch Over Troubled Water’, Zurich, Switzerland
LARM Galleri, ‘At the Crack of Dawn’, Copenhagen, Denmark
Galeria Marlborough, ‘Eagles II’, Madrid, Spain
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, ‘Seven Deadly Sins: LUST’, New York, USA
Synchrotron Radiation Center: Home of Aladdin, ‘Condensed Matter Community’, Wisconsin, USA
2014
Marlborough Broome Street, ‘Walk-ins Welcome’, New York, USA
Broadway Mall Association, ‘Broadway Morey Boogie’, New York, USA
Marlborough Chelsea and Marianne Bosky Gallery, ‘Another Look at Detroit Curated by Todd Levin,’, New York, USA
Monya Rowe Gallery, ‘Vintage Violence’, New York, USA
Galerie Ronaldo Anselmi, ‘About Sculpture #1’, Berlin, Germany
Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, ‘Baroque’, Stockholm, Sweden
2013
Marlborough Chelsea, ‘Double Hamburger Deluxe’, New York, USA
Contemporary Art Galleries, ‘UNCANNY’, Connecticut, USA
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, ‘Director’s Choice 7-9-13’, Aarhus, Denmark
The FLAG Art Foundation, ‘SOMETHING ABOUT A TREE’, New York, USA
Hyde Park Art Center, ‘A Study in Midwestern Appropriation’, Illinois, USA
Marlborough Broome Street, ‘Pizza Time!’, New York, USA
Green Gallery, ‘Beer Show’, Wisconsin, USA
Association pour la Diffusion International de l’Art Francais, ‘De leur Temps 4’, Paris, France
Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, ‘Quiet Works’, Pennsylvania, USA
El Segundo Museum of Art,, ‘Desire’, California, USA
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art
Park, ‘LOST (in LA), Flax (France Los Angeles Exchange)’, California, USA
Goethe Institut and Sint Lukas Gallery, ‘Cultural Freedom in Europe’, Brussels, Belgium
2012
Columbus College of Art and Design, ‘Simulacrum Curated by Michael Goodson’, Ohio, USA
Renwick Gallery, ‘He Is Transparent’, New York, USA
Anderson Gallery at VCU, ‘you, your sun and shadow Curated by Michael Jones McKean,’, Virginia, USA
2011
Leo Koenig Incy, ‘Dark Christmas’, New York, USA
Mitchell-Innes and Nash, ‘December Curated by Howie Chen’, New York, USA
Selestat Biennal, ‘Selestat Biennal Curated by Hans Dunser, Olivier Grasser, Sophie Kaplan,
Pierre-Olivier Rollin, and Otto Teichert’, Bas-Rhin, France
Musée Nissim de Camondo, ‘echos’, Paris, France
Donjon de Vez, ‘Small, Medium, Large Curated by Francis Breist and Susanne van Hagen’, Donjon, France
Paul Kasmin Gallery, ‘Pretty on the Inside Curated by Erik Parker and KAWS’, New York, USA
Galerie Loevenbruck, ‘Sculptures’, Paris, France
54th International Venice Biennale:
ILLUMInations, ‘Personal Structures Curated by Karlyn De Jongh and Sarah Gold’, Venice, Italy
White Flag Projects, ‘Impossible Vacation’, Missouri, USA
Le Frac des Pays de la Loire, ‘Fragmentations’, Carquefou, France
2010
Gian Enzo Sperone, ‘Hunters & Gatherers’, Sent, Switzerland
Galerie Charlotte Moser, ‘A vos papiers’, Geneva, Switzerland
LARMgalleri, ‘Transcending…’, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gering & Lopez, ‘Love in Vein’, New York, USA
Spencer Brownstone, ‘No Show’, New York, USA
Mudam Luxembourg, ‘Just Love Me’, Luxembourg,Luxembourg
The White Box, ‘The Wasteland’, New York, USA
Fine Art in Space, ‘Both Sides of the Pulaski Curated by Andrea Salerno’, New York, USA
Stephane Simoens, ‘Hyping the Real’, Knokke, Belgium
Kunsthalle Emden, ‘Realismus: Das Abenteurer der Wirklichdeit’, Emden, Germany
Musee d’art contemporain de Lyon, ‘N’importe Quoi’, Lyon, France
CAPC, ‘Back to the Future: Buy-Self’, Bordeaux, France
APEX Art, ‘Don’t Piss on Me and Tell Me It’s Raining’, New York, USA
Blind Sculpture Curated by Gelitin, ‘Greene Naftali’, New York, USA
2009
KunstMuseum, ‘Ferne Näehe’, Bonn, Germany
Yale School of Art, ‘Infinitesimal Eternity, Images Made in the Face of Spectacle’, Connecticut, USA
Vanmoerkerke Collection, ‘The Effect of Modern Art on Green Circles Curated by Anselm Franke’, Oostende, Belgium
Forest City Gallery, ‘Guided By Voices’, Ontario, Canada
Haunch of Venison, ‘The Figure and Dr Freud’, New York, USA
Palais de Tokyo, ‘Chasing Napoleon’, Paris, France
The Cultural Foundation, ‘Persona. Image. Time. Human Representation in Art: from Modernism to Present-day,’, Moscow, Russia
Taxter & Spengemann, ‘Nature en Kit’, Lausanne, Switzerland
MUDAC, ‘Time-Life’, New York, USA
State National Centre of Contemporary Art Moscow, ‘Another Mythology’, Moscow, Russia
2008
Max Lang, ‘Evolution’, New York, USA
Gary Tatintsian Gallery, ‘Bad Planet’, Moscow, Russia
la Suma de Todas, ‘Esculturismo’, Madrid, Spain
The FLAG Art Foundation, ‘Attention to Detail Curated by Chuck Close’, New York, USA
Gallerie LOYAL, ‘Faxination Curated by Bill Saylor’, Stockholm, Sweden
Stephane Simoens, ‘New Media’, Knokke, Belgium
Maribel Lopez Gallery, ‘Fuck You Human’, Berlin, Germany
2007
Grande Halle de la Villette, ‘Betes et Hommes’, Paris, France
Whitney Museum at Altria, ‘Undone’, New York, USA
The Cultural Foundation Ekaterina, ‘Movement, Evolution, Art’, Moscow, Russia
Galerie Charlotee Moser, ‘Stranger than Paradise Curated by Max Henry’, Geneva, Switzerland
Cheim & Read, ‘I AM AS YOU WILL BE: Skeletons in Art’, New York, USA
Allston Kirt Gallery, ‘Pull My Finger Curated by Joe Zane’, Massachusetts, USA
Georg-Kolbe-Museum, ‘The Power of the Physical – SCULPTURE TODAY!’, Berlin, Germany
CAC in Cincinnati, ‘Baroque Biology (with Alexis Rockman)’, Ohio, USA
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, ‘Still Life’, Dunedin, New Zealand
2006
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Arts,, ‘Hysteria Siberiana Curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler,’, Lisbon, Portugal
Palais de Tokyo, ARCO ’06, ‘Five Billion Years’, Paris, France
AFoundation, ‘The Furnace Curated by Goschka Macuga’, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Galerie Anne de Villepois, ‘Helter, Helter Curated by Max Henry’, Paris, France
MOMA, PS1, ‘Into Me, Out of Me Curated by Klaus Biesenbach’, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Contemporary Art Institute, New York, USA
Gary atintsian Gallery, ‘Create Your Own Museum’, Moscow, Russia
2005
Leo Koenig Inc., ‘Self Preservation Society’, New York, USA
Leo Koenig Inc., ‘Leaving Cockaigne’, New York, USA
Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, ‘It’ll Cost You… Curated by Beth Rudin DeWoddy’, New York, USA
Homage to H.C. Andersen, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, ‘Fairy Tales Forever’, Aarhus, Denmark
Hudson Valley Center For ContemporaryArt, ‘Figure It Out’, New York, USA
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, ‘The Altoids Collection’, Texas, USA
The Domus Artium 2, Centre of Contemporary Art of
Salamanca, ‘Baroque and Neo-Baroque. The Hell of the Beautiful’, Tasmania, Australia.
Gary Tatintsian Gallery, ‘We Can Do It!’, Moscow, Russia
2004
The Cleveland Museum of Art, ‘Needful Things: Recent Multiples’, Ohio, USA
Leo Koenig Inc., ‘Altered States’, New York, USA
Galerie Faurschou, ‘Making VIsible’, Copenhagen, Denmark
Die Zehn Gebote, Hygiene Museum, ‘The Ten Commandments’, Dresden, Germany
Cheim & Reid Gallery, ‘I am the Walrus Curated by Jan Avgikos’, New York, USA
Riva Gallery, ‘Beautiful Grotesque’, New York, USA
100 x Kunst am Karlsplatz, ‘What is Art Good For?’, Wien, Austria
Swiss Institute,, ‘Five Billion Years Curated by Marc Olivier’, New York, USA
Tate, Liverpool, ‘The Uncanny Curated by Mike Kelley,’, Liverpool, United Kingdom
John Michael Koehler Arts Center, ‘Metamorphosis’, Wisconsin, USA
2003
Cranbrook Art Museum, ‘101 Treasures of The Cranbrook Museum’, Michigan, USA
MOCA, ‘The Fourth Sex Curated by Francesco Bonami’, Illinois, USA
Daniel Silverstein Gallery, ‘100 Artists, 100 T-Shirts’, New York, USA
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Instructions Curated by Gerald Matt Vienna’, Wien, Austria
outside installations, ‘PLOP – Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund Curated by Tom Eccles’, New York, USA
Frac, ‘Liquid Sky Curated by Marc Olivier Wahler’, Dijon, France
CRAC Alsace, ‘Narcissus Curated by Hilde Teerlinck’, Altkirch, France
Swiss Institute, ‘Extra Curated by Marc Oliver’, New York, USA
GALLERIA MARABINI, ‘There’s Always Tomorrow’, Bologna, Italy
2002
Greenberg can Doren Gallery, ‘Artemis’, New York, USA
El Infierno De Lo Bello, Domus Artium,, ‘Barrocos y Neobarrocos’, Salamanca, Spain
Neonopolis, ‘Leo Koenig Las Vegas’, Nevada, USA
Kogan Martos Gallery, ‘The Dubrow Biennial,’, New York, USA
2001
CAPC, ‘Vrai que Nature’, Bordeaux, France
Barbican Center, ‘The Americans’, London, United Kingdom
Asbaek, ‘Come On, Feel The Noise’, Copenhagen, Danmark
2000
Robert Birch Gallery, ‘Climbing the Walls Thinking it Mights Be a Way Out’, Toronto, Canada
Serpentine Gallery, ‘The Greenhouse Effect’, London, United Kingdom
PS1, ‘Greater New York’, New York, USA
Andrew Kreps, ‘Nothing’, New York, USA
MOCA, ‘Small World’, California, USA
S.M.A.K., ‘Over the Edges: the Corners of Gent Curated by Jan Hoet’, Gent, Belgium
1999
PPOW, ‘True West Curated by Jason Murison’, New York, USA
Serpentine Gallery, ‘Holding Court Curated by Keith Tyson’, London, United Kingdom
Public Art Fund, ‘In the Public Realm’, New York, USA
1998
Public Art Fund, ‘Beyond the Monument,’, New York, USA
Bard College for Curatorial Studies, ‘Yesterday Begins Tomorrow Curated by Franceso Bonami’, New York, USA
Aldrich Museum, ‘Pop Surrealism’, Connecticut, USA
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthalle, ‘Spatiotemporal-Works from the Collection 1988-1998’, Stockholm, Sweden
Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, ‘Pollution’, Milan, Italy
1997
Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, ‘To be Real’, California, USA
Bard College for Curatorial Studies, ‘Bring You Own Walkman’, Amsterdam, Nederland
1996
Northern Illinois University, ‘Clarity’, Illinois, USA
1995
Cranbrook Academy of Art, ‘Thesis Exhibition’, Michigan, USA