Presentation
Born in 1971, in Chicago, USA.
Lives and works in New York, USA.

Education

1995
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, USA
1993
BFA, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Wisconsin, USA
1991
Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art-Independent Study, New York, USA
Selected Artworks
Woman with Bowl
Woman with Bowl
2017
168.0 x 50.0 x 55.0 cm / 66.1 x 19.7 x 21.6 in
Atlas
Atlas
2016
102.0 x 46.0 x 74.0 cm / 40.2 x 18.1 x 29.1 in
Head (Orange)
Head (Orange)
2018
29.2 x 22.9 x 25.4 cm / 11.5 x 9.0 x 10.0 in
Videos
Relics
Relics
Exhibitions In Our Galleries
All Exhibitions
Solo shows

2018
Real Estate Fine Art, Brooklyn, USA
I Hope All Is Well..., 500 Capp Street, San Francisco, USA

2017
Past - Life, Marlborough Contemporary, London, United Kingdom
Hera, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA

2016
Realisms, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

2015
Garden, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, USA
Garden, Marlborough Broome Street, New York, USA

2014
Tony Matelli, Olaf Bruening, John Miller, Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc., Moscow, Russia
Tony Matelli: New Gravity, The Davis Museum, Wellesley College, USA

2013
Stephane Simoens Contemporary, Knokke, Belgium
White Flag Projects, Saint Louis, USA
Tony Matelli - A HUMAN ECHO, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway
Windows, Walls and Mirrors, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, USA

2012
Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
Tony Matelli - A HUMAN ECHO, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Windows, Walls and Mirrors, Leo Koenig Inc, New York, USA

2011
Falkenrot Prize 2011: Tony Matelli: Glass of Water, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Glass of Water, Selestat Bienniale, Selestat, France

2010
The Constant Now, Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
Tony Matelli: Mirror Paintings, Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
Mise en Abyme, Stephane Simoens Contemporary, Knokke, Belgium

2009
Yesterday, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, USA
The Idiot, Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc., Moscow, Russia
Life and Times, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
Abandon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2008
Survival, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow, Russia
Survival, Uppsala Kunstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
The Old Me, Leo Koenig Inc, New York, USA
Self Portraits, with Phillip Akkerman, Stephane Simoens, Knokke, Belgium

2007
New Works, Leo Koenig Inc, New York, USA

2006
Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
Charlotte Moser Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

2005
Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, Paris, France
Abandon, Centre d’Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain

2004
Abandon, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Fucked and The Oracle, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria

2003 Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
Sies & Hoeke Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany

2002
Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, Paris, France
Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome Sperone Jr., Rome, Italy
Bailey Fine Art, Toronto, Canada

2001
Leo Koenig Inc., New York, USA
Art Dealers Invitational, Marseille, France

2000
Sies+ Hoeke Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Ten in One Gallery, New York, USA
Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherland
Galerie du Triangle, Bordeaux, France

1999
Abandon, University of Buffalo Art Gallery, New York, USA
Andrehn Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
Basilico Fine Arts, New York, USA

1997
Basilico Fine Arts, New York, USA
Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, USA

Group shows

2018
[entro'pi?], curated by Lars Rahbek, St. Kongensgade 50, Copenhagen, Denmark
Relics, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Landscapes After Ruskin: Redefining The Sublime, curated by Joel Sternfeld, Grey Art Gallery, New York, USA
People: Figurative Sculpture, Jeffrey Deitch Projects, New York, USA
BURNT, curated by Leo Fitzpatrick, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, USA
Objects Like Us, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA
This Is A Pipe: Realism And The Found Object In Contemporary Art, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, USA
Reshaped Reality. 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Kunsthalle Tubingen, Baden Puttemberg, Germany; Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan

2017
The Sunshine Eaters, Onsite Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
Beyond Nature, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, France
What’s Up - The Americas, Smart Fine Arts, London, United Kingdom
de tussentijd (the meantime), Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
August Sun, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athen, USA
No Place Like Home, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Reshaped Reality. 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark; National Gallery of Australia, Parkes, Australia
Just The Facts, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, USA

2016
SMS SOS, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, USA
Wanderlust, The High Line, New York, USA
Ancient Echo, 10 Hanover, London, United Kingdom
Fountain of Youth, Bill Brady Gallery, Miami, USA
Summer School, Flag Art Foundation, New York, USA
Ground Control, Art Basel Miami Beach Public 2016, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA
Silleteros, KINMAN, London, United Kingdom
Comme si de rien n’était (As If Nothing had Happened), Van Buuren Museum, Brussels, Belgium
Green Doesn’t Sell, Art Brussels, Sorry We Are Closed, Brussels, Belgium
Realisms, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Watermill Center, Watermill, USA
So I turned myself to face me, Marlborough Contemporary, London, United Kingdom
Fresh Cuts, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, USA
Home Improvements, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Forever, Bubox, Kortrijk, Belgium
Mystifiers, NCCA, Moscow, Russia
Reshaping Reality. 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture, Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico

2015
Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
Unrealism, presented by Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch, The Moore Building, Miami, USA
Mutated Reality, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Bottoms Up: A Sculpture Survey, The Art Museum of the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
Brunch Over Troubled Water, Plutschow Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
At the Crack of Dawn, LARM Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eagles II, Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, Spain
Seven Deadly Sins: LUST, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, USA
Condensed Matter Community, Synchrotron Radiation Center: Home of Aladdin, Stoughton, USA

2014
Walk-ins Welcome, Marlborough Broome Street, New York, USA
Broadway Morey Boogie, Broadway Mall Association, New York, USA
Another Look at Detroit, curated by Todd Levin, Marlborough Chelsea and Marianne Bosky Gallery, New York, USA
Vintage Violence, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, USA
About Sculpture #1, Galerie Ronaldo Anselmi, Berlin, Germany
Baroque, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm, Sweden

2013
Double Hamburger Deluxe, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, USA
UNCANNY, Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs, USA
Director’s Choice 7-9-13, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
SOMETHING ABOUT A TREE, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
A Study in Midwestern Appropriation, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, USA
Pizza Time!, Marlborough Broome Street, New York, USA
Beer Show, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, USA
De leur Temps 4, ADIAF, Paris, France
Quiet Works, Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Desire, El Segundo Museum of Art, USA
LOST (in LA), FLAX Foundation, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park
Cultural Freedom in Europe, Goethe Institut and Sint Lukas Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2012
Simulacrum, curated by Michael Goodson, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, USA
He Is Transparent, Renwick Gallery, New York, USA
you, your sun and shadow, curated by Michael Jones McKean, Anderson Gallery at VCU, Richmond, USA

2011
Dark Christmas, Leo Koenig Inc, New York, USA
December, curated by Howie Chen, Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York, USA
Selestat Biennal, curated by Hans Dunser, Olivier Grasser, Sophie Kaplan, Pierre-Olivier Rollin and Otto Teichert, Selestat, France
echos, Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, France
Small, Medium, Large, curated by Francis Breist and Susanne van Hagen, Donjon, Vez, France
Pretty on the Inside, curated by Erik Parker and KAWS, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Sculptures, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, France
Personal Structures, curated by Karlyn De Jongh and Sarah Gold, 54th International Venice Biennale: ILLUMInations, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
Impossible Vacation, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, USA
Fragmentations, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France

2010
Hunters & Gatherers, Gian Enzo Sperone, Sent, Switzerland
A vos papiers, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
Transcending..., LARMgalleri, Copenhagen, Denmark
Love in Vein, Gering & Lopez, New York, USA
No Show, Spencer Brownstone, New York, USA
Just Love Me, MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxembourg
The Wasteland, The White Box, New York, USA
Both Sides of the Pulaski, curated by Andrea Salerno, Fine Art in Space, Long Island City, USA
Hyping the Real, Stephane Simoens, Knokke, Belgium
Realismus: Das Abenteurer der Wirklichdeit, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
N’importe Quoi, Musee d’art contemporain de Lyon, France
Back to the Future: Buy-Self, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Don’t Piss on Me and Tell Me It’s Raining, APEX Art, New York, USA
Blind Sculpture, curated by Gelitin, Greene Naftali, New York, USA

2009
Ferne Näehe, KunstMuseum, Bonn, Germany
Infinitesimal Eternity, Images Made in the Face of Spectacle, Yale School of Art, New Haven, USA
The Effect of Modern Art on Green Circles, curated by Anselm Franke, Vanmoerkerke Collection, Belgium
Guided By Voices, Forest City Gallery, London Ontario, Canada
The Figure and Dr Freud, Haunch of Venison, New York, USA
Chasing Napoleon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Persona. Image. Time. Human Representation in Art: from Modernism to Present-day, The Cultural Foundation Ekaterina, Moscow, Russia
Nature en Kit, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
Time-Life, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, USA
Another Mythology, State National Centre of Contemporary Art Moscow, Russia

2008
Evolution, Max Lang, New York, USA
Bad Planet, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Esculturismo, la Suma de Todas, Madrid, Spain
Attention to Detail, curated by Chuck Close, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Faxination, curated by Bill Saylor, Gallerie LOYAL, Stockholm, Sweden
New Media, Stephane Simoens, Knokke, Belgium
Fuck You Human, Maribel Lopez Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2007
Betes et Hommes, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France
Undone, Whitney Museum at Altria, New York, USA
Movement, Evolution, Art, The Cultural Foundation Ekaterina, Moscow, Russia
Stranger than Paradise, curated by Max Henry, Galerie Charlotee Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
I AM AS YOU WILL BE: Skeletons in Art, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
Pull My Finger, curated by Joe Zane, Allston Kirt Gallery, Boston, USA
The Power of the Physical – SCULPTURE TODAY!, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin, Germany
Baroque Biology, with Alexis Rockman, CAC, Cincinnati, USA
Still Life, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

2006
Hysteria Siberiana, curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Arts, Lisbon, Portugal
Five Billion Years, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
The Furnace, curated by Goschka Macuga, AFoundation, Liverpool, United-Kingdom
Helter, Helter, curated by Max Henry, Galerie Anne de Villepois, Paris, France
Into Me, Out of Me, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, PS1 / MOMA, New York, USA
Contemporary Art Institute, Long Island City, USA
Create Your Own Museum, Gary atintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2005
Self Preservation Society, Leo Koenig Inc, New York, USA
Leaving Cockaigne, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, USA
It’ll Cost You..., curated by Beth Rudin DeWoddy, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, USA
Fairy Tales Forever, Homage to H.C. Andersen, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Figure It Out, Hudson Valley Center For ContemporaryArt, Peekskill, USA
The Altoids Collection, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, USA
Baroque and Neo-Baroque. The Hell of the Beautiful, The Domus Artium 2, Centre of Contemporary Art of Salamanca, Spain
We Can Do It!, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2004
Needful Things: Recent Multiples, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Altered States, Leo Koenig Inc., USA
Making VIsible, Galerie Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Ten Commandments, Die Zehn Gebote, Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
I am the Walrus, curated by Jan Avgikos, Cheim & Reid Gallery, New York USA
Beautiful Grotesque, Riva Gallery, New York, USA
What is Art Good For? 100 x Kunst am Karlsplatz, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
Five Billion Years, Swiss Institute, curated by Marc Olivier, New York, USA
Extra, curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
The Uncanny, curated by Mike Kelley, Tate, Liverpool, United-Kingdom
Metamorphosis, John Michael Koehler Arts Center, Sheboygan, USA

2003
101 Treasures of The Cranbrook Museum, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, USA
The Fourth Sex, curated by Francesco Bonami, MOCA Chicago, USA
100 Artists, 100 T-Shirts, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York, USA
Instructions, curated by Gerald Matt, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
PLOP - Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund, curated by Tom Eccles, outside installations, New York, USA
Liquid Sky, curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler, FRAC, Dijon, France
Narcissus, CRAC Alsace, curated by Hilde Teerlinck Altkirch, France
Extra, curated by Marc-Oliver Wahler, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
There’s Always Tomorrow, Bologna, Italy

2002
Artemis, Greenberg can Doren Gallery, New York, USA
Barrocos y Neobarrocos, El Infierno De Lo Bello, Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain
Neonopolis, Leo Koenig, Las Vegas, USA
The Dubrow Biennial, Kogan Martos Gallery, New York, USA

2001
Vrai que Nature, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
The Americans, Barbican Center, London, United-Kingdom
Come On, Feel The Noise, Asbaek, Copenhagen, Denmark

2000
Climbing the Walls Thinking it Mights Be a Way Out, Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
Greater New York, PS1, Long Island City, USA
Nothing, Andrew Kreps, New York, USA
Small World, MOCA, San Diego, USA
Over the Edges: the Corners of Gent, curated by Jan Hoet, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium

1999
True West, curated by Jason Murison, PPOW, New York, USA
Holding Court, curated by Keith Tyson, Entwistle, London, United-Kingdom
In the Public Realm, organized by the Public Art Fund, New York, USA

1998
Beyond the Monument, organized by the the Public Art Fund, Metrotech, Brooklyn, USA
Yesterday Begins Tomorrow, curated by Franceso Bonami, Bard College for Curatorial Studies, New York, USA
Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum, USA
Spatiotemporal-Works from the Collection 1988-1998, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthalle, Sweden
Pollution, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

1997
To be Real, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, USA
Bring You Own Walkman, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherland

1996
Clarity, Northern Illinois University, Chicago, USA

1995
Thesis Exhibition, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, USA
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