OVERVIEW | CV | PRESS | GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
(b.1979) lives and works in New York.
EDUCATION
BFA Painting 2001, Rhode Island School of Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Daybreak, Halsey McKay Gallery HMGP, Brooklyn, NY
2022 World Trade Center Paintings, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Still Life Paintings, F, Houston, TX
2021 Office Space, Jeffrey Stark, New York, NY
2019 High Rise, F, Houston, TX
2018 The House on County Road One, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2017 Landscape Paintings, (with Francis Picabia), The National Exemplar, New York, NY
Landscape Paintings, (Part II), The National Exemplar, New York, NY
2016 The Night Watch, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Sweaty Tubes, The National Exemplar, New York, NY
2015 See Forever, The National Exemplar, New York, NY
2014 Other City, Halsey McKay Gallery,East Hampton, NY
1515 Church, 55 Gansevoort, New York, NY
2011 Feelings of Control, Karma, New York, NY
Matt Kenny, Derek Eller Gallery New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Visible World, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Harry Smith’s Shirt, F, Houston, TX
2021 Sprits in the Material World, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Ten Years, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Friends and Family, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
2020 Comedy of Erros, The Gallery @, Los Angeles, CA
Real Estate, F, Houston, TX
2019 Smile curated by Todd Von Ammon, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2016 November’s Bone,Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2015 Interiors, Matt Kenny and Aaron Aujla, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, ON
Skin Part I, The National Exemplar, New York, NY
Teste, in collaboration with The National Exemplar,Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2014 Ghost Current, curated by Ryan Wallace, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
American Sculpture, The National Exemplar, New York, NY
Urbanities, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Tone Poem, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2012 Water Feature, Curated by Lizzie Wright and Shaun Krupa, Wildlife, Brooklyn, NY
Karma, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Coercive Beliefs, published by The National Exemplar
2012 A REAL Bronx Cheer, Dan Colen, Ron Delsener, Matt Kenny, Fulton Ryder
2011 Feelings of Control , Karma
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 Wood, Robert, The Action is in the Questions: Interview with Matt Kenny, Los Angeles Review Of Books, 2.20.2019
2017 Hart, Joseph, Matt Kenny, Deep Color Podcast, January, 2017
2015 Schwendener, Martha, 10 Galleries to Visit in SoHo and TriBeCa, The New York Times, 4.16.2015
Matt Kenny “See Forever” at The National Exemplar, Purple Diary, 3.25.2015
2014 Landes, Jennifer, Two Striking Serialists, The East Hampton Star, 6.17.2014
2013 Landes, Jennifer, Tone Poem at Halsey Mckay, The East Hampton Star, 5.28.2013
2012 Library of Matt Kenny, #21 of Anyway 51 series, Ari Marcopolous, Dashwood Books
Powers, Bill, Hot Air, Dan Colen’s A Real Bronx Cheer, T Magazine, 10.24. 2012
2011 Kenny, Matt, “Concrete Memories, False Pasts, Fictional Futures and Messages from Strangers” essay in Peanuts, Dan Colen, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art
Kenny, Matt, Feelings of Control, Edition of 100, Karma, New York