Untitled Document

MATT FRANKS

Born in Yorkshire 1970 - Lives and works in London

For exhibition, Sarcophagus of Kingdom, 2010

EDUCATION
1999-2000 Goldsmiths College, University of London, M.A. Fine Art
1989-1992 Staffordshire University, B.A. Fine Art (hons)
1988-1989 Hull School of Art, Foundation Course in Art and Design

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 ‘its so hard to tell whose going to love you the best’, Houldsworth Gallery London
2007 Economist Plaza Project with Contemporary Arts Society, London
2005 I am alive and you are dead Vamiali’s Gallery, Athens, Greece
2004 One in the Other Gallery, London
2003 KlingKlang, Habitat, Tottenham Court Road, London
2002 transcendent plastic infinite, Art Now, Tate Britain
------- Late One Evening, Tetuhi Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
------- New Gods, alison jacques gallery, London
1999 Untitled Installation, Beverley Art Gallery, East Yorkshire
1998 Faking It, Red Gallery, Kingston-Upon-Hull

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (after 2000)
2010 ‘The kingdom of the Sarcophagus’, I-MYU, London
------- ‘The Future Demands Your Participation’: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2009 ‘Fly Bys’, Christoffer Egelund Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
------- ‘Workshop of the Hereafter’, Blyth gallery Imperial College, London

2008 ‘20’, Dazed and Confused gallery, London
------- Art futures, Bloomberg, London
------- Untitled 3 person show, Fieldgate gallery, London

2007 Play, Bearspace, London
------- Foreign policy, Luis Serpa Gallery, Lisbon , Portugal
------- tech-mac-mayacom, Tokyo, Japan
------- Blickachsen 6, Bad Homburg Kurpark, Germany in conjunction with Yorkshire Sculpture Park
------- latitude (8X8X8)’ Fieldgate gallery, touring to London and New York
------- Art Futures, Bloomberg Space. London
------- Eau Savage part 2, Fieldgate Gallery, London

2006 Metropolis Rise: New Art from London, curated by Anthony Gross
& Jen Wu, Shanghai and Beijing, China.
------- 8x8x8 The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, curated by Andrea Stanislav,
Minneapolis.
------- Crossing the Borders, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
------- Eau Savage, Lucy Mackintosh gallery, Laussane, Switzerland
------- Sweetness and Light, Marksman Gallery, Reading, UK
------- Kamikaze blossom, Fieldgate Gallery. Whitechapel, London

2005 Know what they mean? Chez Valetine, Paris, curated by Elisabeth Wetterwald, Including: Delphine Coindet, Anita Molinero, Carole Manaranche, Jim Lambie
------- Mysterium, galerie artrepco, Zurich, Switzerland
------- Pencil- A Drawing Show, Carter Presents, London
------- Only minutes to live, temporarycontemporary, London
------- The Drawing Show, Shangrila, London
------- Yabadabadoo, cell projects, London, curated by Trailer.
------- The Future Lasts a Long Time, Le Consortium, Dijon
------- Do not tell me who I am, St Pauls Gallery, London, curated by Peter Lamb
------- The Nature of Things, Birmingham Museum of Modern Art, including: Glenn
------- Brown, Neal Rock, Dave Burrows, D.J. Simpson, and Bridgit Riley

2004 Contrapop, Vamiali’s gallery, Athens, Greece, curated by Suhail Malik.
Including Ian Monroe, Daniel Pflumm, Toby Zeigler, Caroline Achaintre, Jo
Mitchell
------- The Future Lasts A Long Time, Tal Esther, Tel Aviv
------- Material Faith, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
------- Including Ian Dawson, Carolyn Castano, Katie Grinnan, Peter Lamb
------- Mind the Gap, Triangle Arts. Marseille, France
------- Shape Shifters, M. Projects, Paris. Curated by Anthony Gross.
------- Including Brian Griffiths, Ian Dawson, Denise Kum, Sheena Macrae, Jen Wu
------- Cinderella, Bermondsey, London. Curated by Trailer.
------- First Assembly, The Ragged School, Union Street, London
------- Decoding Highlights, VTO, London, curated by Eva Karapanou.
------- Into my world, New British Sculpture, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary
------- Art, Connecticut, U.S.A. Including: Mike Nelson, Jim Lambie, David Thorpe, Roger Hiorns, Laura Ford, James Ireland, Mariele Neudecker, Saskia Olde Wolbers
------- Tonight Studio Voltaire, London curated by Paul O’Neil

2003 Matchine, Matchine Group show, Spitalfields, London, One in the Other Outside, curated by Chris Norika. Including: Keith Wilson, Mark Titchner, Sam Basu, Art Lab, Kevin Francis Grey, Diann Bauer, Guy Bar Amotz.
------- ‘Attention. Vous étes face d' un espace intermédiaire...’ galerie Air de Paris & Praz Delavallade, Paris, France.
------- This Was Tomorrow, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, Hampshire Curated by Penelope Curtis. Including: Barbara Hepworth, Liam Gillick, Claire Barclay, Eva Rothschild, Toby Patterson and Tacita Dean
------- Point of No Return, Pallis Studios, Dublin. Curated by Yari Lager, Colin
Ledwith, Mark Titchner
------- The Collection of an Invisible Man, Laing Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Curated by Brian Griffiths. Including Keith Tyson, Keith Wilson, Klega, Roddy Thompson and Colin Lowe, David Thorpe.

2002 Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany. Including Mike Stubbs and DJ Simpson
------- Flying High, SWAB Presents, Achilles House, Auckland, New Zealand
------- Craft, Cell Project Space, London. Including Ian Dawson and David Burrows
------- My Way, LE CREDAC, Galerie Fernand Leger, Paris. Curated by Frank Lamy

2001-2003 Tailsliding, British Council touring exhibition. Curated by Stephen Hepworth, with Colin Ledwith. Including Jim Lambie, Peter Davis, David Thorpe, Simon Periton, Eva Rothschild, Gary Webb, DJ Simpson, Kate Bright and Clare Woods:
(Bergen Centre for Contemporary Art, Norway, Vilnius Centre of Contemporary Art; Lithuania, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallin, Estonia;
Brno House of Arts, Czech Republic; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; New Museum of Modern Art, Salamanca, Spain;
Centre of Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy; Krakow Bunkier Sztuki, Poland)

2001 Hallucinating Love, asprey jacques, London. Curated by Gigotto del Vecchio
------- Throb, Gallery Westland Place, London. Curated by Mike Stubbs
------- Ego Tripping, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
------- High Kickn’, High Falutin, VTO Gallery, London
------- All of My Heart, Galleria Arte e Personae, Florence, Italy. Curated by Stephen Hepworth
------- Arse about face, Cell Project Space, London

0-1 London Orphan Asylum, touring exhibition. Curated by Clare Manchester and Gilda Williams (Open Space, Milan; Australian Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Australia; Plimsol Gallery, Tasmania) Including Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Martin Creed, Mark Leckey, Brian Griffiths, Tomoko Takahashi and Jeremy Deller

2000 Mental Wilderness, Gale Gates et al, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York
------- The Armchair Project, Cinch, London. Curated by Paul McDevitt and Declan Clark
------- Assembly, RCA & Goldsmiths MA graduate show, London
------- Wooden Heart, AVCO. Curated by Reza Arameshi
------- These Epic Islands, Vilma Gold, London. Curated by Brian Griffiths
------- 1 Art in the Open, Quay Art, Kingston-Upon-Hull
------- 2 Kingston Art Group, Harding House, Lincoln

PUBLICATIONS
2009 art world, international edition, White On, Issue 8
2008 Techmacmayocom ex cat, Tokyo Japan
2006 Useless magazine, October
------- 1 Art Review June, Joao Ribas, Great Expectations, p.25
------- The Nature of Things, ex cat, Birminham City Museums, UK
------- 1 Into MyWorld Ex cat, Aldrich Museum, USA
------- Contrapop, ex cat, Vamiali Gallery, Greece
------- Metro Life Hephzibah Anderson, Matchine Matchine, Aug
------- Time Out Martin Coomer, Matchine Matchine, , Oct 8,
------- Art Monthly Nicky Bird, The Lost Collection of an Invisible Man, , April p.25-26
2002 Art Monthly, December, Clare Manchester, review of Tate solo show
------- Time Out, October, Sarah Kent, review of review of Tate solo show
------- Art Now, ex cat, transcendent plastic infinite, text by Tim Batchelor
------- My Way, ex cat, edited by Frank Lamy
------- Contemporary, March, international news, Richard Dyer
------- Tank magazine, Vol 3, Issue 1
------- Time Out, January, Martin Herbert, New Gods
2001 Tailsliding, ex cat, edited by Colin Ledwith
------- Time Out, May, Martin Coomer, Ego Tripping
2000 Art Monthly, April, Benedict Seymour, Wooden Heart
------- Art Monthly, March, Gilda Williams, These Epic Islands
------- Assembly, ex cat, London

RESIDENCIES
2004 Weir Farm Residency, Connecticut, U.S.A: As part of Aldrich Museum show ‘Into my World’ Recent British Sculpture
------- Artist in Residence, Kenya, an Arts Council Fellowship, supported by Gasworks London and Triangle Workshops
2002 Inaugural Artist in Residence, Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand

AWARDS
1 British Council Individual Artists Award
1998 Yorkshire Arts Board Artist Grant

PUBLIC ART COMMISSION
1998 Plymouth city council, Harbour Walkway Project, Production of twelve 1:96 scale models of Royal Navy Ships, carved in Styrofoam, cast in iron and set overlooking Plymouth Sound along sea wall