MATT LIPPS
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Born 1975; Lives and works in San Francisco & Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION
2004 MFA     Studio Art, University of California, Irvine
1998 BFA     Photography, California State University, Long Beach

ONE & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012 Matt Lipps: HORIZON/S, UCR | California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Matt Lipps, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK
2011 HORIZON/S, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
HORIZON/S, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Women's Heads), billboard project on La Cienega Blvd., LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Matt Lipps: HOME, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Living History II: Asad Faulwell & Matt Lipps, works selected by Marc Selwyn & Dean Valentine, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Matt Lipps / Caroline May, The Apartment, Athens, Greece
2007 Horses, The Office, Huntington Beach, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 SET-UP, Stephen Hepworth, curator, Galerie Jousse Entreprise, Paris, FR
Battleground States, Aaron Moulton, curator, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Daegu Photo Biennale, Charlotte Cotton, curator, Daegu, South Korea
Figure and Form in Contemporary Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Tilt/Shift: New Queer Perspectives on the Western Edge, organized by Darin Klein, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2011 US EST, organized by Soo Kim, Pepin Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Greater L.A., organized by Eleanor Cayre, Benjamin Godsill, and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
As Yet, Untitled: Artists & Writers in Collaboration, SF Camerawork, CA
Assembly: 8 Emerging Photographers from Southern California, Fred Torres Collaborations, New York, NY
2010 Cutters / Berlin: An Exhibition of International Collage, Pool Gallery, Berlin, Germany
FotoFest 2010 Biennial, Assembly: 8 Emerging Photographers from Southern California, Houston, TX
After Image, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
2009 Cutters, James Gallagher, Curator, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Related Work, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Tainted Love, curated by Steven Lam & Virginia Solomon for Visual AIDS, La Mama La Galleria, NYC
Inside Of You, PHIL, Los Angeles, CA
The Banality of Good, Claremont Graduate University Gallery, Claremont, CA
2008 APhF:08 | Athens Photo Festival, Hellenic Centre for Photography, Athens, Greece
BUMP: Recent + Rarely Seen Explicit Videos from Southern California Artists, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2007 OFF HOURS, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
SHOW, Heather Cantrell, Curator, The Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Rainbow Goblins, Darin Klein, Curator, The Advocate and Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Photography Unbound, Heather Murray, Curator, California State University, San Bernadino, CA
Libertine Society presents: The Nature of Excess, L2kontemporary, Los Angles, CA
Great American Nude, Matt Wardell, Curator, Harvey Levine Gallery, Culver City, CA
Organica, Autumn Beck & Chloë Flores, Curators, enView Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2005 Come Together, enView Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Log Cabin, Jeffrey Uslip, Curator, Artists Space, New York, NY
2004 Rendering Gender, Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO
SUPERSONIC: 1 Windtunnel, 8 Schools, 120 Artists, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
MFA Thesis I, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA

FELLOWSHIPS
2003

Claire Trevor School of the Arts Scholarship

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Saatchi Collection, London, UK
Pilara Foundation Collection / Pier 24, San Francisco, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 Cotton, Charlotte, "Nine Years, A Million Conceptual Miles," Aperture Magazine, Spring 2013
2012 Cotton, Charlotte, Photography is Magic!, Daegue Photo Biennale, exhibition catalog, p. 132-137
Ewing, William A., Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery exhibition catalog
Labong Leilani, "10 to Watch: Rising Stars of the Art World," CA Home + Design, April 2012, p. 58
2011

Curcio, Seth. “HORIZON/S: An Interview with Matt Lipps,” DailyServing.com, 19 November 2011 (web)
Harren, Natilee. “Reviews: Matt Lipps,” Artforum, November 2011, p. 280-81
Zellen, Jody. “ReviewMatt Lipps,” Art Ltd., Sept/Oct. 2011, p. 36
Pagel, David. “Art Review: HORIZON/S,” Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2011 (web)
Winant, Carmen. “Art Review: HORIZON/S,” KQED Arts, 25 July 2011 (web)
Roberta Smith, "A Bit of Hollywood, Minus the Tinsel," New York Times, 31 May 2011
2010 Matt Sussman, “Year In Art,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, 21 December 2010
“Hot Shots: A Selection from Photography’s New Guard,” Modern Painters, November 2010
Carrie Yury, “Reinventing Photography: Hybrid Photographic Forms,” Huffington Post.com, Nov 2010
Jean Dykstra, "Dispatches from the Brink," Art in America, June-July 2010: p. 80
Victoria Gannon, HOME, Art Practical. 18 May 2010 (web)
Julia E. Hamilton, The Great Indoors, Artslant. 5 June 2010 (web)
GF Wahlquist, HOME @ Silverman Gallery, ARThood. 6 June 2010 (web)
FotoFest 2010 Biennial, Contemporary U.S. Photography, exhibition catalog, 2010
2009 Portfolio, ANPQuarterly, Vol. 2/#4, p. 64-71
Christopher Miles, "Living History II: Asad Faulwell & Matt Lipps," LA Weekly, May 06, 2009
2008 Adi Engleman, Mier Kordevani, and Toony Navok, editors, Picnic Magazine #3, p. 446. Tel Aviv, Israel.
Sreshta Premnath & Steven Lam, editors, Shifter Magazine #11: Intimate, p. 48-50.New York, NY.
2007 Kathryn Hargreaves, “Off Hours,” Artillery, Nov/December 2007, p. 39.
Chad Clark, “Horses,” Frontiers Magazine, February 27, 2007, p. 102.
2006 THING: New Penis Art in America, Darin Klein, Editor
2005 Matthew Higgs, "Best of 2005," (for Log Cabin exhibition) Artforum, December, 2005, 258.
Holland Cotter, “Art in Review; ‘Log Cabin.’” New York Times, January 28, 2005.
2004 Robert Summers, "In Excess," catalog essay, SUPERSONIC: 1 Windtunnel,
8 Schools, 120 Artists, (12 June, 2004), Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

EXHIBITIONS ORGANIZED
2004

California Community Foundation Visual Arts Initiative, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

LECTURES
2010 California College of the Arts, San Francisco
University of California, Riverside
2009 University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Scripps College, Claremont, CA
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Santa Barbara
2008 University of California, Los Angeles, Summer Arts Institute
2006 Artist Lecture, Queer Arts Collective, Cal Arts, Valencia, CA
2004 "AIDS, Art, and Activism," Visiting Artist Lecture, University of California, Irvine, CA