MATTHEW HIGGS
Born 1964 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England
Lives and works in New York
Education
| 1984-87 | Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic, BA (Hons Fine Art) |
| 1983-84 | Blackburn School of Art (Foundation) |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2016 | Lost For Words, Murray Guy, New York |
| 2015 | Matthew Higgs and Clive Hodgson, Wilkinson, London |
| 2014 | Matthew Higgs, Ian Wallace: Reading Works, The Apartment, Vancouver |
| 2013 | MLMH (two person exhibition with Margaret Lee), Murray Guy, New York |
| 2012 | MHML (two person exhibition with Margaret Lee), The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI |
| 2010 | Showdown, The Apartment, Athens, Greece |
| 2009 | Art in Crisis – Pictures in Peril, Murray Guy, New York Never Look Back, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY Beginnings, Middles and Ends (with Gedi Sibony), Galerie Senn, Vienna |
| 2008 | Wilkinson, London Are You Happy, The Apartment, Vancouver |
| 2007 | EX LIBRIS: Matthew Higgs and Peter Wuethrich, University Gallery Umass, Amherst, MA Jack Hanley, Los Angeles |
| 2006 | What goes around comes around, Murray Guy, New York |
| 2004 | Priceless, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL |
| 2003 | Art Isnʼt Easy, Murray Guy, New York |
| 2002 | Not Worth Reading, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London |
| 2000 | Look Now, Pay Later, Murray Guy, New York |
| 1999 | Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London |
| 1997 | Thereʼs a painting on the wall (a collaboration with Chris Ofili), Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London |
| 1996 | Thereʼs a painting on the wall (a collaboration with Peter Doig), Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2016 | Foundation Barbin Presents Redeux Sort Of, Kai Matsumiya Gallery, New York |
| 2014 | Not for All My Little Words (curated by Tim Hawkinson), Marc Straus, New York Manic Panic, Shoot the Lobster, New York. |
| 2013 | Parasitic Gaps, Team Gallery, New York Summer Reading, The Hole, New York Blank Out, The Apartment, Vancouver MHMMML. Matthew Higgs/Marion Mullen/Margaret Lee, International Art Objects, Los Angeles 19516 kilometers from Milwaukee or 12126 miles, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo Brennan & Griffin, New York Wallspace, New York |
| 2012 | The Feverish Library, Freidrich Petzel Gallery, New York Andrae Kaufmann Gallery, Berlin Funny (curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson), The Flag Art Foundation, New York Creature from the Blue Lagoon (curated by Bob Nickas), Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer (curated by Børre Sæthre & James Hoff), Tidens Krav, Oslo, Norway The End (curated by John Connelly), Vogt Gallery, New York |
| 2011 | The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial (organized by Bob Nickas), Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY We Are Grammar, Pratt Manhattan, New York |
| 2010 | Con il libro, Galleria Martano, Turin, Italy The Page, Kimmerich, New York Ashes to Ashes (curated by Christopher Garrett), AMP, Athens, Greece Book Ends, James Fuentes, New York |
| 2009 | The Living and the Dead, Gavin Brownʼs Enterprise, New York In A Room Anything Can Happen, CCS Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
| 2008 | Tractatus Logico-Catalogicus, VOX contemporary image, Montreal The Overlooked Space, Plug In ICA,Winnipeg, Canada Friends & Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York Not So Subtle Subtitle, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York A New High In Getting Low (NYC), John Connelly Presents, New York |
| 2007 | Two Years, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Ashtray, KS Art, New York Matthew Buckingham, Francis Cape, Kota Ezawa, Matthew Higgs, Murray Guy, New York Abstraction, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles I Like to Watch, The Canal Chapter, New York Type Face, James Harris Gallery, Seattle |
| 2006 | Nicole Klagsbrun, New York Mid-Life Crisis, Salander-O’Reilly Gallery, New York |
| 2005 | Looking at Words: the formal presence of text in modern and contemporary works on paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Rub Out the Word (curated by Michael Wilson), d.u.m.b.o. Arts Center, Brooklyn NY In words and pictures, Murray Guy, New York Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Bergdorf Goodman, New York |
| 2004 | Small: The Object in Film, Video, and Slide Installation, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Book Show, The Nunnery, London |
| 2003 | Video Lounge, Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL Pages (curated by Buzz Specter), Cristina Rose/Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York Welcome Home, Gavin Brownʼs enterprise, New York |
| 2002 | Mixer 02, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago New Originals, Richard Salmon, London |
| 2001 | A Private Reading, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York |
| 2000 | 3 Rooms, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London Cheated, Paul Stolper, London Point of View, Richard Salmon, London Snowballing, Arthur R. Rose, London |
| 1999 | Dot, dot, London Bibliomania, Waterstones, London Porcupines, 291 Gallery, London On Paper, Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen The Sea, The Sea, Murray Guy, New York |
| 1998 | In the Beginning, Murray Guy, New York Books as art (curated by Andrew Bick), Cheltenham Literary Festival, Cheltenham, UK Some English Atrocities (curated by Godfrey Worsdale), Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK |
| 1997 | 20/20, Kingsgate Gallery, London Lovecraft (curated by Martin McGeown and Toby Webster), CCA, Glasgow, UK; South London Art Gallery, London (1998) Imprint 93 (and other related ephemera), Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK I wish I could draw (curated by Linda Karshan), Sandra Gering Gallery, New York |
| 1996 | On a Clear Day, work for an interactive CD-ROM, touring exhibition Life/Live (curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Laurence Bossé), Musée dʼArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Centro Culturel de Belem, Lisbon (1997) Viper, Bank at The Dog, London Yerself is Steam, 85 Charlotte Road, London Banana Republic, Bund, Malden Lane, London NowHere (curated by Iwona Blazwick), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark Collected Works (curated by Neil Cummings), On View, Derby School of Art, Derby, UK Open, Gavin Brownʼs enterprise, New York Kiss This, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK The Happy Squirrel Club, Bank at Die Fabriek, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Wingate Artists Award (selected by Iwona Blazwick, Peter Doig and Adrian Searle), Art 96, London |
| 1995 | Cocaine Orgasm, Bank at Burbage House, London Charge of the Light Brigade, Bank at Burbage House, London Mélange dʼAout, Laure Genillard Gallery, London Enthusiasts, Gavin Brownʼs enterprise, New York Imprint 93, City Racing, London Portsmouth, Portsmouth City Art Gallery and Museum, Portsmouth, UK Zombie Golf, Bank at Burbage House, London Supastore Boutique (curated by Sarah Staton), Middlesborough Art Gallery, Middlesborough, UK Four Projects (curated by Rose Lord), Frith Street Gallery, London Making Mischief, Byron House, St. Jamesʼ Street, London |
| 1994 | Making Mischief, Byron House, St. Jamesʼ Street, London Supastore Boutique (curated by Sarah Staton), Laure Genillard Gallery, London East (selected by Rudi Fuchs and Jan Dibbets), Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK Imprint 93, Cabinet Gallery, London Curatorʼs Egg (selected by Patricia Bickers), Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
| 1993 | Okay Behaviour (curated by Gareth Jones and Gavin Brown), 303 Gallery, New York Making People Disappear (curated by Gareth Jones), Cubitt Gallery, London Publicsfear (curated by Tod Lippy), Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Underlay (curated by Gavin Brown), 15 Renwick Street, New York |
| 1992 | Inside a Microcosm (curated by Gareth Jones), Laure Genillard Gallery, London |
Awards
| 1996 | Wingate Artists Award |
Public Collections
Tate Modern, London
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Selected Artist’s Publications
| 2010 | with Martin Creed, double-sided 12-inch vinyl picture disk, The Thing Quarterly, no. 13 (Winter 2010–2011) |
| 2002 | “Three Parts.” Open City, no. 16 (Winter 2002–2003), pp. 203–211 |
| 1997 | Untitled contribution. The Mule [London]. Artists’ newspaper. Artist’s page. Victoria Magazine [London], No.1 (1997) |
| 1996 | Last Supper. Artist’s project. Paris: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; London: Imprint 93, 1996 “Local News.” Artist’s pages. Edited by Stephan Willats, Control Magazine [London] no. 15 (1996) Room. Artist’s book. London: Bund, 1996 Seven Wonders of the World. Artist’s book. London/Humlebaek, 1996 |
| 1995 | Artist’s project. Starkmann Library Services catalogue 4, London “Five Bookpages.” Artist’s project. Nummer Magazine [Cologne], no. 3, (1995), 5pp Desert Island Discs. Artist’s project. London: City Racing/Imprint 93, 1995 Five Bookpages. Artist’s book. London: Frith Street Gallery, 1995, 14pp |
| 1994 | Top Tens. Artist’s project. London: Cabinet Gallery/Imprint 93, 1994 |
| 1993 | Some Broken Windows. Artist’s book. London: Imprint 93, 1993, 16pp Okay Behaviour. Artist’s project. New York: 303 Gallery, 1993 Making People Disappear. Artist’s project. London: Cubitt Street Gallery, 1993 The Reluctant Lover. Artist’s project. Publicsfear magazine [New York] 1, no. 2 (1993), 14pp |
Selected Bibliography
| 2014 | Saltz, Jerry. “Matthew Higgs Is a National Treasure.” Vulture.com, 9 December 2014 |
| 2013 | Fiske, Courtney. “Parasitic Gaps.” Artforum.com, 14 September 2013 |
| 2010 | Hultkrans, Andrew. “The Thing.” Artforum (February 2010) |
| 2009 | Gopnik, Blake. “It’s the Thought That Counts.” The Washington Post, 25 January 2009 “Matthew Higgs.” The New Yorker, 23 January 2009 |
| 2008 | Geldard, Rebecca. “Rebecca Geldard on Matthew Higgs’ Art Is To Enjoy at Wilkinson, London.” Daily magazine, The Saatchi Gallery, 22 July 2008 Higgs, Matthew. “Take Eight Found Books.” Art World (August/September 2008), pp. 101, 110–111 Jones, Jonathan. “Conceptual Art is To Enjoy.” The Guardian, 25 July 2008 Perry, Colin. “Unrelated – Wilkinson Gallery, London.” Frieze (September 2008) Samson, Véronique. “Avec Tractatus Logico-Catalogicus et La Boîte verte, le centre Vox présente deux expositions qui s’intéressent aux marges de l’oeuvre d’art.” Le Délit, 18 November 2008 |
| 2007 | Berardini, Andrew. “Matthew Higgs – Jack Hanley Gallery.” Artforum.com, 9 August 2007 Tabakova, Nia. “Matthew Higgs.” Contemporary 21 (Fall 2007), pp. 48–51 |
| 2006 | Chu, Ingrid. “Matthew Higgs – What Goes Around Comes Around – Murray Guy.” para-para-, no. 24, (October–Dececember 2006), p. 5 Coggins, David. “Matthew Higgs at Murray Guy.” Art in America (June/July 2006), p. 192 Cotter, Holland. “Matthew Higgs.” The New York Times, 28 April 2006, p. E37 Dunham, Carla Ruth. “Matthew Higgs.” ArtUS, no. 14 (July–September 2006), pp. 54–55 “Matthew Higgs.” The New Yorker, 8 May 2006 Thompson, Adam. “Matthew Higgs.” Art Papers (September/October 2006), p. 61 Wilson, Michael. “Matthew Higgs – Murray Guy.” Artforum (September 2006), pp. 375–376 |
| 2003 | Hunt, Andrew. “Matthew Higgs.” Frieze, no. 74 (April 2003), p. 95 Johnson, Ken. The New York Times, listings, 14 February 2003 O’Reilly, Jane. “Matthew Higgs.” Time Out [London], January 2003 Saltz, Jerry. “Paper Trail, A Survey of Drawing on the Rise.” The Village Voice, 29 January–4 February 2003 Sholis, Brian. “Pages.” Artforum.com, 18 December 2003 Wilson, Michael. “Matthew Higgs.” Artforum.com, 23 January 2003 |
| 2002 | “Not Worth Reading.” The Guardian [London], December 2002 |
| 2000 | Falconer, Morgan. “Matthew Higgs.” Grove Dictionary of Art Online Smith, Roberta. “Look Now Pay Later.” The New York Times, 18 February 2000, p. E44 |
| 1999 | Coomer, Martin. “Matthew Higgs.” Time Out [London], 1999 McEwen, John. “Matthew Higgs.” Sunday Telegraph [London], 1999 |
| 1998 | Kino, Carol. “Cutting-Edge but Comfy.” The Atlantic Monthly (November 1998), pp. 125–131 Kino, Carol. “In the beginning.” Time Out New York, no. 159, 8–15 October 1998, p. 62 Scott, Andrea. “Current Top Picks.” Citysearch.com, 8 October 1998 |
| 1995 | Barrett, David. “Matthew Higgs & Imprint 93.” Art Monthly, no. 189 (September 1995), pp. 45–46 Barrett, David. “Fiona Banner / Matthew Higgs / Jaki Irvine / Frieda Munro.” Art Monthly, no. 184 (1995), p. 27 |