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Solo Exhibitions

2012 File on Motor Transgressions, Ground Control, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

2010 Matthew Cusick’s Defacements: A Collection of Altered Book Pages, The Free Museum of Dallas, TX

Matthew Cusick: Cease to Exist, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY

2008 Matthew Cusick, From What I’ve Read, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton NY

2006 Matthew Cusick, Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2005 Matthew Cusick, Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004 The Map Paintings, Kent Gallery, New York, NY

2000 Just a Kiss Away, Paintings by Matthew Cusick, Kent Gallery, New York, NY

1999 Diamonds are Forever, Kent Gallery, New York, NY

1998 Spiritual Kin, Paintings by Matthew Cusick, The Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY

1997 Matthew Cusick, Larvae Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

1996 Domain, Paintings by Matthew Cusick, The Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY

Matthew Cusick and David Hartt, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY (two person exhibit)


Group Exhibitions

2012 Illusions, Lumas, Berlin, Germany

Seascapes, Lumas, Vienna, Austria

American Dream, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI

2011 Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University,  Lewisberg, PA  (traveling nationally through 2013)

Drawing Gifts, Benefit Auction for the Drawing Center, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Art In the Metroplex, curated by Toby Kamps, The Moudy Gallery at TCU, Fort Worth, TX

Seeing is Knowing: The Universe, Weitz Center for Creativity, Carleton College, MN

Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Fort Worth, TX

Illustrations for Our Afflicted Powers, The Texas Biennial, Free Museum of Dallas, TX

On Wheels, Brand 10 Artspace, Fort Worth, TX

Art Party Benefit Auction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Borders and Frontiers: Collage and Appropriation in the Contemporary Image, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI

2010 Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art, curated by Sarah Tanguy, Katonah Museum of New York

Cosmic: Artists Consider Astronomy, curated by Courtney Gilbert, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID

Hopey Changey Things, curated by Hesse McGraw, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

2009 Collage, London/New York, Fred Gallery, London, England

Skin and Other Stories, The Vagus Nerve Gallery, Las Vegas, NV

Friggatriskaidekaphobia, Bemis Underground, Omaha, NE

2008 $999 Holiday Bazaar, curated by Allison Smith, Honey Space, New York City

Drawing Gifts, Benefit Auction for The Drawing Center, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City

Art In the Metroplex, curated by Eleanor Heartney, The Moudy Gallery at TCU, Fort Worth, TX

1968–2008, The Culture of Collage, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City

Headlands Benifit Auction, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2007 Now Playing: Artists Who Borrow from Film, curated by John McWhinnie and Jeremy Sanders,
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton NY 

Reverie & Revolt: Contemporary Collage, curated by Jane Hart. Art Center of South Florida, Miami, FL

Profit & Loss, curated by Kristin Poole, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID

Zoom +/-, Arena 1 at Santa Monica Art Studios, Los Angeles, CA

Annual Art Auction, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2006 Aqua Art Miami, Lisa Dent Gallery, Miami, Fl

The New Collage, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City

Road Movies, The Lab, San Francisco, CA

Speed, Venere Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2005 Traffic, Exit Art, New York City

Aqua Art Miami, Lisa Dent Gallery, Miami, FL

Urban Jungle, The Natural World Museum, San Francisco, CA

Sprawl, Haley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004 Constructed Image, Kent Gallery, New York City

File on Motor Transgression, (Performance, Video), Kent Gallery, New York City

2002 Endless Summer, Kent Gallery, New York City

2000 Vox, Kent Gallery, New York City

  The Trinity, curated by Jim Browne, Galapagos Art & Performance Space

1999 X-Mas, Kent Gallery, New York City

  Built, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  Dream Architecture, Kent Gallery, New York City

1998 Surfing the Surface, curated by Kathleen Cullen, DFN gallery, New York City

  Group Show, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York City

  The Warehouse, Exit Art, New York City

  A Delicate Condition, curated by Jerry Kearns, Kent Gallery, New York City

1997 Narratives?, curated by Todd Levin, Fotuohi Cramer Gallery, New York City

  What a Wonderful World, Unfinished Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1996 Kunstart 96, curated by Miki Bungee, Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt, Germany

  3 Wochen New York, Planie-Galerie Guth & Maas, Reutlinger, Germany

  SNAFU, 407 Gallery, The Art Exchange Show, New York City

  The Art Market, curated by Amy Stone, Gen Art, New York City


Education

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, BFA, 1993


Awards, Fellowships, & Residencies

2010 Artistic Scholarship Award, Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas TX

2008 Artist Residency, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE

Claud Vance Memorial Award for Art in the Metroplex, Fort Worth, TX

2006 Fellowship Grant in Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts, NY 

Nominations

2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award

2008 The Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award, Cooper Union, NY

2005 Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship, San Francisco, CA


Lectures & Teaching

2009 Visiting Artist Residency, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV

2005 Visiting Artist, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, NY

2004 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Hofstra University, Long Island, NY


Collections

International Collage Center

Progressive Corporation Art Collection

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The Mattsson McHale Foundation

The Robert & Jereanne Chaney Collection

Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection

Jeri L. Waxenberg Collection


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