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b. 1970, New York City, NY

Lives and works in Dallas, Texas



Education

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

SMU, Meadows School of the Arts, MFA candidate 2012


Awards and Recognition

Meadows School of the Arts Artistic Scholarship Award, 2010

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

Nomination, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, 2009

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

Claud Vance Memorial Award, Art in the Metroplex, Fort Worth, TX, 2008

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

New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, 2006

Visiting Artist, The Cooper Union, 2005

Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Hofstra University, 2004


Solo Exhibitions

Matthew Cusick, Defacements: A Collection of Altered Book Pages,curated by Michael Corris, Free Museum of Dallas, TX  2010

Matthew Cusick, Cease to Exist, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City, 2010

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

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

The Map Paintings, Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2005

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

Just a Kiss Away, Kent Gallery, New York City, 2000

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

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

Matthew Cusick, Larvae Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, 1997

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


Two Person Exhibition

Matthew Cusick & David Hartt, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York City, 1997 


Group Exhibitions

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 Art, Omaha, NE

2009

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

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

Friggatriskaidekaphobia, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 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

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 

Aqua Art Miami, Lisa Dent Gallery, Miami, FL

Sprawl, Haley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA

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

Traffic, Exit Art, New York City

2004–2000 

The Constructed Image, Kent Gallery, New York City

File on Motor Transgression, Kent Gallery, New York City

Endless Summer, Kent Gallery, New York City

Vox, Kent Gallery, New York City

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

1999-1996 

X-Mas, Kent Gallery, New York City

Built, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Dream Architecture, Kent Gallery, New York City 

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 

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

What a Wonderful World, Unfinished Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

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


Bibliography

Jordy Clements, Hopey Changey Things, Omaha.net, June 8, 2010

Jennifer Razo, Matthew Cusick, Beautiful/Decay Magazine.com, July 2010 

David Coggins, Seeing The World, Art In America, June/July 2010, p54-56 

Walter Robinson, Weekend Update, ArtNet Magazine, January 13, 2010

Life Lessons From a Gallery Tour, The Museumist, January 28, 2010 

JD Nalley, Matthew Cusick: Cease to Exist, Leaves of Glass, January 23, 2010

Katharine Harmon with essays by Gayle Clemans, The Map as Art; Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009

Marion Wolberg Weiss, Art Commentary, Dan’s Papers, p79, July 18, 2008

Alison Bevilacqua, Bold Strokes, Vox Magazine, August, 2008

Alexandra Anderson-Spivy, Everything plus the Kitchen Sink, Artnet, July 29, 2008

John Goodrich, Cut-and-Paste, Then and Now, New York Sun, July 3, 2008 

Jonathan Vigliotti, Relive Sleepless Night, Miami Beach Plum, November 11, 2007

Jyl Hoyt, Artbeat (radio interview), National Public Radio, June 7, 2007

Karen Bossick, Examining Greed and Need, The Wood River Journal, May 23, 2007

Sabina Dana Plasse, Take a Look at ‘Profit & Loss,’ Idaho Mountain Express, May 23, 2007

Alan Bamberger, San Francisco Art Galleries, ArtBusiness.com, March 27-31, 2007 

Jonathan Crowe, Matthew Cusick, The Map Room, December 18, 2006

Sarah Finlay, Matthew Cusick, Artkrush, December 13–26, 2006

Stephanie Laemoa, Matthew Cusick at Lisa Dent, The San Francisco Chronicle, December 14, 2006

Geoff Manaugh, By Indirections, BLDGBLOG, December 13, 2006

Paddy Johnson, Aqua & Nada: Who Will Win The Prized..., Art Fag City, December 10, 2006

Lea Feinstein, Matthew Cusick, San Francisco Weekly, November 29, 2006

Billy O’Callaghan, Matthew Cusick at Lisa Dent, Fecal Face Dot Com, November 29, 2006

Mellisa Goldstein, Matthew Cusick at Lisa Dent Gallery, 7x7 Magazine, November 4, 2006 

Brianna M. Smith, Matthew Cusick, Flavorpill SF, October 31 – November 6, 2006

Maureen Mullarkey, Gallery Going, The New York Sun, June 29th, 2006

Alan Bamberger, San Francisco Gallery Openings, ArtBusiness.com, May 10-13, 2006 

Onajidé Shabaka, ABMB & Miami Fairs Wrap Up, MAEX, December 15, 2005

R.C. Baker, Traffic, The Village Voice, December 14-20, 2005, Voice Choices Pick, pC76,  

John Markoff and Matt Richtel, On the rebound In Silicon Valley, The New York Times, reproduction, July 3, 2005

Alison Bing, Map Drawings, SFGate.com, March 24, 2005 

Alan Bamberger, San Francisco Gallery Openings, ArtBusiness.com, March 10, 2005 

Ken Johnson, The Constructed Image, The New York Times, January 27, 2004, pE33

Christopher Bollen, Art Lives, VMAN, Issue 3, Fall/Winter 2004, p68

Art Calendar, Matthew Cusick’s Map Paintings, The New York Sun, October 21, 2004

Toby Kamps, Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990’s, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, catalog, selected exhibition history, January 2002, p19,119; “Diamonds Are Forever” reproduction, p119 

Readings, Without Each Other, Harper’s Magazine, January 2001, p17, reproduction

Kim Levin, Matthew Cusick, Recent Paintings, The Village Voice, October 24, 2000, Choices, p112

Ken Johnson, Matthew Cusick, Diamonds are Forever, The New York Times, March 26, 1999, pE41

Robert Mahoney, Matthew Cusick, Diamonds are Forever, Time Out, March 25, 1999, p73

Dominique Nahas, Matthew Cusick, Diamonds are Forever, Review, March 15, 1999, p19

Flaunt editorial reproduction, Flaunt, September 1999

Max Henry, Gotham Dispatch, ARTNET, March 23, 1999

Robert Mahoney, A Delicate Condition, ARTNET, April 27, 1998

Kim Levin, Matthew Cusick and David Hartt, The Village Voice, January 14, 1997, Choices , pC8

Susan Brooks, Clips, Matthew Cusick and David Hartt, NY Soho, January 1997, p18

Helen A. Harrison, Narrative Abstractions, The New York Times, October 15, 1995, LI p20

Tom Vinciguerra, Predisposed, The New Yorker, January 27, 1992, p11


Collections

Progressive Corporation Art Collection

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The Robert & Jereanne Chaney Collection

Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection

The Mattsson McHale Foundation

Jeri L. Waxenberg Collection