Matthew Stone British, 1982
Matthew Stone's work shows a bold development in the technical, theoretical, and aesthetic fields of his practice. He hand-paints on glass, photographs the brushstrokes, digitally retouches and collages them, and prints the result onto canvas. This approach ushers in a new age of conventional painting, introducing fresh possibilities to convey the sense of movement and entanglement inherent in his compositions. By skillfully utilizing digital media, the artist intricately weaves and manipulates individual gestures into dynamic tableaus. Stone's recent incorporation of artificial intelligence technology further expands the boundaries of art creation, prompting viewers to reevaluate the essence of representational endeavors.
Born in 1982, London, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
EDUCATION
2004
- Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts of London, BA (Hons) Painting (1st)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
- Human in the Loop, Gallery COMMON, Tokyo
- AI PAINTINGS, The Hole, New York
2022
- Matthew Stone: Virtual Paintings, Unit London, London
2021
- A Portrait of the lost artist into the metaverse, The Hole, New York
2019
- small awakenings, CHOI&LAGER Gallery, Seoul
2018
- NEOPHYTE, The Hole, New York
2017
- Back into the body, CHOI&LAGER Gallery, Seoul
2015
- Emotional Manipulation, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
2014
- Cosmic Flesh, Union Gallery, London
- Other Worlds - Wounded Healer, Performance, New York Carlsberg Glyptotek Unconditional Love, The Hole, New York
- Muse Control, Performance, The Hole, New York
2013
- Love Focused Like a Laser (performance), Art Miami Basel, Miami
- Ecstasy, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles
2012
- The Body As Lightning Conductor, The Hole at Villa Vecchia, Miami Art Basel, Miami
- Love Focused Like a Laser, The Hole, New York
- Everything is Possible, Choi & Lager, Cologne
- Unconditional Commitment to Sacred Love, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
- Everything is Possible, Union Gallery, London
2011
- Sculpture Installation, Mondrian Hotel, Miami Art Basel, Miami
- Optimism as Cultural Rebellion, The Hole, New York
- Forever Rules, Union Gallery, London
- Rules Forever, Union Gallery, London
2010
- Anatomy of Immaterial Worlds, ICA, London
- Body Language, V1 Gallery, Denmark
2009
- Interconnected Echoes, Galerie Paul Freches, Paris
- The Co-Existence of Uncompromised Visions, Boyschool, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
- HUMAN, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul
- Ransom Art’s Affordable Art Collection, Ransom Art, London
- Ten: A decade of Unit London, Unit London, London
- E-motions: Art and Isolation in the Age of Hikikomori, Unit London, London
- Fembot, The Hole, New York
- Storage Wars, The Hole, New York
- UNI[2]ON, UNION Gallery, London
- The Hole at NADA New York 2023, The Hole, New York
2022
- V1XX, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
- I Feed My Skin Upon the Landscape, Awake!, UNION Gallery, London
- FLOWER, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul
2021
- Song of Songs: Representations of the self, spirituality and states of mind in art, Unit London, London
- Interconnected, John Wolf Art Advisory & Brokerage, Los Angeles
2020
- Today’s Special #6 and #4, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
2019
- MINE III, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
- I See You, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
- MINE II , V1 Gallery , Copenhagen , Denmark
- The Barn Show , Johannes Vogt Gallery , East Hampton , NY
2017
- Post Analog Painting II, The Hole, New York, NY
2015
- Tower, Ibid. London, London
- Not a Photo, The Hole, New York
- Post-Analog Painting, The Hole, New York
2014
- Storage Wars, Eric Firestone Gallery, Hamptons, USA
- Group Show - Jack, Neil, Shane, Gareth and Matthew, Choi & Lager, Cologne
2013
- GamingGaming, New Shelter Plan, Denmark
- Hindsight, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
- Amor Fati, Pioneer Works, Red Hook, Brooklyn
- Body and History, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille
- New Age of Aquarius, Duve, Berlin
2012
- Fresh Basel, The Hole at Villa Vecchia, Miami Art Basel, Miami
- V1 X - Tonight we won’t be bored, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
- 13.0.0.0.0, RH Gallery, New York
- Marrakech Bienalle, Marrakech, Morocco
- Watch your step, The Flag Art Foundation, New York
- Portrait of a generation, The Hole, New York
- CTRL Group two, Brian Miller Gallery, Texas
- Photography is, Higher Pictures, New York
2011
- Anatomy of Immaterial Worlds, Performa 11, New York
- True Love, The National Museum of Photography, The Royal Library, Copenhagen
- Status, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
- Independent Rites, V1 Gallery, Denmark
- What’s Next, FOAM Museum, Amsterdam
- Volcano Extravaganza, Fiorucci Foundation, Stromboli
- Orientale, 53rd Venice Bienalle, Venice
- Open studio, Viafarini, Milan
- Recessional Aesthetics, James Taylor Project, London
- By night, Trädgården, Stockholm
- 24 Month Meditation, The Island, Italy
- Hard Future, Brighton Festival, Brighton
- OneShot, Allmänna Gallery, Stockholm
2009
- Triumph of the Will, The Centre of the Universe, London
- SHOWstudio, Somerset House, London
- Free Art Fair, The Barbican Centre, London
- SU:MBISORI, Jeju Museum of Art, Korea
- Conflict, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Starmaker, E:vent Gallery, London
2008
- Nought to Sixty, ICA, London
- SEEN… S.C.U.M. & Matthew Stone, Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery, London
- GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy, London
- The Destruction of Atlantis, Union, London
- OPTIMISM: The Art of Our Time, co-curated by Matthew Stone, Hannah Barry Gallery, London
- And As They Reached For God With their Fingertips, Their Toes Wrote Stories In The Sand, Assab One, Milan
- Bold Tendencies II, Hannah Barry Gallery, London
- Bad Year Blimp, Alma Enterprises, London
- GOTHIC, Fieldgate Gallery, London
- EYESORE, V1 Gallery, Denmark
- !WOWOW! and Plastique Fantastique, Tate Britain, London
2007
- Gravity’s Rainbow, Peres Projects, Athens
- Nocturnal, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
- DAZED & CONFUSED vs ANDY WARHOL, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
- Feral Kingdom, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
- Ruhe Bewahren, Arthouse Tacheles, Berlin
- Multiple Discipline, Union Gallery, London
- The Event, International Project Space, Birmingham
2006
- Ten Rooms and a Sculpture Garden, Lyndhurst Way, London
2005
- Fantasy Stories, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
- Rising Tendencies Toward the United States of Mind, !WOWOW! Roaming Space, London
- Optimism as Cultural Rebellion, !WOWOW! Roaming Space (Area 10), London
2004
- Spectacular Spectacular!, !WOWOW! Roaming Space, London
- *RT SH*M*N (performance supporting Lali Chetwynd), ICA, London
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2014
- Shot all portraits for Ever Conscious manifesto, a one-off magazine focusing on environmental sustainability and distributed worldwide. Carsten Holler designed an artwork for the cover.
2012
- The Body as Lightning Conductor, Performance presented with MikeQ at The Hole curated space inMiami as part of Miami Art Basel.
2011
- After being nominated by Marina Abramovic, artist residency programme Viafarini in Milan completed. Dazed&Confused magazine commission Matthew Stone to photograph and collaborate with Riccardo Tisci on the cover of the 20th anniversary issue. The cover is accompanied by a 18 page editorial.
2010
- Interconnected Echoes - The Salon, The Great British Art Debat, at Tate Britain.
2009
- The Centre of the Universe, artist-led/non-profit, nomadic art-space initiated by Stone (ongoing project)
- CTRL.ALT.SHIFT, Artist Mentor to Newcastle students working at the Baltic for a project in partnership with Ctrl.Alt.Shift, a new experimental youth initiative that aims to engage people in global issues, using art as a catalyst for change.
2008
- Manifesto Marathon, Serpentine Interconnected Echoes – The Salon, weekly meeting and discussion forum at the Hospital Club, London
WEB PROJECTS
- 'Interconnected Echoes' functions as a basis for a series of interviews, in which Stone asks people he admires big questions. As the interviews progress everybody questioned adds a question. These questions in turn become the basis for future interviews. Each question links back to the answers of the person who asked it.
- 'Optimism As Cultural Rebellion' provides ongoing documentation of Stone’s practice.
- 'InfinityTimesInfinity' is a snapshot diary of Stone’s life.
AWARDS
2023
- Circa Art Prize, Cultural Institute of Radical Contemporary Arts
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[SEOUL] HUMAN
41-person group exhibition 10 November - 30 Dezember 2023 -
[SEOUL] FLOWER
26 März - 1 Mai 2022 -
[SEOUL] Small awakenings
Matthew Stone 26 Juni - 25 Juli 2019 -
[SEOUL] Back into the Body
Matthew Stone 20 Juli - 23 August 2017 -
[COLOGNE] EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE
MATTHEW STONE 2 Dezember 2012 - 16 Februar 2013
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Sleep, 2023
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We need ceremonies, 2023
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Abstract Shadows of Real Life, 2022
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Energy Vessel 1 (Comfrey), 2022
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Energy Vessel 2 (Apple Blossom), 2022
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Energy Vessel 3 (Chamomile), 2022
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Occasional Interludes of Blissful Peace, 2022
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St Johns Wort, 2022
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Surrender Appears Easy, 2022
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Unspoken and Involuntary Repetition of the Name of God, 2022
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Give Power, 2012
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Kindness Fold, 2012
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Love Focused like a Laser, 2012
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Partial Dimension Veil, 2012
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Perpetual Wave, 2012
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Stormlike Grandeur, 2012
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Thought Compression, 2012
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Where the movements came from, 2012
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AI
Jiseon Kim, Avenuel Magazine, 1 Februar 2024 -
인간이란…국내외 41인 작가가 답하다
노형석 기자, 한계례, 22 Dezember 2023 -
코헤이 나와부터 마뉴엘 솔라노까지, 12월 추천 전시 3
이정미, VOGUE Korea, 30 November 2023 -
41명의 작가가 그려낸 수많은 '인간의 조건'…초이앤초이 '휴먼'展
김일창 기자, 뉴스1, 24 November 2023 -
PKM갤러리, 권진규 테라코타 부조 전시. 국제갤러리, 로니 혼 수채화전·초이앤초이갤러리 41인 단체전 '휴먼'
황희경 기자, 연합뉴스, 21 November 2023 -
41명의 작가가 그린 41가지 ‘인간’
김슬기 기자, 매일경제, 14 November 2023 -
초이앤초이 갤러리, 41명 단체 테마전…'휴먼', 인간이란?
박현주 기자, NEWSIS, 12 November 2023 -
5월부터 8월까지 꼭 가야하는 전시들
안동선 에디터, Harper's Bazaar, 27 April 2022 -
봄, 꽃을 그리다
정상혁 기자, 조선일보, 8 April 2022 -
유럽·한국 신진 작가 41명 `꽃`으로 대동단결…아트페어 놓친 초보 수집가들 홀리네
이한나 기자, 매일경제, 3 April 2022