Matt Mullican (American, born )

New York-based Contemporary visual artist Matt Mullican (American, b.1951) is best known for his exploration of the subjective experience through the intersection of communal signage with personal semiotics. In order to produce these characteristically abstract, geometric forms, Mullican utilizes a combination of separate media including, drawing, painting, sculpture, and more recently, video, electronic media, and installation. Mullican attended the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA in 1974, and currently exhibits extensively all over the world, with his most recent solo shows being held at the Mai 36 Galerie in Zurich, Switzerland, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer in Antwerp, Belgium; Helga Maria Klosterfelde in Berlin, Germany; and Tracy Williams, Ltd., in New York, NY. Mullican currently lives and works in New York City, where he continues to develop his unique contemporary idiom.

Timeline

1951
Born in Santa Monica, CA
1974
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, BFA
Currently lives and works in New York City

Exhibitions

2013
THE ENCYCLOPEDIC PALACE AT THE 55TH INTERNATIONAL VENICE BIENNALE, Venice, Italy
2012
“Who Feels the Most Pain in the Five Worlds,” Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich (solo)
2012
“Recent Works,” Galerie Micheline Szwajcer Antwerp (solo)
2012
“Two into One Becomes Three,” Klosterfelde, Berlin (solo)
2012
“Editions 1986–2012,” Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Berlin (solo)
2011
Organizing the World,” Haus der Kunst, Munich (cat.) (solo)
2011
“Behind That Person,” Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York, NY (solo)
2011
“City,” ProjecteSD, Barcelona (solo)
2011
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich (solo)
2011
“Work in Residence #3,” Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, the Netherlands (solo)
2011
“Work in Residence #2,” Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, the Netherlands (solo)
2010
“88 MAPS,” Three Star Press, Paris
2010
“12 by 2,” Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (cat.)
2010
“Work in Residence #1,” Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, the Netherlands
2010
“Matt Mullican: Works from the 1980s and ’90s,” Kunsthalle LA, Los Angeles (curated by Michael Solway)
2010
Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands
2009
STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium (solo)
2009
Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada (solo)
2009
“CITY AS A MAP (OF IDEAS),” GAK, Bremen, Germany (solo)
2009
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon (solo)
2009
Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck, Austria (solo)
2009
“Five x Five,” Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris (solo)
2009
“Cosmology,” Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich (solo)
2009
“Planet of Signs (Concrete Erudition 1),” Frac, Île-de-France, France (solo)
2008
Whitney Biennial 2008, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2008
Hanne Darboven, Matt Mullican, Dan Peterman, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
2008
The Puppet Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA
2008
STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium (solo)
2008
Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2008
John Baldessari and Matt Mullican, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York (solo)
2008
ProjecteSD, Bacelona, Spain (solo)
2008
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
2008
Matt Mullican – zur künstlerischen Intervention im Athletik Zentrum St. Gallen, St.Gallen, Swiss (solo)
2007
The Secret Theory of Drawing, The Model Arts Centre & Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland (cat.)
2007
Timeout. Art and Sustainability, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
2007
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2007
Auto Emotion, Autobiography, emotion and self-fashioning, The Power Plant, Toronto
2007
REALLIFE Magazine: 1979-1990, Artists Space, New York
2006
Editionen, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
2006
Matt Mullican, Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2006
Room Number 4, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
2006
Matt Mullican: Works from the 70's and 80's, Tracy Williams Ltd., New York, New York (solo)
2006
Direct Cast – Neue Skulpturen, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany (solo)
2006
Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Projectesd, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2006
Five Suitcases of Love, Truth, Work and Beauty, Christine Burgin, New York, New York (solo)
2006
Model Architecture, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria (solo)
2006
The Secret Theory of Drawing, The Drawing Room, London (cat.)
2006
Looking Back, White Columns, New York
2006
The 80’s: A Topology, Museu de Serralves, Porto
2006
Pictograms, The Loneliness of Signs, Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart (cat.)
2005
Traces Everywhere, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York, New York
2005
Gyroscope, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C
2005
Ecstasy. In and About Altered States, MOCA, Los Angeles (solo)
2005
O.K. Centrum Fur Gengenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
2005
Model Architecture, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz
2005
Love, Work, Truth and Beauty, Galerie Nelson, Paris
2005
Two Rooms Learning From That Person’s Work, Kloserfelde, Berlin
2005
Learning From That Person’s Work, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2005
Matt Mullican, Kallman Museum, Ismaning
2005
Mullican World, Le Frac Picardie, Amiens (solo)
2005
Wolkenbilder, Aargauer Kunsthaus
2004
Your Fate, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
2004
The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
2004
Global World, Private Universe, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen
2004
Nothing Should Exist, Tracy Williams, Ltd., 2004 (solo)
2004
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich (solo)
2003
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon (solo)
2003
Mapping a City: Hamburgkartierung, Galerie fur Landschaftkunst, Hamburg
2002
Transformer, Porin Taidemuseo, Pori
2002
Johann Widauer, Innsbruck (solo)
2002
Anton Kern Gallery, New York (solo)
2002
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich (solo)
2001
L’Effet Larsen, Centrum fur Gegenwartskunst, Linz
2001
The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (solo)
2001
Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona (solo)
2001
Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen (solo)
2001
Galerie Nelson, Paris (solo)
2000
Orbis Terrarum: Ways of Worldmaking, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp
1999
Utopia 2, Same Player Shoots Again, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
1999
Get Together, Kunst als Teamwork, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
1999
Stimuli, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
1998
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, the Netherlands. (cat.) (solo)
1997
Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands (with Lawrence Weiner) (solo)
1996
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
1995
Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1994
Rosebud (with Lawrence Weiner and Jenny Holzer), Lenbachhaus, Munich Germany. (cat.) (solo)
1993
Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy (solo)
1992
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo)
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