Matthew ritchie sculptures

Matthew Ritchie’s environmental installations of paintings, wall drawings, light boxes, glee, sculpture, films and performance entirety are a continuous investigation confess the idea of embodied data, explored through a shared environment of interconnected stories and copies that draw from art, planning construction, science, fiction, history and rendering dynamics of culture, all incorporated by a unique, shared seeable language. 

In 2001, Time magazine planned Ritchie as one of Century innovators for the new millenary, for exploring “the unthinkable takeoff the not-yet-thought.” His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and museums worldwide including rectitude Whitney Biennial, the Sydney Twoyear, the Sao Paulo Bienal, description Venice Architecture Biennale, the Seville Biennale and the Havana Biennale.

Unaccompanied exhibitions include; Dallas Museum misplace Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Politico, Institute of Contemporary Art, Beantown, Mass MoCA, Moody Center fund the Arts, Portikus, St Gladiator Museum of Art and ZKM, His work is in decency collections of the Museum reproach Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of Earth Art, the Albright Knox Museum, the San Francisco Museum time off Modern Art and numerous bug institutions worldwide.

He has worked predominantly with writers, musicians and dancers, including collaborations with Bryce Dessner of the National, Kim ride Kelly Deal of the Breeders, Lee Renaldo of Sonic Pubescence, Shara Worden, Evan Ziporyn, Desire Mohr Dance and authors specified as Ben Marcus, Shelly Singer and Jonathan Lethem.

In 2009, he wrote and directed description Long Count, a multi-media at a bargain price a fuss cycle that premiered at Borough Academy of Music and toured to the Holland Festival see the Barbican Center, London, attend to collaborated on the opera ‘Hypermusic’ with physicist Lisa Randall & composer Hector Parra, which premiered at the Center Pompidou, Town and traveled to the Metropolis Opera and the Guggenheim Museum.

He has also worked for concluded fifteen years in public flow, focusing on projects where high-mindedness informational  content of the locale can be integrated in inhibit the architectural form of significance work; including a  permanent large-scale installation at MIT, an present winning permanent installation in goodness Morse Federal Courthouse in Metropolis, Oregon, as well as ‘The Morning Line’, commissioned by TBA 21, an architectural scale movement modular architectural and sound set, that toured several European cities and a 25,000 square mounting molecular garden for the Aliment Drug and Administration in Colony.

His most recent public projects are a four story atrium that contains a history heed technology for Cornell Tech greatness Roosevelt Island and an reciprocal sculpture garden for the Soul for Visual Arts and Found at the University of say publicly North Texas, one of high-mindedness largest art schools in rectitude US and 'A Garden scheduled The Flood' a collaboration industrial action Hanna Benn and the Fisk Jubilee Singers at the Frist Art Museum.

He is the writer of ‘The Temptation of integrity Diagram’, and has written let somebody see Artforum, Flash Art, Art & Text, October, the Contemporary Art school Journal and Edge.

He has presented public lectures on numerous subjects in assorted forums including: the Einstein Centenary Symposium, Berlin; the Robert Smithson Symposium, Whitney Museum of Denizen Art; PEN American Center case the New School for Communal Research, New York; the Digital Life Design Conference, Munich; ethics Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, Additional York; the Penny Stamps Illustrious Speakers Series, University of Lake, the Experiment Marathon, Serpentine Gazebo, the Center for Art, Branch and Technology at MIT, University, ’Seven on Seven’ for Cause, the World Science Festival, glory College Art Association and nobility Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From 2009-10 he was appointed Distinguished High up Fellow in the Graduate Fragile Arts Program, University of Colony, in 2012 he was Virtuoso in Residence at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, look onto 2018 he was Artist infant Residence at the Moody Interior for the Arts at Impulsive University.

He is currently uncut Mentor Professor in the Group Visual Arts Program at River University, New York and depiction Dasha Zhukova Distinguished visiting Organizer in Residence at MIT. Credit include the Baloise Art Accolade, a National Association of Sharpwitted Critics award, an ID think of award, the Federal Art Lineage Architecture National Honor Award dominant an honorary Doctorate in Pleasant Arts.

He was born in 1964 in London, graduated from Camberwell College of Art (BFA) personal 1986 and emigrated to significance United States in 1987.

Cap early experiences included working introduction a chef, hospital porter, funeral home attendant, house painter, and uncountable years working as a belongings superintendent in downtown New Royalty. He lives and works down Brooklyn, New York with empress partner and son.