MATT KENNY
Collaborations and Bootlegs: 10 Years of F Magazine
July 13 – August 17, 2024, Josh Pazda Hiram Butler, Houston
HARRY SMITH'S SHIRT
April 2 – June 4, 2023
Still Life Paintings
September 25 – November 6, 2022
Real Estate
July 9 – September 30, 2020
High-Rise
November 9 – December 20, 2019
b. 1979, Kansas City, MO
Lives in New York
EDUCATION
2001 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Courbet's Paintings, with Green River Project LLC, Trevor Cheney Gallery, Los Angeles
Tower Paintings, 56 Henry, New York
2023 Daybreak, Halsey McKay Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Still Life Paintings, F, Houston
World Trade Center Paintings, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2021 Office Space, Jeffrey Stark, New York
2019 High-Rise, F, Houston
2018 The House on County Road One, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2017 Landscape Paintings (Part II), The National Exemplar, New York
Landscape Paintings, (with Francis Picabia), The National Exemplar, New York
2016 The Night Watch, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Sweaty Tubes, The National Exemplar, New York
2015 See Forever, The National Exemplar, New York
2014 Other City, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1515 Church, 55 Gansevoort, New York
2011 Feelings of Control, Karma, New York
Matt Kenny, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Collaborations and Bootlegs: 10 Years of F Magazine, Josh Pazda Hiram Butler, Houston
2023 Visible World, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
HARRY SMITH'S SHIRT, F, Houston
2022 At The Rose House, Green River Projects, The James Rose Center, Ridgewood, NJ
2021 Sprits in the Material World, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Ten Years, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Friends and Family, Magenta Plains, New York
2020 Comedy of Erros, The Gallery @, Los Angeles
Real Estate, F, Houston
2019 Smile, curated by Todd Von Ammon, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2016 November’s Bone, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2015 Interiors, Matt Kenny and Aaron Aujla, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Skin Part I, The National Exemplar, New York
Teste, The National Exemplar/Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2014 Ghost Current, curated by Ryan Wallace, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
American Sculpture, The National Exemplar, New York, NY
Urbanities, James Fuentes Gallery, New York
2013 Tone Poem, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2012 Water Feature, curated by Lizzie Wright and Shaun Krupa, Wildlife, Brooklyn, NY
Karma, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Rudy Giuliani, Houston: F (Forthcoming)
2017 Coercive Beliefs, New York: The National Exemplar
2012 Marcopolous, Ari. Library of Matt Kenny, #21 of Anyway 51 series, New York: Dashwood Books
Colen, Dan; Delsener, Ron; Kenny, Matt. A REAL Bronx Cheer, New York: Fulton Ryder
2011 Feelings of Control, New York: Karma
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Benzine, Vittoria. “Meet the 11 Artists Who Repped Brooklyn at the Armory Show,” Brooklyn Magazine, September 12
Madlener, Adrian. “Object & Thing and Green River Project Team Up to Celebrate Maverick Landscape Architect James Rose,” architecturaldigest.com, September 22
Keh, Pei-ru. “Landscape architect James Rose’s legacy explored in show at his midcentury New Jersey home,” wallpaper.com, September 8
Segal, Mark. “The Art Scene,” The East Hampton Star, May 5
2020 Marnie, Adam. “Matt Kenny,” interview. F PDF 004, September 30
Kenny, Matt. “Subject Management,” tri-fold insert to F Magazine, Issue 10, REAL ESTATE, April
2019 Wood, Robert. “The Action is in the Questions: Interview with Matt Kenny,” Los Angeles Review Of Books, February 20
Kenny, Matt. “John M. Newman,” F Magazine, Issue 8, April
2018 Kenny, Matt. “Lists,” F Magazine, Issue 7: PARANOIA, September
Kenny, Matt. “National Rifle Association,” F Magazine, Issue 6: SEX, April
2017 Hart, Joseph. “Matt Kenny,” interview. Deep Color Podcast, January 2017
Kenny, Matt. “Grand and Olive” and “James Jesus Angleton,” F Magazine, Issue 5, January
2015 Kenny, Matt. “United Architects,” F Magazine, Issue 3: The Advertising Issue, September
Schwendener, Martha. “10 Galleries to Visit in SoHo and TriBeCa,” The New York Times, April 16
Kenny, Matt. “John Marks and the CIA,” F Magazine, Issue 2: Truth and Lie, April
Gillant, Elise. “Matt Kenny ‘See Forever’ at The National Exemplar,” Purple Diary, March 25
2014 Landes, Jennifer. “Two Striking Serialists,” The East Hampton Star, June 17
Kenny, Matt. “The Secret Origin of Vermilion Sands,” F Magazine, Issue 1: Mechanical Reproduction, June
2013 Landes, Jennifer. “Tone Poem at Halsey McKay,” The East Hampton Star, September 28
Powers, Bill. “Hot Air, Dan Colen’s ‘A Real Bronx Cheer,’” T Magazine, October 24
2011 Kenny, Matt. “Concrete Memories, False Pasts, Fictional Futures and Messages from Strangers,” essay. Peanuts, Oslo, Norway: Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art