Matthew Buckingham cv
Born Nevada, Iowa, US. Lives and works in New York

Education
1997 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1996 Master of Fine Arts, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
1988 Bachelor of Arts, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1984 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL


Solo Exhibitions

2005
Timelines, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland, curated by Konrad Bitterli
Currents 94: Matthew Buckingham, St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis MO, curated by Robin Clark
The Distribution of Sensibility: Muhheakantuck–Everything Has a Name, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN, curated by John Rasmussen
Matthew Buckingham, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, curated by Carina Plath
Sandra of the Tuliphouse, The Kitchen, New York, NY, curated by Deb Singer

2004
A Man of the Crowd, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, curated by Suzanne Weaver
Muhheakantuck: Everything Has a Name, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY

2003
A Man of the Crowd, Murray Guy, New York, NY
A Man of the Crowd, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria (cat.), curated by Matthias Michalka
Subcutaneous, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, curated by Cate Rimmer

2002
Definition, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, curated by Larissa Harris

2001
Subcutaneous, Murray Guy, New York, NY (cat.)
Matthew Buckingham: Video Ab Acht, Schnitt Ausstellungsraum, Cologne, Germany, curated
by Barbara Clausen
Sandra of the Tuliphouse or How to Live in a Free State, (with Joachim Koester), x-rummet, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (cat.), curated by Marianne Torp

2000
Situation Leading to a Story, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999
Contemporary Film and Video: Matthew Buckingham, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, curated by Maria Lind
Films + Photographs + Drawings, Murray Guy, New York, NY

1998
Sandra of the Tuliphouse, (with Joachim Koester), Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, curated by Peter Doroshenko


Selected Group Exhibitions

2006
Liverpool Biennial, International 06, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, England,
curated by Ceri Hand
No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art, Aldrich Contemporary Art
Museum, Ridgefield CT, curated by Richarad Klein.
The Golden Hour, GAS, New York, NY, curated by Susanna Cole and Erin Donnelly
Nam June Paik Award 2006, Museum für Angwandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany, jury selection
Between the Lakes: Artists Respond to Madison, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, curated by Jane Simon
Slow Revolution, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Patrick Grenier
Draft Deceit: Things Made to Be Seen Forcefully Obscured, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo Norway, curated by Marta Kuzma
Harun Farocki, Matthew Buckingham, Amie Siegel, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany, curated by Anselm Franke

2005
Universal Experience, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK, curated by Francesco Bonami
I Really Should, Lisson Gallery, London, UK, curated by Stephan Kalmár
I Beg Your Pardon or The Reestablishing of Cordial Relations, Vera List Center, The New School, NY
curated by Andrea Geyer
Faces in the Crowd, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, curated by Iwona
Blazwick, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Matthew Buckingham / Clemens Von Wedemeyer / Maukus Schinwald, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
Introduction to a Scientific Aesthetics, Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, Spain, curated by Chus Martinez
Documentary Creations, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland, curated by Susanne Neubauer
Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, curated by Johnathon Binstock & Stacey Schmidt
Universal Experience, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, curated by Francesco Bonami
(My Private) HEROES, MARTa Herford, Germany, inaugural museum collection exhibition
Circa Berlin, Nikolaj Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, curated by Elizabeth & Simon Sheikh
Faces in the Crowd, Whitechapel, London, UK, curated by Iwona Blazwick, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

2004
Remembering, Sweeney Art Gallery, Univerisity of California, Riverside, CA, curated by Charles Gaines
Rear View Mirror, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK, curated by Elizabeth Fisher
Werkleitz Biennale 6, Halle, Germany, curated by Angelika Richter, Anja Casser, Martin Condrad, Ariane
Müller, Karin Rebbert, Peter Spillmann Florian Wüst, and Peter Zorn.
Territories, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden, curated by Anselm Franke
Éigse, Carlow, Ireland, curated by Orla Ryan
4 and 4, Müller DeChiara, Berlin, Germany, curated by Anselm Franke
The Book as Object and Performance, Gigantic Art Space, New York, NY, curated by Sara Reisman
Get Rid of Yourself, Munich, Germany, curated by Frank Motz
The Past Recaptured, Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, curated by Caroline Knebelsberger
Push the Envelope, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany, curated by Lars Mathisen

2003
Territories, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany, (cat.) curated by Anselm Franke and Sine Bepler
Get Rid of Yourself, ACC Weimar & Stiftung Federkiel, Halle 14 Leipzig, Germany, curated by Frank Motz
Homeland, Whitney ISP, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, curated by Craig Buckley,
Tanya Leighton, Sara Reisman, Emily Rothschild, and Nat Trotman
Watershed: The Hudson Valley Art Project, Beacon, NY and surrounding locations, organized
by Diane Shamash
Cloudless, Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, curated by Bree Edwards
Inscribing the Temporal, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria, curated by Sara Reisman
Rent-A-Bench, Kunstmuseet Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark, curated by Jacob Fabricius
Affinity Archive, Broadstone Studios, Dublin, curated by Sarah Pierce

2002
Nostalgia, Art In General, New York, NY, curated by Pip Day
Rent-A-Bench, Los Angeles, CA, (cat.) curated by Jacob Fabricius
The Captain’s Road, Dublin, Ireland, curated by Orla Ryan, Maeve Connoly, and Valerie Connor
Road Trip, Murray Guy, New York, NY
The Brewster Project, Brewster, NY, curated by William Stover

2001
Plakardprojekt, organized by SITE & Schnitt Ausstellungsraum, Cologne, Germany, curated by Maria Tappeiner
Quality Street, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark
Definition, Murray Guy, New York, NY
Capecete Projects, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2000
Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
May Day Vienna, The Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria, curated by Regine Basha, Christoff Gerosisis and Anton Vidokle
La Ville, le Jardin, la Memoire–La Folie Section, Villa Medici/Academie de Francia, Rome, Italy (cat.), curated by Laurence Bossé, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Vague but True, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK and Galeri Asbaek, Copenhagen, Denmark
Re-opening, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999
The American Century, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Close-Ups—Contemporary Art and Carl Th. Dreyer, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen,
Denmark (cat.), curated by Lene Crone Crone and Lars Movin
L.A. International, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
You Assume Certain Places Exist, Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels, Belgium
Parking, High Bridge Park, NY, organized by May Day Productions: Regine Basha, Christoff
Gerosisis, and Anton Vidokle
Caravan, Astrotel Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria, curated by Rudi Molacek

1998
Nuit Blanche, ARC Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (cat.), curated by Laurence
Bossé and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (cat.), curated by René Block and Lars Bang Larsen
Screening, Apex Art P.C., New York, NY, curated by Gregory Williams

1997
Assorted Confabulations: Fiction + Interference, Consonni Centro de Prácticas Contemporáneas, Bilbao, Spain, curated by Catsou Roberts
For Eyes and Ears, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark
Three Rivers Arts Festival, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

1996
New Histories, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA


Selected Screenings

2005
Films by Matthew Buckingham, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany

2004
Films by Matthew Buckingham, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

2003
Films by Matthew Buckingham, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Films of Matthew Buckingham, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria

2002
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI

2001
Artist’s Films, Cannes International Film Festival, Cannes, France

2000
Three Films by Matthew Buckingham, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Crossing Boundaries, National Cinematheque, Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art Film, Stadtkino, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Shoot: Moving Pictures by Artists, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

1999
Five 29 Ninety9, one-day symposium, St. Ann’s Church, Brooklyn, NY
Silver Series, Saint Mark's Church Danspace Project, New York, NY
Meters 1, Salon 300, Brooklyn, NY and Tian Miao Lin, Beijing, China

1998
Reading Places, Pacific Film Archive / Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
The Glass of Knowledge, The Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY

1997
New Directors/New Films, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH

1996
Film Club, Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY

1994
Works-in-Progress, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Sydney Public Television, Sydney, Australia

1993
San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Black Maria Film Festival, NJ
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Reel Time, Performance Space 122, New York, NY

1990
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
St. Mark's Church Danspace Project, New York, NY


Teaching

2003-07
Associate Professor, Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

2006
University of Wisconsin Madison Arts Institute visiting artist, Madison, WI

2004-05
Freund Teaching Fellowship, Washington University School of Art, St. Louis, MO

1994-05
Visiting Artist (seminars, workshops, lectures, student critiques):
Academy of Visual Arts, Nürnberg, Germany (2004)
Academy of Fine Arts, Braunschweig, Germany (2004)
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (2002)
Bennington College, Bennington, VT (1994)
Boston College, Boston, MA (1997)
The City University of New York, New York, NY (2001)
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY (2003)
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada (2003)
Hamburg Acedmy of Art, Hamburg, Germany (2004)
Malmö Art Academy-Lund University, Malmö, Sweden (2002)
The New School for Social Research, New York, NY (1996)
New York University, New York, NY (2001)
Odense Academy of Art, Odense, Denmark (2001)
Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, Holland (2004)
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (1998, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (1995)
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (1997)
The School of Visual Art, New York, NY (1995)
The Slade, University College of London, UK (2004)
University of Illinois at Chicago, US (2005)
University Reading, UK (2004)
Vienna Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, Austria (2000)
Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK (2001)

Fellowships and Grants
2004
Henry and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellowship, Saint Louis Art Museum and Washington University
School of Art, St.Louis, MO

2003
DAAD Artists Program, Berlin, Germany
Watershed: The Hudson Valley Project, Minetta Brook Foundation, NY

2001
New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists Fellowship

1997
Danish Film Institute Film Workshop Production Grant

1996
New York State Council on the Arts Film Production Grant

1992
Art Matters Artist’s Fellowship, New York, NY

1990
Apparatus Production Grant, New York, NY


Awards

1997
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Best Narrative Film, Amos Fortune Road

1993
Black Maria Film Festival, Director's Citation, The Truth About Abraham Lincoln
Onion City Film Festival, Best-of-Festival Prize,The Truth About Abraham Lincoln
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Best-of-Festival Prize, Dizzy

1990
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Award of Excellence, At Once
selected collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum Moderne Kunst, Vienna, Austria
MARTa Herford, Germany

Selected Bibliography

2005
Franke, Anselm. "Matthew Buckingham," Parkett, Spring 2005.

2004
Allen, Jennifer. "Faces, Shadows and Clues: An Interview With Matthew Buckingham," Metropolis-M, November, 2004.
Dean, Tacita. “The Art of Matthew Buckingham”, Artforum International, March, 2004.
Huck, Brigitte. “Vienna: Matthew Buckingham, Museum Moderner Kunst”, Artforum International, January, 2004.
Klot, Kristina. “Vielstimmig: der Nachhall der Moderne”, Deutsche Bahn Magazine, March, 2004.
Weaver, Suzanne. “Interview with Matthew Buckingham”, Concentrations 44, Dallas Museum of Art, 2004.

2003
Boettger, Suzanne. “Cinderella on the Hudson”, Art in America, June, 2003.
Buckingham, Matthew with an Essay by Kimberly Lamm. A Man of the Crowd. Vienna: Museum
Moderner Kunst, 2003.
Buckingham, Matthew. “A Man of the Crowd: Annotated Associations With Edgar Allan Poe’s Tale ‘The
Man of the Crowd’”. Untitled: Experience of Place. London: Koenig Books, 2003.
Buckley, Craig and Tanya Leighton, Sara Reisman, Emily Rothschild, Nat Trotman, eds. Homeland.
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2003.
Cotter, Holland. “Art Shows in the Great Indoors”, The New York Times, July 25, 2003.
Cotter, Holland. “Matthew Buckingham: Murray Guy Gallery”, The New York Times, December 12, 2003.
Fabricius, Jacob, ed. Rent-A-Bench. Copenhagen: Pork Salad Press, 2003.
Franke, Anselm, ed. Territories. Berlin: Kunst Werke, 2003.
Gludovatz, Karin. “Der Schrecken der Metropolen: Matthew Buckingham im Museum für Moderne
Kunst, Wien”, Texte zur Kunst, December, 2003.
“Homeland”, Time Out New York, June 19-26, 2003.
Jaugelis, Kristina. “Matthew Buckingham: Charles H. Scott Gallery”, Simon Fraser University Visual Art,
March 2003.
Kastner, Jeffrey. “Hudson Valley: Watershed”, Artforum International, Ocotober, 2003.
Metzger, Rainer, “Soho am Stephansplatz—MUMOK: Matthew Buckingham—A Man of the
Crowd”, Artmagazine, Vienna, September 22, 2003.
Scott, Andrea. “It’s Not Just Men on Horses Anymore”, Time Out New York, May29-June5, 2003.
Sholis, Brian. “Matthew Buckingham: Murray Guy Gallery”, Artforum Online, November, 2004.

2002
Buckingham, Matthew. “The Six Grandfathers, Paha Sapa, in the Year 500,002 c.e.”, Cabinet Magazine,
No.7, Summer, 2002.
Buckingham, Matthew. “Twogether Beside Himself”, Shark, No.4, Autumn, 2002.
Buckingham, Matthew & Joachim Koester. “Points of Suspension”, October, No.100, Spring, 2002.
Choksi, Neha and Allan Kram. “The Voice and the View”, P.S.1 Writer’s Project, 2002.
“Definition—P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center”, The New Yorker, August 12, 2002.
Kraynak, Janet “Matthew Buckingham”, Watershed—The Hudson Valley Art Project, Minetta Brook, 2002.
Lamm, Kimberly. “Resisting Definition”, P.S.1 Writer’s Project, 2002.
Sonkin, Rebecca. “Matthew Buckingham: Murray Guy Gallery” Tema Celeste, March, 2002
Sundell, Margaret. “Wet Dream”, Time Out New York, September 26-October 3, 2002
Vogel, Carol. “Just Call It Art-on-Hudson”. The New York Times, December 13, 2002.

2001
Buckingham, Matthew. “Have You Heard the Weather?” Untitled. Copenhagen: Pork Salad Press, 2001.
Buckingham, Matthew. “Interview With a Cultural Follower and Public Space-Inhabitant”, Shark, No. 3, Winter, 2001
Buckingham, Matthew. Subcutaneous. New York: Shark Books and Murray Guy Gallery, 2001.
Buckingham, Matthew and Joachim Koester. Sandra of the Tuliphouse or How to Live in a Free State.
Copenhagen: Statens Museum for Kunst, 2001.
Burton, Johanna. Time Out New York, December 6-13, 2001.
“From Here to Betweenity”, The Guardian, June 24, 2001.
Koegel, Alice. “Video Ab Acht: Matthew Buckingham”, Kölner Stadtrevue, June 1, 2001.
Kristensen, Pernille Anker. "Alle veje fører til Christiania", Det Sker/Kultur, March 16, 2001.
Lehmann, Ulrike. “Kritische Fragen ans Archiv”, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, June 8, 2001.
Movin, Lars. "Stedernes gådefulde fortælling", Information, March 15, 2001.
Ryan, Orla. "In Between Lost and Found: The Films of Matthew Buckingham", Afterimage,
March/April, 2001.
Williams, Gregory. “Matthew Buckingham: Murray Guy Gallery”, Artforum Online, November, 2001.

2000
Buckingham, Matthew. “Questions for Television Newscasters”, The Glass Eye. Dublin: Project Press, 2000.
Buckingham, Matthew. “Situation Leading To A Story”, Le Jardin, Académie de France à Rome and Villa Medici, 2000.
Buckingham, Matthew and Joachim Koester. “Scene 24: You Assume Certain Places Exist”, Yours Truly, Copenhagen, Pork Salad Press, 2000.
Daniels, Yolande. Greater New York. New York: P.S.1 Institute for Contemporary Art, 2000.
Dunn, Melissa. "Matthew Buckingham’s 'Situation Leading to a Story'". New York: Greater New York , P.S.1 Institute for Contemporary Art, 2000
Jönsson, Dan. "Konstfilm i Malmö", Dagens Nyheter, February 16, 2000.
Shaw, Lytle, "How to Make Good Experimental Ethnographic Films: Matthew Buckingham", Greater New
York. New York: P.S.1 Institute for Contemporary Art, 2000.
Siegel, Katy. "Greater New York", Artforum, May, 2000.
Stanley, Sarah. "Shirin Neshat: Matthew Buckingham", Greater New York. New York: P.S.1 Institute for Contemporary Art, 2000.

1999
Crone, Lena and Lars Movin. Close-Ups: Contemporary Art and Carl Th. Dreyer. Copenhagen: Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, 1999.
Jowitt, Deborah. "Depth of Memory", The Village Voice, April 13, 1999.
Williams, Gregory. "Matthew Buckingham: Murray Guy Gallery, New York", Frieze, May, 1999.

1998
Bossé, Laurence and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, eds. Nuit Blanche. Paris: ARC Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1998.
Buckingham, Matthew. "Home Movies: Situation leading to a Story", SuperUmbau , No.4, Autumn, 1998.
Buckingham, Matthew. "Situation Leading to a Story", Ojeblikket, No.35, Spring, 1998.
Buckingham, Matthew and Joachim Koester. "A Project for Atlantica Magazine", Atlantica International, No. 19., Spring, 1998.
Buckingham, Matthew and Joachim Koester. “You Assume Certain Places Exist”, Bicycle Thieves.
Copenhagen: Port Salad Press, 1998.
Larson, Lars Bang. Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark, Kassel: Museum
Fridericianum, 1998.
Roberts, Catsou. "Between Documentation and Drama", Artpress , No.232, February, 1998
Taubin, Amy. "Love and Death, 1997’s Top Ten Films",The Village Voice, New York, January 6, 1997.

1997
Anderson, John. "’New Films’ Series Takes Manhattan", Newsday, March 21, 1997.
Maslin, Janet. "Quiet Desperation, Then Decisions, Decisions", The New York Times, March 29, 1997.
Taubin, Amy. "Worlds Apart", The Village Voice, March 25, 1997.

1996
Gilliam, Leah. "Eraser Vols. 9&10", New Histories, catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.