Matthew Griffin

Biography

Born Melbourne, 1976.

Education

1996 – 1998 

• Bachelor of Fine Art (painting), Victorian College of the Arts

1995

• Bachelor of Fine Arts (first year), University of Ballarat

1994

• Advanced Certificate of Art and Design (first year) Loddon Campaspe TAFE

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007

• We Get Tricks, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• Per Diem, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
• TTOMMORROWW WILL BE DIFFERENT, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Re: is this still on, Gambia Castle, Auckland, New Zealand

2006

• Chinese Democracy, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2005

• Das Bogus Journey, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
• Chivalrous Romances, Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome

2004

• Disappointment Now, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• Exhume 2Pac/Free Burzum, Dudespace, Melbourne

2003

• Livin LaVida Lowcash, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• The Glass Casket, 24/Seven, Melbourne

2002

• The Double Chamber, 1st Floor, Melbourme

2000

• Small Town Boy, TCB art inc., Melbourne
• Hungover, Grey Area Studios, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008

• Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London
• Looking Out, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
• Revolving Doors: an exhibition in memory of Blair Trethowan, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2007

• End of Year Show, (gloss enamel) Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• Relentless Optimism, curated by Mark Feary, Carlton Hotel and Studios, Melbourne

2006

• Primavera, MCA, Sydney
• HIGH TIDE: Currents in Contemporary Australian Art, Zakheta National Gallery of Art, Poland, and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
• Big in Japan, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
• This Thing I thought Would Never Come, Bus, Melbourne
• Selecta, West Space, Melbourne
• Someone Shows Something To Someone, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
• Business as Unusual, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2005

• Matthew Griffin, Neil Whitacre, Steven Shearer & Emi Okubo, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
• PrintROOM, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
• The Australian Show, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste
• The Beast With Three Backs, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
• C’town Bling, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
• Family First, curated by Mark Feary, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
• Drawn Out, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
• Merde On The Dancefloor, (curated) MIR11, Melbourne
• Risk, Kings ARI, Melbourne
• Team Show, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2004

• Satellite Cities and Tabloid Life, Monash Museum of Art, Melbourne
• Specimens, The Old ACCA, Melbourne
• All Summer Been Lovin, Dudespace, Melbourne

2003

• Something Something Video Something, curated by Jarrod Rawlins, Artspace, Sydney
• Painting the Roses Red, Gallery Wren, Sydney
• Not the Block Show, House, Melbourne
• The Beetles, GBK, Sydney
• Bong On, Bus, Melbourne

2002

• Neo Noir, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
• Long Player, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• Something Something Video Something, curated by Jarrod Rawlins, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• Team Show, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2001

• Family Romance, 1st Floor, Melbourne/ Rubyare, Sydney
• Love & Other Abstract Things, Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne
• Hotrod Tea Room, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
• Sample, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
• Tougher Than Art, 1st Floor, Melbourne
• Don’t Have to Sell My Soul, He’s Already In Me, Grey Area Studios, Melbourne
• Paintings Are Ace, Linden Gallery, Melbourne

1999

• Who’s Afraid of the Avant Garde? Who Cares, TCB art inc., Melbourne

Publications

2007 

• 'TTOMMORROWW WILL BE DIFFERENT', 24 pages, 18 x 13 cm

2005 

• ‘Das Bogus Journey’, 20 pages, 15 x 21 cm
• ‘Merde on the Dancefloor’, 16 pages, 9 x 6 cm
• ‘Slave Bootleg’, 16 pages, 7 x 7 cm

2004 

• ‘We were the World’, 24 pages, 10 x 13 cm
• ‘All Eyez’, 24 pages, 10 x 13cm

2003 

• ‘Compton’, 24 pages, 13 x 10 cm
• ‘Long Player’, 24 pages, 10 x 13 cm

2001 

• ‘Love and Other Abstract Things’, 24 pages, 10 x 14 cm
• ‘Soy Bomb’, 24 pages, 10 x 14 cm

2000 

• ‘Why This Town’, 20 pages, 10 x 14 cm

Selected Bibliography

2007

• Edward Colless, 'Punk'd', Australian Art Collector, issue 42, October–December 2007.
• Ashley Crawford, ‘Oz Dutch Darkly’, The Sunday Age, 20 August 2006, p. 25.
•  Björn Deluze, 'The Waiting Is The Hardest Part', catalogue essay, Relentless Optimism, Carlton Hotel and Studios, 2007, pp. 36–7.
• Saige Walton, 'Gestures to Nowhere', catalogue essay, Per Diem, Studio 12 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, 2007.

2006

• Magda Kardasz, ‘Upside Down ’, High Tide, catalogue essay, 2006.
• Darren Sylvester, ‘Selecta’, catalouge essay, 2006.

2005

• Lilly Hibberd, ‘The Griffin Conundrum’, Un Magazine, Issue 3, 2005, pp. 20–1.
• Anne Loxley, ‘C’town Bling’, catalogue essay, 2005.
• B.L. Magner, ‘Merde on the Dance Floor’, Natural Selection, issue 4, 2005.
• Hannah Mathews, ‘Drawn Out’, catalogue essay, 2005.
• Lyndal Walker, ‘Getting In Touch With My Inner Adolesant’, Is Not Magazine, 2005.
  

2004

• Ashley Crawford, ‘Matthew Griffin: Disappointment Now’, The Age, 21 November 2004, pp. 34–5.
• Matthew Griffin, ‘Self Portrait’, Tema Celeste, issue 105, sept/oct 2004, pp. 84–5.
• Charlotte Hallows, ‘Satellite Cities & Tabloid Life’, catalogue essay, 2004.

2003

• Lucinda Strahan, ‘Lowcash Shows Rich Talent’, The Age, May 8 2003, p. 10.

2002

• Mark Feary, ‘Neo Noir’, catalogue essay, 2002.
• Simon Rees, ‘Matt Griffin at 1st Floor’, Flash Art, Vol XXXIV, no. 226, October 2002, p. 45.

2001

• Holcroft, 2001: Julian Holcroft, ‘Tougher Than Art’, Eyeline, Issue 45, Winter/Autumn 2001, p. 45.
• HOTROD, artist pages, issue 12, 2001, cover + 4 pages, (not paginated)
• Tristian Koenig, ‘Sample’, catalogue essay, 2001

2000

• Thomas Deverall, ‘Why This Town’, catalogue essay, 2000.
• RUBIK, artist pages, issue 13, 2000 (not paginated)

Awards and Prizes

2007 – 2008 

• Gertrude Street Studio Artist