Matt Connors
"Untitled", 2024
Colored pencil on paper
13 ⅜ x 9 ½ inches (34 x 24.1 cm)
Framed: 22 3/8 x 16 5/8 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and Ortuzar Projects, New York

Selected by Peter Eleey

Matt Connors received a B.F.A. from Bennington College, Vermont (1995) and an M.F.A. from Yale University, New Haven (2006). Earlier this year he was the subject of a solo exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA, Finding Aid, in which he placed his work in dialogue with that of twenty-two other artists. Connors was included in the Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept. Solo exhibitions include Tune, Herald Street, London (2023); Finder, the Modern Institute, Glasgow (2023); Body Forth (with Ryan Preciado), Canada, New York (2022); Swap, Xavier Hufkins, Brussels (2021); Impressionism, MoMA PS1, New York (2012); and Gas...Telephone...One Hundred Thousand Rubles, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (2011). His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas; and National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia, among others. Connors received a 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, was a 2015 Artist in Residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, and most recently, was awarded the Award of Merit Medal in Painting at the 2024 American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards.