Matthew Shain

b. in San Francisco

lives and works in San Francisco

EXHIBITIONS

2020

Un-Monuments, curated by Ksenia Nouril, PhD, Jensen Bryan Curator, The Print Center, Philadelphia (http://printcenter.org/unmakingmonuments/)

2019

Atlanta Biennial: A thousand tomorrows, curated by Daniel Fuller and Phillip March Jones, Atlanta Contemporary

!!!Public Art???Inquiries, Encounters, curated by Sydney O. Jenkins, Kresge Gallery of the Berrie Center at Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ (PDF)

2018

Louisiana Contemporary, presented by the Helis Foundation, curated by Courtney J. Martin, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at Dia Art Foundation; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans

sites of build up, sites to mine, curated by Kristine Thompson, Glassell Gallery, Shaw Center for the Arts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

Aperture Summer Open: The Way We Live Now, curated by Siobhán Bohnacker, Brendan Embser, Marvin Orellana and Antwaun Sargent, Aperture Foundation, New York

group show 57: New Psychedelics, curated by Roula Seikaly and Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation, http://hafny.org/group-show-57-new-psychedelics

Vessels of Mercy, Vessels of Wrath, curated by Srdjan Loncar, Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans

2016

Staring Problems, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans (solo)

2015

Means, Motive, Opportunity, The Front, New Orleans; curated by Lee Diegaard

2013

PhotoBOMB: The Front, New Orleans. Curated by Lee Diegaard and AnnieLaurie Erickson

2012

TRANSIENT STATES, SF Camerawork, San Francisco (juried show: Lisa Sutcliffe, Asst. Curator of Photography, SFMOMA)

Thank YouThank YouThank You: 2012 MFA Thesis Show, Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA

2011

What I Don’t See Can’t Hurt Me: The Aesthetics of Resistance, curated by Alysse Stepanian, PØST, Los Angeles: A Kamikaze Exhibition.

Other People’s Parties, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

2010

Strange Brew, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

I Got 5 On It, 31 Rausch St. Gallery, San Francisco

2007

The Chicago Project, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago

2005

Black Market Auction, Independent School of Art, San Francisco

En Masse: San Francisco Camerawork Members Show, San Francisco (juried show: Jack Hanley, Corey Keller, Trena Noval, Mabel Wilson.

COLLECTIONS

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Tomás Rivera Library, University of California, Riverside

PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

a new nothing (Collaboration with David Robert Elliott), 2022

American Geography, Published by SFMOMA, 2020

DER GREIF, Issue 13, Guest Editor: Penelope Umbrico, 2020

Vice.com, Instagram’s Boundary-Pushing Documentary Photographers by Jon Feinstein, August 2018

TIME, Aug.6 / Aug. 13, 2018

New York Magazine, July 23–August 5, 2018

group show 57: New Psychedelics, curated by Roula Seikaly and Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation, http://hafny.org/group-show-57-new-psychedelics

AIN'T – BAD Curator's Choice, September 20, 2017

Strant Magazine, Pictures Without Words VOL. 001, ISS. 002, 2017

The Last Billboard Project, curated by Jon Rubin, Pittsburgh, 2015

Hayden’s Ferry Review #41, Winter 2008

The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography, Humble Arts Foundation (2008)

Stop Smiling Magazine, Winter 2008

Independent School of Art, organized by Jon Rubin and Bob Linder (2005-2007)

AWARDS

2012

MFA Fellowship, University of California, Riverside, Gluck Foundation Fellowship
(Culver Center/Sweeney Gallery, Riverside, CA)

2011

Gluck Foundation Fellowship (Culver Center/Sweeney Gallery, Riverside, CA)

2010

Gluck Foundation Fellowship (UC Riverside Art Dept.)

2005

Nominated for the Windgate Fellowship

EDUCATION

2012

MFA, Visual Arts, UC Riverside

2005

BFA in Photography, California College of the Arts

2000

B.S. in Journalism, University of Colorado at Boulder

TEACHING

2017-18

Adjunct Faculty, Tulane University, Foundations of Photography

2016

Adjunct Faculty, Chaffey College, Introduction to Black & White Darkroom Photography

2013

Venice Arts, Photo II

2011

ARTSBlock/Gluck Arts Fellow, Portrait Profiles

2010

UC Riverside, Introduction to Adobe Photoshop

ARTSBlock/Gluck Arts Fellow, Shoot Yr Face: Portrait Studio

LECTURES

2011

UC Riverside, Advanced Photography, Inst: John Divola

UC Riverside, Contemporary Critical Issues in Art and Art Theory, Inst: Erika Suderberg

2010

UC Riverside, Intermediate Photography and Digital Technology, Inst: Amir Zaki

2009

UC Riverside, Contemporary Art and Practices, Inst: Charles Long

WORK

2014 - 2016

Artist Assistant and Project Manager for 2012 MacArthur Fellow, Uta Barth