Biography
1983 Born in Palisade, CO
Lives and Works in Athens, OH
Education
2007 Master of Fine Arts, Ceramics, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2023-24 Matt Wedel: Pictures in the Garden, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 25 October 2023 - 6 January 2024
2022-23 Matt Wedel and Gajin Fujita: New Work, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 16 November 2022 - 7 January 2023
Matt Wedel: Phenomenal Debris, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, 5 November 2022 2 April 2023 (catalogue)
2019 Matt Wedel: On the Verge, Louisiana State University (LSU) Museum of Art, 4 April - 29 September 2019; traveled to Wichita
Falls Museum of Art, Wichita Falls, TX
2018-19 Matt Wedel: Everything is everything, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 14 November 2018 - 5 January 2019
Matt Wedel, Skyroom, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 28 March - 25 May 2018
Matt Wedel, Skyroom, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 24 January - 4 March 2018
2017-18 Matt Wedel, The Fields at Omi International Art Center, Ghent, NY, 27 May 2017 - 30 December 2018
Matt Wedel, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 26 April - 24 June 2017
2016 Matt Wedel, Skyroom, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 13 July - 1 October 2016
2015 Matt Wedel: Peaceable Fruit, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 18 November - 30 December 2015 Matt Wedel, Erskine, Hall & Coe,
London, United Kingdom, 7 May - 3 June 2015
2014-15 Matt Wedel: Flower Tree, Skyroom, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 10 December 2014 - 31 January 2015
Matt Wedel: Portrait, Skyroom, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 13 March - 26 April 2014
2013 Matt Wedel: Sheep’s Head, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 11 April - 18 May 2013 2012
Matt Wedel, Skyroom, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 24 May - 30 June 2012
Matt Wedel: Figure, Skyroom, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 22 March - 12 May 2012
2010 Matt Wedel: Child flower tree landscape, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 7 July - 28 August 2010 Matt Wedel, Second Floor Marfa,
Marfa, Texas, Fall 2010
2009 Matt Wedel, Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 7 March 11 April 2009
2008 Matt Wedel: New Work, California State University, Long Beach, CA Polar bears, cat and landscape, Space Craft Studio, San
Diego, CA
2007 June in the fall, Werby / Gatov Gallery, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Child, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
La-vender Tree, Space Craft Studio, San Diego, CA
I’ve got wings on my mind, SCA Gallery, Pomona, CA
2005 My friend the orange guy, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
Select Group Exhibitions
2023 Faint, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI, 24 June - 19 August 2023
The Flower Show, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 7 June - 1 September 2023 (catalogue)
2022 Ex-tend Ex-cess, Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University, Towson, MD, 26 August 10 December 2022
Sculpture, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 11 May - 2 September 2022
In The Round, Unit London, Hanover, London, 23 March - 21 April 2022
2021 It Might Not Be Here When You Wake Up: Eleanor, Abner, and Matt Wedel, Trisolini Art
Gallery, Baker University Center, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 2 November - 29 November 2021
Environmental Reflections: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art
Foundation, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 1 September - 5 December 2021
Magic Dance, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 9 March - 1 May 2021
Earth Transformed: Ceramic Artists Invitational, Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, OH, 1 March - 2 April 2021
A Mark Extended, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI, 26 February - 17 April 2021
2020-21 45 at 45: L.A. Louver Celebrates 45 Years with 45 Artists, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 20 October 2020 - 16 January 2021
2019 Particle and Wave: PaperClay Illuminated, Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics
Research Center, Tempe, AZ, 22 June - 21 September 2019; traveled to Daum Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO 12 Oct - 15 Dec 2019; Nora Eccles Museum of Art, Logan, UT 25 January - 2 May 2020; Hold -
Redline Gallery, Denver, CO May - August, 2020; The
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA 8 Sep 2020 - 15 April 2021; Holter Museum of Art,
Helena, MT 1 May - 30 July 2021; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho 15 Aug - 13 Oct 2021
Ceramic Momentum, CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art, Middelfart, Denmark, 10 May - 3 November 2019
Group Show, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 1 May - 8 June 2019
Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK, 26 February - 21 March 2019
2018-19 The Incongruous Body, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA, 11 August 2018 20 January 2019
Evolver, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 20 June - 17 August 2018
Melting Point: Movements in Contemporary Clay, CAFAM, Los Angeles, CA, 28 January 6 May 2018
2017-18 C’est le Bouquet! Quand les Fleurs Inspirent la Céramique, Fondation d’Enterprise Bernardaud, Limoges, France, 23 June 2017
- 24 February 2018
On the Road: American Abstraction, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI, 18 March - 29 April 2017
2016-17 Abundant, Bountiful, & Beautiful, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, 10 November 2016 - 19 March 2017
Group Show, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 11 October 2016 - 5 November 2015
Fired Up: Monumental Clay, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, 18 June - 28 August 2016
LA Today, curated by Carl Schlosberg, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, CA, 22 May - 26 June 2016
Contemporary Ceramics, Lincoln Center for the Performing and Visual Arts, Fort Collins, CO
Visiting Artist Exhibition, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
2015 Summer Exhibition, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, United Kingdom, 11 August - 28 August 2015
Sculpture, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 27 May - 2 July 2015
Colors Defined, Cohen Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Environmental Impact: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
2013 Group Show, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 30 May - 6 July 2013
Lost Horizon: Landscape by Other Means: Works from the Permanent Collection, Saint
Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Elemental: Of the Earth, The Stuart Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, CA
Muck: Accumulations, Accretions and Conglomorations, curated by Peter Held, Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ
2012 Group Exhibition, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 6 September - 6 October 2012
Art 43 Basel, L.A. Louver, Basel, Switzerland, 14 June - 17 June 2012
Stone Gravy, curated by David Pagel, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY
2011 Loose Canon, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 13 October - 12 November 2011
Art 42 Basel, L.A. Louver, Basel, Switzerland, 15 June - 19 June 2011
Group Show, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 2 June - 9 July 2011
Group Show, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 28 April - 28 May 2011
Elements of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, FL
Pieceable Kingdom, Beacon Arts Building, Los Angeles, CA
67th Scripps Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, California, Winter 2011
2010 Salon 5, Marine, Santa Monica, CA
2009 Group Show, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 1 October - 7 November 2009
A View from the Atlantic, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 18 September 2009 - 5 May 2013
Rogue Wave, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 16 July - 19 September 2009
2008 Lingua Franca, Ellis Armory, Pittsburgh, PA
GSE, 301 Pine Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Projection, Salon Oblique, Venice, CA
2007 Art Auction 12, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
Underworld, Salon Oblique, Venice, CA
Meltdown, Salon Oblique, Venice, CA
Insights, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
Fully Studded, Salon Oblique, Venice, CA
The Evva S. Vale Memorial Exhibition, The Barbara and Ray Alpert Jewish Community Center, Long Beach, CA
LA’s Insurgents, San Oblique, Venice, CA
2006 Wondergems, Loyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago, IL
Insights, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
Enigma...Healing...Revelation, Union Art Space, Santa Ana, CA
Commissions
2015 Century City Sculpture, organized by the Sculpture Committee of the Century City
Chamber of Commerce Arts Council and the Century City Arts & Culture Foundation, The Hines Property, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Talks and Lectures
2023 Artist talk, Honolulu Museum of Art, Doris Duke Theater, Honolulu, HI, March 4th
Public Workshop, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, March 31st
2020 Artist talk, University of Notre Dame, Department of Art, Art History & Design, Notre Dame, IN, February 26
2019 Artist talk: On The Verge, Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Wichita Falls, TX, October 24 Workshop and Artist Lecture,
Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO, June 24 - July 6
Symposium: Ceramic Momentum - Staging the Object, CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art, Middelfart, Denmark, May 10
Artist talk, opening of Matt Wedel: On the Verge, LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA, April 4
5th Annual Florida Heat Surface Workshop, Morean Center for Clay, Saint Petersburg, FL, February 7
Windgate Visiting Artist Lecture, Arizona State University, Tempeh, AZ, January 24
Artist talk, Cleveland Institute of Art, Peter B Lewis Theater, Cleveland, OH, January 17
2019 Artist talk, University of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, September 25th
Artist talk, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, September 10th
2018 Artist talk, Contemporary Art Forum Lecture Series, Miami University, OH, February 15th
Artist talk, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Artist talk, Ohio University, Athens, OH
2017 Artist talk, Okland Community College, Oakland County, Michigan, IL
Artist talk, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Artist talk, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Artist talk, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine, August 10th
2015 Artist talk and workshop with Kristin Morgin, NCECA, Providence, RI
2014 Artist talk, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA, November 9th
Artist talk, Marjorie Barrick Museum, University of Nevada Los Vegas, September 18th
2013 Artist talk, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, October 18th
2012 Artist talk, School of the Art Institue of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Artist talk, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Teaching
2019 Clay Sculpture: large-scale systems, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2019 Visiting Artist, Louisiana State University (LSU) Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA
2012 Invited Artist, International Sculpture Intensive, Long Beach, CA 2011 Adjunct Faculty, University of Colorado, Boulder,
CO
2010 Adjunct Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2008-09 Assistant Professor of Ceramics, Nova Scotia College of Design, Halifax, NS, Canada
2007-08 Adjunct Faculty, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2007 Invited Artist, International Sculpture Intensive, Long Beach, CA
Collections
Honolulu Art Museum, Honolulu, HI
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Wichita Falls, TX
Clay Museum of Ceramic Art, Middelfart, Denmark
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Community Hospital, Pediatric Wing, Grand Junction, CO
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA
Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada