Matthew Couper

Born Aotearoa/New Zealand 1976, Lives and works in the USA

 

SELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

 

2022

Isolation Paintings, Millennium Art Gallery, Blenheim, NZ (solo)

 

2021

Isolation Paintings, Aigantighe Art Museum, Timaru, NZ (solo)

Every Artist, City Gallery Wellington | Te Whare Toi, NZ

TANCHÉE RACINE, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, FR

 

2020

Isolation Paintings, Tauranga Art Gallery, NZ (solo)

Excerpts: Works from the Collection, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV USA

 

2019

Pentamerous, Yucca Valley Arts Center, California, USA

 

2018

From Dust to Water, Nevada Arts Council, Carson City, NV, USA (solo)

The Blake Prize, Casula Power House Art Gallery, Sydney, AUST

Disruptions, Museum of Qoricancha, Cusco, PERU

 

2017

Zoo Cryptage, Musée Crypte Sainte-Eugénie, Biarritz, FR

Tilting the Basin: Contemporary Art of Nevada, Las Vegas Art Museum, USA

 

2016
Tilting the Basin: Contemporary Art of Nevada, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA

IMAGETEXTE 4, Topographie De L’Art, Paris, FR

Vignette - 30 Years at Tylee Cottage 1986 - 2016Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, NZ

 

2014
Monkey See, Tabla Rasa, Brooklyn, NYC, USA

‘Scape, Whakatane Art Museum, Whakatane, NZ

MAS Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

London Biennale Pollination in Las Vegas, multiple venues, Las Vegas, USA

AES+F: Last Riot and other contemporary works from the collection of Dr. Dick Quan, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, AU

Public/Private: Images of Devotion from 19th and Early 20th Century Mexico, Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA

 

2013
Valley of the Dry Bones, OXS Gallery, Carson City, USA (solo)

Recent Devotional Paintings, Quad Gallery, Riverside, USA (solo)

Thirty-Three, Tauranga Art Gallery; Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru; Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton; Tairawhiti Museum, Gisborne; Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore; Te Manawa, Palmerston North and Hastings City Art Gallery, NZ (solo)

Make Do & Mend, Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei, NZ

 

2012

Primal Streams, O’Sullivan Art Gallery, Regis University, Denver, CO, USA

 

2010

Credo And Quest: A Survey of Religion and Spirituality in NZ Art, Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei, NZ

 

2009

The Captain, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga, NZ

Thrill Me Every Day: The Celia Dunlop Collection. The New Dowse, Lower Hutt, NZ

Mind Games: Surrealism in Aotearoa, Hastings City Art Gallery, NZ

 

2008        

The Adam National Portrait Award. National Portrait Gallery, Shed 11, Queens Wharf, Wellington, NZ

 

2007        

Tylee Cottage: 21 Years, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui

Real Art Roadshow Exhibition. Mahara Gallery, Waikanae

 

2006        

The Art Event. Christchurch Art Gallery

Tiki Tour: Celebrating the Emblematic Koru and Te Hei Tiki. Whangarei Art Museum      

Te Hue Ipu - Artifact and Artwork. Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture, Porirua

Birds. Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui and Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture, Porirua

Prologue: The Matthew Couper & Jo Russ Collection. Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui

Her Majesty’s Pleasure. Objectspace, Auckland

 

2005        

The Koru Club. Pataka Art Gallery and Museum, Porirua

 

2004

ROSL Scholarship Exhibition Jerwood Space, London, UK

Fresh Brew Mahara Gallery, Waikanae

Enjoy Presents…Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington

Henry Sarjeant’s Fine Art Department Store Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui

 

2003        

It’s a Small World. Pataka Art Gallery and Museum, Porirua

Enjoy Presents… High Street Project, Christchurch, Blue Oyster, Dunedin

                

2002

The Scale of Things. Mahara Gallery, Waikanae      

 

2001

Figuratively Speaking. Mahara Gallery, Waikanae

 

1999

The James Wallace/ Visa Gold Art Awards. James Wallace Gallery, Auckland

There’s Something Going On. Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui

 

1998        

The Visa Gold Art Awards, New Gallery, Auckland. The Exchange, Wellington. The Robert McDougall Art Annex, Christchurch

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

Isolation Paintings, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, NZ

 

2021

Isolation Paintings, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, NZ

 

2019

In Memory of Water, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Bone Index, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, NZ

 

2018

From Dust to Water, Nevada Arts Council, Carson City, NV, USA

 

2017

From Dust to Water, RISE Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, USA

 

2016
In Memory Of Water, Room, Brooklyn, USA
Salon Of Desert Martyrs,Zoya Tommy, Houston, USA

 

2015
Au Pair, Galerie Gimpel + Muller, Paris, FR

Nosferatu and the Spider Woman (with JK Russ), PAULNACHE, Gisborne, NZ

 

2014
HORROR VACUI!, Winchester Cultural Center, Las Vegas, USA

BLACK SQUARE / BLACK SQUARE / BLACK FLAG, Small Works, Brisbane, AU

Limbo of the Journeyman, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, NZ

 

2013
Valley of the Dry Bones, OXS Gallery, Carson City, USA

Recent Devotional Paintings (curated by John Seed), Quad Gallery, Riverside, USA

Thirty-Three, Tauranga Art Gallery; Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru; Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton; Tairawhiti Museum, Gisborne; Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore; Te Manawa, Palmerston North and Hastings City Art Gallery, NZ

 

2012

Firmamentation (with JK Russ), SmallWorks, Brisbane, AU

Guns and Skulls (with Charles Krafft), Zoya Tommy Contemporary, Houston, USA

Public and Private Battles, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, NZ

 

2011
Rites in the Meadows, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, NZ

New Work, Brooklyn, DUBart, Brooklyn, USA

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

A la Racine, Biennale of Art and Culture d’ Aix en-Provence, FR

Bunny Yeager and her Circle, The ​Betsy​, ​Miami, USA

 

2021

Every Artist, City Gallery, Wellington, NZ

Paradise Lost, Revolution Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA

TANCHÉE RACINE, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France

 

2020

Excerpts: Works from the Collection, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV USA

Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, CarriageWorks, Sydney, Aust.

 

2019

Pentamerous, Yucca Valley Arts Center, California, USA

Ex-Voto, Lisa Derrick Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

2018

Passing Strange, Room Artspace, Brooklyn, NYC

The Blake Prize, Casula Power House Art Gallery, Sydney, AUST

Disruptions, Museum of Qoricancha, Cusco, Peru

 

2017
Zoo Cryptage, Musée Crypte Sainte-Eugénie, Biarritz, FR

Tilting the Basin: Contemporary Art of Nevada, Las Vegas Art Museum, USA

Karlsruhe Art Fair, Karlsruhe, DE 

Laluzapalooza 2017La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

 

2016

Tilting the Basin: Contemporary Art of Nevada, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA

IMAGETEXTE 4, Topographie De L’Art, Paris, FR

Vignette - 30 Years at Tylee Cottage 1986 - 2016Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, NZ

Bos † Taurerewa † Couper † Lee, PAULNACHE, New Zealand, NZ

 

2015        

Six Artists / Las Vegas, Mesquite Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Sydney Contemporary, Sydney, AUST

29th Laluzapalooza, La Luz De Jesus, Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

2014

Monkey See, Tabla Rasa, Brooklyn, NYC, USA

‘Scape, Whakatane Art Museum, Whakatane, NZ

Life Is Beautiful, Western Hotel, Downtown Las Vegas, NV, USA

MAS Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, USA

London Biennale Pollination in Las Vegas (co-curated withJevijoe Vitug), multiple venues, Las Vegas, USA

AES+F: Last Riot and other contemporary works from the collection of Dr. Dick Quan, BRAG, Bathurst, AU

Public/Private: Images of Devotion from 19th and Early 20th Century Mexico, Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA

 

2013

Sampler : Las Vegas, Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Make Do & Mend, Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei, NZ

The Artist As Peasant, Auckland Art Fair, Auckland, NZ (PAULNACHE)

Troll Im Dachgeschoss, Bucker Project Space, Berlin, DE

Art Fair Philippines, Makati City, PH (Light & Space Contemporary)

 

2011

Everything But The Kitschen Sync, Vol XVI, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Beyond The Sacred, Sacred Machine, Tucson, USA

Auckland Art Fair 2011, Auckland, Auckland, NZ

 

2012

Primal Streams, O’Sullivan Art Gallery, Regis University, Denver, CO, USA

Anti War - Anti Orgasm, Light & Space Contemporary, Manila, PH

Quantum Mysticism, Sacred Machine, Tucson, AZ, USA

 

2010

Away From Dios, Galeria CMTV, Barcelona, ES

Credo And Quest: A Survey of Religion and Spirituality in NZ Art, Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei, NZ

A Morris Graves Centenary Exhibition, Rock DeMent Gallery, Seattle, USA

 

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2018

Elsewhere Residency, Aeolian Acres, Paonia, CO, USA

 

2017

Idem Print Residency, Paris, FR

Arthemuse at Manoir du Bonhere, Normandy, FR

 

2016        

Arquetopia Artist in Residence,Puebla, Mexico

 

2006
Artist in Residence, Tylee Cottage, Whanganui, NZ

 

2003

Royal Overseas League Art Scholarship, UK

 

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Aigantighe Art Museum, NZ

Barrick Museum of Art, USA

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, AU

Bibliothèque nationale de France, FR

Cirque Du Soleil Collection, USA & CA

Idem Paris, FR

James Wallace Art Trust, NZ

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, NZ & IT

National Gallery of Australia, AU
Sarjeant Gallery, NZ

The Real Art Roadshow Collection, NZ

Te Papa Tongarewa, NZ