Matthew Griffin
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Born in Bendigo, Australia, 1976
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia, BFA (1998)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
Fine Arts, Sydney, ‘Unchained Malady‘, Sydney, Australia
2020
Gertrude Contemporary (online), Missing Links, ‘Ballads’, Melbourne, Australia
Rushes, ‘Common Scents’, Melbourne, Australia
2018
Fine Arts, Sydney, ‘contemporaryary', Sydney, Australia
2017
Neon Parc, ‘DDesign’, Melbourne, Australia
2015
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2011
Hamish McKay Gallery, ‘Going Going Bye Gones’, Wellington, New Zealand
2009
Uplands Gallery, ‘Running Running Regards’, Melbourne, Australia
2007
Uplands Gallery, ‘We Get Tricks’, Melbourne, Australia
Gambia Castle, ‘RE: Is This Still On’, Auckland, New Zealand
The Physics Room, ‘Ttommorroww will be different’, Christchurch, New Zealand
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Studio 12, ‘Per Diem’, Melbourne, Australia
2006
Uplands Gallery, ‘Chinese Democracy’, Melbourne, Australia
2005
Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, ‘Das Bogus Journey’, Melbourne, Australia
Il Ponte Contemporanea, ‘Chivalrous Romances’, Rome, Italy
2004
Uplands Gallery, ‘Disappointment Now’, Melbourne, Australia
Exhume 2Pac/Free Burzum, Dudespace, Melbourne, Australia
2003
Uplands Gallery, ‘Livin LaVida Lowcash’, Melbourne, Australia
24/Seven, ‘The Glass Casket’, Melbourne, Australia
2002
1st Floor, ‘The Double Chamber’, Melbourne, Australia
2000
TCB Art Inc, ‘Small Town Boy’, Melbourne, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
Hazlehurst Arts Centre, ‘New South; Volume 2’, Sydney, Australia
2024
Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, ‘Image Fever’, Taipei, Taiwan
RMIT Gallery, ‘This Hideous Replica’, Melbourne, Australia
Murray Art Museum Albury, ‘Thresholds’, Albury, Australia
2023
The Dowse Art Museum, ‘Steamed Hams‘, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), ‘I mean, why aren't you looking over here?’, Melbourne, Australia
2021—2022
Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), ‘Unlearning Australia‘, Seoul, South Korea
2022
Michael Lett, ‘Hosting Fine Arts, Sydney‘, Auckland, New Zealand
2021
Adam Art Gallery, ‘Image Processors: Artists in the Medium – A Short History 1968–2020‘, Wellington, New Zealand
UQ Art Museum, ‘Conflict in My Outlook_Don’t Be Evil’, Brisbane, Australia
2020
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, ‘Anywhere but here’, Sydney, Australia
UQ Art Museum, ‘Conflict in My Outlook_We Met Online’, Brisbane, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales (online), ‘Hyper-linked’, Sydney, Australia
Murray Art Museum Albury, ’20:20’, Albury, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, ‘Cut It: Collage to Meme’, Brisbane, Australia
2019
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, ‘The Theatre is Lying’, Melbourne, Australia
2018
Darren Knight Gallery, ‘Good Manners’, Sydney, Australia
2017
Monash University Museum of Art, ‘The Humours’, Melbourne, Australia
Darren Knight Gallery, ‘Double A-Side’, Sydney, Australia
2014
Monash University Museum of Art, ‘Art As A Verb’, Melbourne, Australia
2013
Artspace, ‘The Financial Report’, Sydney, Australia
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, ‘In The Cut’, Melbourne, Australia
Monash University Museum of Art, ‘Reinventing The Wheel’, Melbourne, Australia
2009
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, ‘New 09’, Melbourne, Australia
Anna Schwartz Gallery, ‘Make A Scene’, Sydney, Australia
Margaret Lawrence Gallery, ‘Cock & Bull’, Melbourne, Australia
2008
The Hayward Gallery, ‘Laughing In A Foreign Language’, London, United Kingdom
Macquarie University Art Gallery, ‘Looking Back’, Sydney, Australia
CACSA, ‘Bad Brains’, Adelaide, Australia
2007
Carlton Hotel, ‘Relentless Optimism’, Melbourne, Australia
2006
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Primavera’, Sydney, Australia
National Gallery of Art; and Contemporary Art Centre, ‘HIGH TIDE: New Currents in Art from Australia and
New Zealand, Zakheta, Poland; Vilnius, Lithuania
Gallery Side 2, ‘Big in Japan’, Tokyo, Japan
The Physics Room, ‘Family First’, Christchurch, New Zealand
Bus, ‘This Thing I thought Would Never Come’, Melbourne, Australia
2005
Gallery Side 2, Matthew Griffin, Neil Whitacre, Steven Shearer & Emi Okubo, Tokyo, Japan
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, ‘PrintROOM’, Rotterdam, Netherlands
LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, ‘The Australian Show’, Trieste, Italy
RMIT Project Space, ‘The Beast With Three Backs’, Melbourne, Australia
Campbelltown Arts Centre, ‘C’town Bling’, Sydney, Australia
Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, ‘Family First’, Melbourne, Australia
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Drawn Out’, Perth, Australia
Kings ARI, ‘Risk’, Melbourne, Australia
Uplands Gallery, ‘Team Show’, Melbourne, Australia
2004
Monash University Museum of Art, ‘Satellite Cities and Tabloid Life’, Melbourne, Australia
2003
Artspace, ‘Something Something Video Something’, Sydney, Australia
Gallery Wren, ‘Painting the Roses Red’, Sydney, Australia
GBK, ‘The Beetles’, Sydney, Australia
Bus, ‘Bong On’, Melbourne, Australia
2002
200 Gertrude St, ‘Neo Noir’, Melbourne, Australia
Uplands Gallery, ‘Long Player’, Melbourne, Australia
2001
1st Floor; Rubyere; ‘Family Romance’, Sydney; Melbourne, Australia
Penthouse & Pavement, ‘Love & Other Abstract Things’, Melbourne, Australia
200 Gertrude St, ‘Hotrod Tea Room’, Melbourne, Australia
1st Floor, ‘Tougher Than Art’, Melbourne, Australia
Grey Area Studios, ‘Don’t Have to Sell My Soul, He’s Already In Me’, Melbourne, Australia
1999
TCB Art Inc, ‘Who’s Afraid of the Avant Garde? Who Cares’, Melbourne, Australia