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