MATTHEW PILLSBURY BIOGRAPHY

            Matthew Pillsbury

 


Born:             American; b. Neuilly, France, 1973

Lives:                        New York, NY

 

Education:

 

2004   School of Visual Arts, New York, New York, Master of Fine Arts

1995   Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut,

                        Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art

 Received cum laude with distinction in the major.

            1991   École Alsacienne, Paris, France

                       Baccalaureate in History and Economics, June 1991.

                       Received with honors.

 

Solo Exhibitions:

2009   "Matthew Pillsbury: Elapsed," Galerie Wouter can Leeuwen, Amsterdam

                      "Screen Lives," Alcatel Exhibition, Paris

                      "An American in the City of Light: Paris as Seen by Matthew Pillsbury," The French Institute Alliance Française, New York, NY

            2008   "Matthew Pillsbury", Douglas Udell Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

                      "Elapsed"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC

                        "Matthew Pillsbury";  Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

2007   "London"; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, England

          "Time Frame";  Phillips de Pury Gallery, New York, NY

                       "Time Frame"; La Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France

                       "Time Frame"; Galerie le Reverbere, Lyon, France

           "Time Frame"; El Teatro Circo Price, Madrid Spain

           "Matthew Pillsbury: Screen Lives"  M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006   "Matthew Pillsbury", Galerie Negulesco, Munich, Germany

                       "Time Frame", Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY

            2005   "Screen Lives" Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy

           "Screen Lives", Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, BC

           "Hours", Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

            2004   "Screen Lives", Michael Hoppen, London, England, UK

                       "Screen Lives", Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

           "Screen Lives", Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY

 

 

Group Exhibitions

            2008   "Through the Looking Glass"; Glenbow Museum of Art, Calgary, Canada

                        "Keeping Time:  Cycle and Duration in Contemporary Photography";

                        The Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA

                        "Interiors"; Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen, Belgium

"Isn't It Romantic"; KMR Arts, Washington, CT

2007   "Evolution"; Photo Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China      

"A New Reality: Black and White Photography in Contemporary Art

                        from the Arthur and Ann Goldstein Collection";  Jane Voorhees

            Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

                        "Degrees of Separation- A Portrait Show";  PEER Gallery, New York, NY

                        "Mystery:  Photography and Video"; Frederieke Taylor

                        Gallery, New York, NY       

                        "The Sir Elton John Photography Collection";  Pinchuk

                        Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine

                         "Photographies Contemporaines:  les Lauréats de la Fondation

              HSBC pour la Photographie";  Les Recontres d'Arles, Arles, France

            "Participating in Exposure"; Douglas Udell Gallery, Calgary, Canada

                        "Ingenuity - Photography and Engineering 1846-2006"  Calouste

                        Gulbenkain Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

                     "The City Through the Lens"; Miller-Block Gallery, Boston, MA

                       "Making and Finding"; The Foundation To-Life, Mount Kisco, NY

                       "The Hearst Tower Art Portfolio";  The Hearst Building Gallery,

                       New York, NY

                       "Ingenuity - Photography and Engineering 1846-2006"  

                        BOZAR Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

            Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA

"Die Liebe zum Licht", Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany

2006   "20/30 Vision: An Anniversary Celebration"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY

           

            "Under the Influence: The Photographic Homage", Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

            

            "Die Liebe zum Licht", Kunstmuseum Celle, Celle, Germany


"Harkening to a Muse" Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada


"Die Liebe zum Licht"  Staedtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst, Germany

                        "Vancouver 20 Years:  A Celebration Group Show"; Douglas

                         Udell Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada

Temples of Knowledge and Culture", Shorenstein LLC, New York NY

                        "Joint Venture"; Pence Gallery, University of California, Davis CA

                        "New Art. New York:  Reflections of the Human Condition", Hangar 7, Salzburg, Austria

2005   "On View: Photographing the Museum", Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC

                        "New Art. New York:  Reflections of the Human Condition",

                        Trierenberg AG Gallery, Traun, Austria

             "Contemporary Group Show", Michael Hoppen Gallery, London UK

                        "20 Year Anniversary Exhibition", Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH

            2004   "Fifty-Seven on Fifty Seventh;  Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY

                        "Crossroads of Desire: 100 Years of Times Square", AXA Gallery, NYC

 

Collections:

         The Tate Modern, London, England

         The Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University,  New Haven, CT

         The Glenow Art Museum, Calgary, Canada

         The Natural History Museum, London, England

         The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

         Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie, Paris, France      

         The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England

         The Library of Congress, Washington DC

         Hallmark Photographic Collection, Kansas City, MO

         Citibank Collection, New York, NY

         Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

         Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH

         High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

         International Center of Photography, New York, NY

         Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA      

         Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY     

         The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

         Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

         Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

         San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

         Santa Barbara Museum of Art,  Santa Barbara, CA

         Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

         Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson Collection, New York, NY   

         JGS/Stein Collection, New York, NY         

         Sir Elton John Photography Collection, Atlanta, GA

         Grover Collection, Hartford, CT

         Pfizer, New York, NY

         CIBC Collection, NY

         The Carol and Arthur Goldberg Foundation, NY

        

Monograph:

Time Frame; Matthew Pillsbury  (Essay by Alain Sayag)

(2007 Actes Sud) Hardbound 94 plates

 

Publications:

"Goings on About Town: Matthew Pillsbury", The New Yorker, April, 2009

"Keeping Time: Cycle and Duration in Contemporary Photography"; In the Loupe             

Photographic Resource Center, Vol. 33, No 1, Dec/ Jan/ February 2008/2009

"Photography : Matthew Pillsbury Exhibition Review"; The New York Sun , Monday April 21 2008

"Une Nuit au Poste"; Liberation (France) 12 March 2008

            To Vima (Greece), January  6, 2008

            "What's Developing: Matthew Pillsbury"; Black & White Magazine,

            Issue 55, December 2007

            "La 6ieme Crise de la Ve" Le Monde, October 2007 (France)

            "Matthew Pillsbury at the Micahel Hoppen Gallery"; Professional Photographer,

            September 2007 (UK)

            "Guide Expos: Matthew Pillsbury"; L'Express, September 6, 2007 (France)

            "Idea Lab:  Home Alone"; The New York Times Magazine,

            Sunday, June 17, 2007

            "Ingenuity - Photography and Engineering 1846-2006"  Exhibition Catalog, 2007

            "PhotoEspaña Viaja al sur de la Ciudad"; ABC, June 2, 2007, (Spain)

            "PhotoEspaña llega a su madurez"  El Nuevo Lunes,

            May 25, 2007, (Spain)

            "De la Oscuridad a la Luz" M2, June 1, 2007 (Spain)

            "Art+Auction"; March 2007

            "Light Moves; Matthew Pillsbury Screen Lives"; Los Angeles

            Magazine,  February 2007

            "Glow: Photographs by Matthew Pillsbury"; LA Weekly, February, 14, 2007

"Fuzzy Photos Make Strong Images"; Exhibition review by Sharon Mitoz:

WIRED News, January 30, 2007

"Matthew Pillsbury: Screen Lives" ; PhotoNews  Zeitung Fur Fotographie

December – January 2006/2007 (Germany)

"Paris Photo:  Plus Nord  Que Sud"; Art Actuelle: Magazine des Arts

Contemporains, #47 Novembre-Decembre 2006 (France)

"Die Liebe zum Licht: Fotografie im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert;" Bettina Maassen and Hartmut Neumann, W. Peipers & Co., Cologne, 2006

"Matthew Pillsbury at Bonni Benrubi", Review by Edward Leffingwell Art in America, October 2006  

"Times Under Seige" New York Magazine, September 18th, 2006

"Can Bloggers Get Real?", New York Times Magazine, May 28, 2006

            "Valentina Moncada" Architecture Digest, Italy, July 2006

            "About Town; Matthew Pillsbury", exhibition review by Vince Aletti,

            The New Yorker, May 22, 2006

"Riapre la Galleria Valentina Moncada a Roma" Tourismo Magazine, Italia, Gennaio 2006

            "Matthew Pillsbury" Informatissima Fotografia, Italia, 2006

"Matthew Pillsbury – Screen Lives" Roma Cultura Mensile di Immagini, Roma, IT, 2006

"Matthew Pillsbury – Screen Lives" Extrart, Roma, 2006

Cultframe, Roma, 2006

"One People, Screen Lives, Breve storia della luce" Sguardi, Italia, 2006

"Screen Lives- Matthew Pillsbury" Teknemedia, Italia, 2006

"Matthew Pillsbury – Screen Lives [mostra fotografica]" Il Giornale Roma, 22 marzo, Italia, 2006


"Screen Lives" Gentlemen, Italia, marzo, 2006


"Esposizioni" Fotografia Reflex, Italia, marzo, 2006


"Passaggio in galleria" Informazione e Stampa, Italia, marzo, 2006


"Lazio" Il Fotografo, Italia, marzo 2006


"Alla galleria Moncada I set fotografici di Matthew Pillsbury"Il Giornale Roma, 5 marzo, Italia, 2006


"Pillsbury, l'isolamento in bianco e nero" Il Messaggero, Roma, IT, 24 febbraio, 2006


Amica, febbraio, 2006


"L'omone, La Cina e Valentina", Il Giornale dell'Arte, Italia, febbraio, 2006


"Screen Lives", Metro, Roma, IT, 23 febbraio, 2006


"New York in pellicola, Germania in acrilico" XL n.2, Italia, febbraio, 2006


Arte, Italia, febbraio, 2006


"Matthew Pillsbury. Screen Lives [mostra fotografica]" Il Giornale Roma, Italia, 20 febbraio, 2006


"Matthew Pillsbury" Telesport, 19 febbraio 2006


"Screen Lives de Matthew Pillsbury", Il Giornale Roma, Italia,15 febbraio, 2006


"Fotografia: Screen Lives" Metro, Roma, Italia, 14 febbraio, 2006


""Screen Lives" romac'e, Roma, Italia, 14 febbraio


"Una galleria <>" Il Giornale Roma, Italia,13 febbraio, 2006

            "From Another Angle", The Sacramento Bee, February 12, 2006

"Tra fragile, colori e intellettuali nel loft l'arte profuma di America" Il Messaggero, Roma, Italia, 10 febbraio, 2006


"Il dinosaura va al museo nelle foto d'arte di Pillsbury" La Repubblica, Roma, Italia, 10 febbraio, 2006


"Matthew Pillsbury- Save the Date" Il Giornale Roma, IT, 8 febbraio, 2006


"Matthew Pillsbury e le macchie umane in interni newyorchesi" City Roma, Italia, 8 febbraio, 2006


"Malinconie in bianco e nero alla Galleria Moncada" Il Manifesto, Roma, Italia, 8 febbraio, 2006


"Riapre la galleria Moncada con le foto di Pillsbury" Corriere Della Sera Roma, Italia, 8 febbraio, 2006


"Dalla Materia All'idea: Screen Lives di Matthew Pillsbury" romac'e, Roma, Italia, 8 febbraio


"La prima di Pillsbury" Il Riformista, Roma, Italia, 6 febbraio, 2006


"Schermi ipnotici" Carta n.8, 27 febbraio – 5 marzo, 2006


"Screen Lives" News, Roma, Italia, 8 febbraio, 2006


"Moncada" Internazionale n. 627, Roma, Italia, 3 febbraio, 2006


"Matthew Pillsbury. Screen Lives" Il Venerdi di Repubblica, 3 febbraio, 2006


"Matthew Pillsbury" TrovaRoma- La Republica 2/8 febbraio 2006

           "Joint Venture: Contemporary and Vintage Photography" exhibition catalog; University of California, 2006

            "Mathew Pillsbury: Fire"; Wit Binnenlanschap, de Volkskrant

            31 December 2005 (Netherlands)

            "Watching the Watchers: Arts & Culture"; Yale Alumni Magazine, July/August 2005

            "PDN's 30 emerging photographers to watch" Photo District News, March 2005 "

            20 Year Anniversary" exhibition Catalog, Hood Museum of Art,

"Exhibition Review" Art Paper, Atlanta May 2005

 "Condensing the Classics" House Beautiful, January 2005

 "Investing in Photography" Money Week, December 3, 2004

"Matthew Pillsbury: Screen Lives" Interview by Kev Rice & Dave Smith;     

"Matthew Pillsbury"; foto Pozytyw; nr:67grudzie  December 2004, Poland

Exhibition Review" The Metro, London, November 2004

"What's on" The Art Newspaper, November 2004

Art & Auction, November 2004

Eyemazing Magazine, interview, Winter 2004

NextLevel Magazine ,Edition 02/Volume 03, 2004

            "Matthew Pillsbury" Exhibition Review. The Edmonton Journal, Edmonton,

Alberta, Canada, November 14th, 2004

"Exhibition Preview" Photo Italia, November 2004

Marie Claire (Italian edition), November 2004

Foto8 Magazine, London, November 2004

Leica Photografie International, November 2004

            French PHOTO, November 2004

Image Magazine, November 2004

"Critics' Choice "; The Sunday Telegraph, London -31st October 2004

"Exhibition preview" The Guardian Guide, London, October, 30th 2004

 "Viewfinder" Review by Benjamin Secher. London Telegraph,November 6, 2004

"After Hours" a portfolio of NYC museums at night: Matthew Pillsbury";

 The New York Times Magazine, October 24, 2004

            "Television Fantasma: Matthew Pillsbury" Etiqueta Negra.

            Numero 16, 2004 (Peru)

"Show World:  Matthew Pillsbury"; Review by Vince Aletti, The Village Voice; July 7-13, 2004

"Directors Cut:  Matthew Pillsbury" by Ellen Harris; Aperture.org

"Art" Exhibition review, The New York Sun; Tuesday, July 6th, 2004

Wired Magazine, May 2004

            Photograph for the cover of Calvin Trillin's 

Tales from The Tummy Trilogy, HighBridge, 2000

Desir. Paris, France. Barcelona, Spain. 1997

Institute of Child and Adolescent Development

Therapeutic Garden, 1994-1995

Landscape Architecture, October 1994

 

Awards:

            2007 Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie

PDN Magazine's Top 30 Photographers of 2005

Bonni Benrubi Gallery
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