Untitled (the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete) 2007 acrylic on canvas
Lives and works in New York City
Born 1980 in Red Bank, New Jersey
Education
2002 BA, New School for Social Research, New York
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2009
Blanks, Templates, Undos, Redos, Lisa Cooley, New York
2007
Eric Angles, Matt Sheridan Smith, Cohan and Leslie, New York
Nowhere for Nothing (New York Stoop) (w/ Nikolas Gambaroff) Gavin Brown's @ Passerby, New York
Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2009
The Living and the Dead, curated by Darren Bader, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Evading Customs, curated by Lumi Tan and Peter J. Russo, Brown Gallery, London
My Summer Show, Curated by Cristina Delgado, Galerie Lelong, New York
Unaddressed Circumventions: Folds from a Failed Suicide, curated by Ajay Kurian, Gresham’s Ghost,
New York
According to Speculative Logic, Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington
Changing Light Bulbs in Thin Air, curated by Summer Guthery, CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art,
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Prose pour des Esseintes, Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland
FAX, curated by João Ribas and co-organized by iCI (Independent Curators International), The Drawing Center, New York
2008
Standard Sizes, curated by João Ribas, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Summer Screening: Clean Cut, programmed by Josh Klein, EAI, New York
Dark Fair, Swiss Institute, New York
Gut of the Quantifier, Lisa Cooley, New York
Cube Passerby, Gavin Brown’s @ Passerby, New York
e-flux video rental, e-Flux, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Video Program for untitled 2002 (he promised) 2002 by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Evas Arche und der Feminist (w/ Nikolas Gambaroff) Gavin Brown’s Upstairs, New York
2007
Pawnshop, E-Flux, New York
Video Program for Untitled (He Promised) 2002 by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Guggenheim Museum, New York
2006
Peace Tower 2006 at the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York
Other Projects
2007
Visionaire 53: Sound, Contributing Artist
2006
More Songs About Buildings and Food: A Recipe For Downtown, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council,
curated by Adam Kleinman
2005
Please do not turn off the radio if you would like to live well in the next 15 minutes, an 11-hour serial
radio drama, co-authored with Liz Linden and Rirkrit Tiravanija, broadcast from the Serpentine
Gallery, London (Catalog)
Bibliography
2009
Pulimood, Steve, “What Lies Beneath” Interview Magazine, 13 May
Dault, Julia, “Matt Sheridan Smith at Lisa Cooley” Akimbo: Akimblog, 21 May
Rosenberg, Karen, “Blanks, Templates, Undos, Redos” New York Times, 15 May
Russo, Peter J., “Matt Sheridan Smith at Lisa Cooley,” ARTCAT; zine.artcat.com, 15 May
Knight, Nicholas. “Matt Sheridan Smith, ‘Blanks, Templates, Undos, Redos,’ at Lisa Cooley,”
Eponanonymous; nicholasknight.net, April
Schwendener, Martha. “Canvasing the Neighborhood at Sunday, Jen Beckman, Janos Gat, Beyond”
The Village Voice, April
FAX, exhibition catalogue (forthcoming)
2008
Ribas, Joao and Matt Sheridan Smith. “You Kant Always Get What You Want,” Artlies, September
Velasco, David. Review: Eric Anglès, Matt Sheridan Smith. Artforum, February
Carlin, TJ. “Reviews: Standard Sizes”. Time Out New York, July 10th-16th
Sholis, Brian. “Critics’ Picks: ‘Gut of the Quantifier’”, Artforum.com, March
Neil, Jonathan T.D. Reviews Marathon, New York. ArtReview. February
2007
Chamberlain, Colby. Critic’s Picks: Eric Anglès, Matt Sheridan Smith, Artforum.com