Mathew Weir
Born 1977 in Ipswich, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
2002–2004
MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK
1996–1999
BA Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK
1995–1996
Foundation Studies, Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK
Collections
The British Museum, London
The Brown Collection, London
Flag Foundation, New York, USA
Graves Gallery, Museums Sheffield, UK
Olbricht Collection, Berlin, Germany
David Teiger Collection, New York, USA
Mario Testino, London, UK
Reydan Weiss Collection, Essen, Germany
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Awards
2013-2014
Artist in Residence, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
2004
Madame Tussauds Art Award
Stephenson Harwood Painting Purchase Prize
2003
Paule Vezelay Travel Award
2002
Stanley Smith Scholarship; Royal College of Art
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Two person exhibition. Glenn Brown and Mathew Weir, The Sight of Something, curated by Vanessa Boni, Freud Museum, London, UK. Accompanying catalogue with an essay by the psychoanalyst and writer Darian Leader
2022
The Beast at the End of the Rope, Knust x Kunz +, Munich
2020
Against the Irreversible, Farbvision, Berlin, Germany. With the accompanying essay ‘Making Friends with Horror’ by Matt Carey- Williams
2017
Mathew Weir: A Maze of Parts, Attercliffe™, Sheffield, UK
2013
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
2011
The Fractured Word, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
2009
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
2006
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2005
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
2004
Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024/2025
Miscellaneous Fact: a hypothesis in 26 letters, 5 equations and no answer (English Translation) curated by Nicolas Surlapierre and Vincent Lavoir, MAC VAL – Museum of Contemporary Art of Val-de-Marne, Paris, France. With Abigail Lane (catalogue)
2024
Episode I: Bump, Matt Carey-Williams at No.9 Cork Street, London, UK
Scene II: Bumps on Paper, Matt Carey-Williams, London, UK
2023/2024
Death and the Devil – The Fascination with Horror, curated by Westrey Page, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany. Exhibition touring to Hessisches Landsmuseum, Darmstadt (2024) and Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt (2024) (catalogue)
The Teardrop Explodes, Kunsthaus Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf, Germany
Abigail Lane, Heads & Tails (guest artist along with Glenn Brown and Gavin Turk as part of Abigail Lane’s solo exhibition, The Art Station, Suffolk, UK
Display of the triptych painting ‘and go into the dark again’ within the collection of The Graves Gallery, Museums Sheffield, UK
Mind and Materials, curated by Michael Roberts, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, UK
Cha, Brown Leaders & Makers Exist (BL&ME) Chelsea College of Art, Triangle Gallery, London, UK. With a publication supported by The University of the Arts, London (UAL)
2022/2023
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral – a collection of artist’ objects, curated by Annabel Dover & Karen Densham, The Art Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk, UK
2022
NATURE MORTE, Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition, Rowe Arts Gallery, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Listen (Benefitting The Listening Place, a London-based support for individuals struggling with suicidal thoughts and depression) Gunnersbury Park House, London, Uk
2020
Real Time, curated by Damien Roach, Seventeen Gallery, London, Uk
2019/2020
The Time is Now, Millennium Gallery, Museums Sheffield, UK
2019
FEELING CALLED LOVE, Collection of an Idiot, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany
Dark Lantern, Attercliffe™ curated by Paul Morrison, Knust Kunz Gallery, Munich, Germany
ART-TAP, Artists rugs, curated by Romina Guidelli, project realisation by Guido Orsini, Palazzo Merulana, Rome, Italy
2018
Heads Roll, Graves Gallery, Museums Sheffield, UK
Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking, Attercliffe™, Sheffield, UK
Transference, Sue Arrowsmith and Mathew Weir, MOCA London, UK
2017
Nature Morte. Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, UK and The Four Domes Pavilion, Museum of Contemporary Art, The National Museum in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
2016
Nature Morte. Contemporary Artists Reinvigorating the Still Life, Konsthallen Bohuslän Museum, Sweden and Hå gamle prestegard, Stavanger, Norway
2014
100 Painters of Tomorrow, Beers Contemporary, London, UK
Somos Libres II. Works from the Mario Testino Collection, Pinacoteca Gianni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
2013
FLAG’s 5th Anniversary Group Exhibition, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Victoriana: The Art of Revival, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, UK
Made In Bow, The Nunnery, London, UK
The Get-Together, Smedjegatan 5C, Göteborg, Sweden
2012
Beyond Reality, British Painting Today, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Everywhere and Nowhere, Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf, Germany
Struggle(s), Maison Particuliere, Brussels, Belgium
2011
All Cannibals?, curated by Dr. Jeanette Zwingenberger, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
2010
Lebenslust & Totentanz: a selection from the Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
Passion Fruits Picked from the Olbricht Collection, curated by Wolfgang Schoppmann, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
Wunderkammer, curated by Georg Laue, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
Public Private Painting, Mu.zee, Oostend, Belgium
2009
Wonderland – Through the Looking Glass, curated by Robbert Roos, KadE, Amersfoort, Netherlands (catalogue)
Jerwood Contemporary Painters Prize, Jerwood Space, London (touring to PSL, Leeds, Norwich Gallery, Norwich and New Pitville Gallery, Cheltenham)
Back to the Future: Young Artists Look to Old Masters, Robilant and Voena, London, UK
We’re Moving, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Exhibition #1, The Museum of Everything, London, UK
2007
Size Matters: XS, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Ten Years, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
2005
A Violet from Mother’s Grave, curated by Mathew Weir, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
Co-operative Society, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
2004
Royal College of Art MA Degree Show, London, UK,
2003
Breaking God’s Heart, curated by Glenn Brown, 38 Langham Street, London, UK
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, 14 Wharf Road, London, UK
Royal College of Art Interim Show, London, UK