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