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Matthew Placek lives and works in New York City Born November 19th 1979 |
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Education |
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| 1998 - 2001 | Fine Art and Photography, School of Visual Arts |
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Solo Exhibitions |
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| 2015 | 130919 • A Portrait of Marina Abramovic Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York City |
| 2013 | 130919 • A Portrait of Marina Abramovic The National YoungArts Foundation, Miami, FL |
| 2009 | "FISCHERSPOONER: Matthu Placek" Colette, Paris |
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Group Exhibitions and Collaborative Works |
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2016 2015 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 |
"VISIONAIRE 65 FREE" Creative Artist Agency, Los Angeles, CA "Poem: Videos" in collaboration with Antonia Wright, The Screening Room, Miami, FL "Act Like You're Fine" Vacant Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, curated by Io Tillett Wright "nothingtodoterencekoh" Terence Koh, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC "Live Forever" The Kitchen, NYC, curated by Robert Melee "The Artist is Present" Marina Abramovic, MoMA, NYC "Kristen Baker" Museum of Fine Arts, Boston "Between Worlds" MoMA/Performa, FISCHERSPOONER, curated by Klaus Biesenbach "Shifting Shapes" Art Perform, Miami Basel Kelly Nipper curated by Jens Hofmann "Fischerspooner" 28th Biennial de Såo Paulo "VBSS" Vanessa Beecroft, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan "The End of My Life as a Rabbit in Love" Terence Koh, Deitch Projects, NYC "I Want to Ride My Bicycle" Pia Dehne, Deitch Projects, NYC |
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Selected Publications |
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2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2005 |
"Marina Abramovic by Matthu Placek" VISIONAIRE 65 FREE, Los Angeles Stephen Tref nger, "The Sparring Feminist" Cultuered Magazine, p. 136-139 Andrew Durbin, "Whatever is your Pleasure" Out Magazine, January Kate Sutton, "Erik Parker" Cultuered Magazine Winter p. 192-193 Sarah Cristobal, "Valentino" Yahoo Style, June 2nd David Adjaye, "Golden Age" Cultured Magazine April/May p. Cover, 144-147 Ian Volner "American Revolution" Cultured Magazine April/May p. 148-151 "Baby" by Hannah Cohen featuring Thibault Lac, www.NOWNESS.com (Film) Larry Gagosian, June p. 65-68 Adam, Whitney Nichols, "Thibault Lac" OOO (Out Of Order) Spring, p. 84-87 "South of Heaven" Modern Weekly (China), p.40-47 Michael, Bullock, "Jeanne Gang" Pin-Up Fall Winter, p. 52-64 Geo, Hagan, "Artist Oliver Clegg Inverts Perceptions of Used & Discarded Objects" Man of the World April Jacob, Brown, "The Artist's Way: Influenced by Her Father, Trixie Whitley's Sound is All Her Own" Vogue.com May Emmanuel, Petit, "The Parrish Museum On Long Island By Herzog & De Meuron, USA" Casabella February/May Chloe, Schama, "The Art of Inspiration" Wall Street Journal March Ryan, Johnson, Self Storage (Catalogue) Jeff, Whitty, "Avenue Q Creator Jeff Whitty on the Transformation of Rob Roth" Out There, p. 98-107 Linda, Yablonsky, "Sight Reading" Elle December, p. 306-315 Matthew, Ross, "Super Friends" The Aesthete Timothy Sohn "A Wild Civility" The Aesthete Adam, Whitney Nichols, "Being Nick Cave" The Aesthete "ICFF Studio: Young Guns" Nowness May "Martha Wainwirght: Proserpina" (Film Premiere) Nowness August 30th "Trixie Whitley: A Thousand Thieves" Nowness January 4th Whitney Spaner "The Seducer: Jeremy Irons" Vs. Magazine Fall Winter, p. 84-97 George Condo, Wallpaper*, November Marina Cashdan "Grand Openings" Wallpaper*, October, p. 176-177 Hannah Cohen, "Child Bride" Film Premiere Nowness, August 15th Mimi Zeiger, "Action Man" Wallpaper*, September, p. 95 Morgan, Hudson, "High Altitude" Town and Country, May, p.122-125 Lennon, Christine, "The Family Ford" Town and Country, May, p. 62 Nicolas Trembley "Manifeste: Josephine Meckseper" Numéro, August Houser, Kristopher Arden, "Terence Koh" Italian Vogue, February 11th , 2011 Hershkovits, David, "Justin Bond's Gender Bender" Paper Magazine, May 9th , 2011 Kaliardos, James, "Uma Thurman" Candy Magazine, Fall-Winter, p. 56-57 Scarry, Olympia, "Vanessa Beecroft" Pop Magazine, Spring Summer 2010, p.140-143 Yan, Catherine, "Chinese Now: Joan Chen" China Vogue, September, p.342 Yan, Catherine, "Chinese Now: Nancy Kwan" China Vogue, September, p.319 "Modern Living" portrait of Narcisco Rodriguez, Elle Magazine Pfander, Catherine Blair, "Alejandro Alcocer" The Last Magazine, Spring, p. 9 Kaliardos, James, "Stella Star" V Magazine, Spring, p.84 Brown, Sarah, "Beauty: The Model Must-Haves" Vogue, May 7th Egan, Maura, "Almost Famous" The New York Times, November 3rd "Taking Care of Business: Silkstone" V Man, Winter "Gold Diggers" Teen Vogue, November, p. 62 Lui, Ming, "East is West" V Magazine, p. 151 Singer, Jill, "Heros: Eva Zeisel" V Magazine, Spring Preview, p. 48 Ming Liu, "Orient Express" V Magazine, Spring Preview, p.78-79 Blasberg, Derek, "Terence Koh, Garrick Gott: Love Stories" China Vogue, March, p. 224 Abramovic, Marina & Koh, Terence, "Caught in the Act" V Magazine, Spring, p.96-97 "I like to Dance this way" Visionaire Video Online "Jennifer Woo: Fashion Retail Icon" China Vogue, December, p. 147 Whitworth, Melissa, "The Power Dressers" Harper's Bazaar UK, December, p. 248-249 "Paulo Szot" Men's Vogue, November Blasberg, Derek, "Social Studies" V Magazine, Winter, p. 70-75 Magania, Alessandro, "Turner Cody" The Last Magazine, Fall, p.12 Dehn, Georgia, "The Master of Mascara" Telegraph Fashion, Autumn/Winter, p.86-89 Rebecca Voight, "Ladies Man" V Magazine, Summer, p.82-83 Nelson, Karin, "Fit to Print" V Magazine, Fall, p. 58-59 "Marc Jacobs & Richard Prince" Harper's Bazaar (UK) Honigman, Ana Finel, "Sahra Mortelebi" The Last Magazine, Spring, p. 20 Jentleson, Katherine, "Out of the Past" Art+Auction, March, p. 82-88 Placek, Matthu, "Made in Manhattan: Cecilia Dean" China Vogue, January, p. 232-233 Leona Lewis, The London Sunday Times, December Placek, Matthu, "Twisted" V Magazine, Winter, p.90-95 Fagone, Jason, "The Exterminators" Esquire, November Mateo, David, "Cuban Art in the 1990's" Cuba Absolutely, November "American Pastoral" Men's Vogue, November "Prince of Ties" Men's Vogue, November "Anthony Roth Costanzo" Me Magazine, Winter. Full Issue Mears, Emily Speers, "Flash Art" V Magazine, Summer, p.Cover & 70-71 Hohenadel, Kristin, "The Punk Ballerina Returns, With Souvenirs" The New York Times, November 27th |
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Awards & Honors |
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2015 2014 2013 |
The Pocantico Center, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Artist in Residence New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Artspire Recipient The Rockefeller Brothers Foundation Grant New Frontier, Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival The Rockefeller Brothers Foundation Grant The National YoungArts Foundation Grant The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Grant |
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Press and Special Projects |
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2013 2011 2010 2009 2008 |
"130919 • A Portrait of Marina Abramovic by Matthu Placek to be presented at Sundance Film Festival" ArtDaily.com December 30th "A Portrait of Marina Abramovic by Matthu Placek at Sundance Film Festival 2014" Eternal Optimist, December 12th Samantha Gurrie, "Matthu Placek on Working with Marina Abramovic," Societe Perrier December 6th "Agenda: The Week's Can't-Miss Events Around Miami," T Magazine December 4th "Sartorially Inclined" Style.com December 4th Sarah Nicole Prickett, "Auto Didact," ArtForum December 4th "Le Journal de Miami Beach Art Basel, Jour 2" Vogue.fr December 4th "2013 Art Basel Miami Kicks Off" New York Magazine, December 4th "Moving Pictures: 3-D Abramovic: Matthu Placek's Portrait of the Artist," ARTINFO ABMB Daily, December 3rd p. 4 "Matthu Placek's 3D Portrait of Marina Abramovic," Whitewall Magazine, December 3rd "Matthu Placek's Salon 110119: Joseph Keckler" EVB.COM, October 19th Joshua, Lubin-Levy and Carlos, Motta, Petite Mort, Recollections of a Queer Public, p. 108-109 "Notes on the Underground: Justin Bond" T Magazine, September 3rd "MP: Mattu Placek, Fashion Photographer" MFDirectory.com "Young Apprentices on Their Mentors" Sugar, Vendil and LinYee Yuan, Theme Magazine, p. 68-69 "December Overexposure in Miami Basel" DOSSIER, December 14th "The Twenty Most Stylish People" NY Magazine, September 13th "Matthu Placek's Salon 100619: Bridget Everett" EVB.COM, June 19th "Matthu Placek's Salon 100818: Just Bond" EVB.COM, August 18th "The Book of Matthu" August Man, October , p. 114-121 "Week 42: Luke Gilford" To Much Chocolate, November 24th "Week 41: Matthu Placek" To Much Chocolate, November 18th "The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins" Directed by Pietra Brettkelly Featuring Vanessa Beecroft, Jeffery Deitch, and Matthu Placek. |