Matt Blackwell

Matt Blackwell: received his BFA from the Portland School of Art, Maine, participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and received his MFA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC. Blackwell received a Purchase Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2006) and his work was included in the 2013 Maine Biennial and is currently in “Modern Menagerie” at the Portland Museum of Art. Fellowship residencies include Yadoo; Sculpture Space in Utica, NY; Vermont Studio Center; Triangle Arts Association and Art Lot in Red Hook Brooklyn. Blackwell had six solo shows the Edward Thorp Gallery in New York City and is represented by Cove Street Gallery in Portland Maine. In addition to a solo exhibition at Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, Blackwell’s work has been exhibited at Studio 10 and Parker’s Box in Brooklyn, NY, John Davis Gallery (Hudson, N.Y.), Hartwick College (Oneota, NY), Greenhut Gallery, (Portland, Me,) Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta GA) and numerous group shows in New York City and Maine. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015. His work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, The New York Times , Art In America , Village Voice, New Art Examiner, Art Papers, Maine Times, Maine Sunday Telegraph, Portland Press Herald, and Art New England. His work is in the collection of  the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, and the Hall Art Collection, Reading, Vermont.