MATTHEW KLUBER
Education
MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1991
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1987
Selected Exhibitions
David Richard Gallery, New York, NY, Optics and Perception: Prismatic, Patterned, Vectored, and Perspectival Approaches, 2025
Carl F Anderson, Ernst Benkert, Siri Berg, Claire Blitz, Ronald Davis, Nathan Ethier, Roland Gebhardt, Christian Haub, Matthew Kluber, Mokha Laget, Marilyn Nelson, Dee Shapiro, Andrew Spence, Robert Swain, Martha Szabo, Laura Watt, Sanford Wurmfeld.
Art Vault, Thoma Art Foundation, Santa Fe, NM, Filtered, 2024
Angela Bulloch, Herbert Bayer, Daniel Canogar, Max Cole, Petra Cortright, John Gerrard, Huntress Janos, Olafur Eliasson, Ivan Navarro, Matthew Kluber, LoVid, Sohei Nishino, Alan Rath,Omar Rodriguez-Graham, David Benjamin Sherry, Jennifer Steinkamp, Leo Villareal, Kumi Yamashita, Marina Zurkow.
Real Tinsel, Milwaukee, WI, Sword Thumbs, curator: Kaden Van De Loo, 2024
Chris Arabadjis, Cat Birk, Michelle Brandemuhl, Jane Fox Hipple, Rebecca Kaufman, Matthew Kluber,
Paul Lee, Kris Lindskoog, Lester Monzon, Rafael Francisco Salas, Lauren Salazar, Laurel Sparks,
Ken Weathersby.
David Richard Gallery, New York, NY, Some Like It Hot A Summer Exhibition – Part 2: Geometry and Color, (online) catalog, 2024
Isaac Aden, Carl F Anderson, Nathan Ethier, Matthew Kluber, Mokha Laget, Robert C Morgan,
Lester Rapaport, Oli Sihvonen, Andrew Spence, Robert Swain, Laura Watt, Thornton Willis,
Ben Woolfitt
Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO, Decade, 2023
Ahram Park, Alayne Spafford, Andy Brayman, Anne Lindberg, Anthony Baab, Archie Scott Gobber, Armin Mühsam, Bill Jacobson, Brock DeBoer, Caleb Taylor, Claudia Casarino, Darcy Badiali, Davin Watne, Deanna Dikeman, Debra Smith, Del Harrow, Eric Sall, Hendrik Kerstens, Hong Chun Zhang, James Woodfill, Jenny Sharaf, Julie Blackmon, Justin Gainan, Keith F, Davis, Ken Ferguson, Ken Wood, Kika Karadi, Lisa Grossman, Marcie Miller Gross, Matthew Kluber, Michael Krueger, Mike Sinclair, Miki Baird, Nate Fors, Robert Bingaman, Ryan Fenchel, Samara Umbral, Shane Lutzk, Stuart Allen, Terry Evans, Thomas Jackson, Warren Rosser, Wilbur Niewald, Yoonmi Nam.
David Richard Gallery, New York, NY, Small Artworks by Selected Gallery Artists, (online) catalog, 2023
Wege Center for the Arts, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA, FACTUAL / ACTUAL: Color After Albers, curator: Susan Metrican, 2023
Deborah Zlotsky, Matthew Kluber, Eric Hibit, Fabiola Menchelli, Susan Licthman,
Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA, Digital Vision, (catalog) 2022
Bill Albertini, Matthew Kluber, Kate Petley, John Pomara, John F. Simon Jr., Anne Spalter, Jody Zellen.
David Richard Gallery, New York, NY, Matthew Kluber: Split Infinitives, 2021 (solo)
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, Bemis Benefit Auction, 2021
Haw Contemporary, Kansas City MO, Matthew Kluber: Split Infinitives, 2021 (solo)
Joseph Nease Gallery, Duluth, MN, A Warm Reset, 2021
David Richard Gallery, New York, NY, A Selection of Paintings and Works on Paper, (online) catalog, 2020
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, Bemis Benefit Art Auction, 2020
Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, Mo, Matthew Kluber: Radio_Free Santa Fe, 2019 (solo)
Joseph Nease Gallery, Duluth, MN, Friday I'm in Love, 2019 (solo)
David Richard Gallery, New York, NY, No Place Like Utopia, 2018 (solo)
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, The Laura + John Fraser Collection, curator: Carrie Johnson, 2018
Joseph Nease Gallery, Duluth, MN, Sweep, 2018
Alison Aune, Kirsten Aune, Robert Bingaman, James Brinsfield, Marcus Cain, Peter Granados, Christopher Harrison, Rachel Hayes, Matthew Kluber, Don Kottmann, Kay Kurt, Adam McCauley, Karen Owsley Nease, Heidi Pollard, Warren Rosser, Eric Sall, Rabbett before Horses Strickland, Jonathan Thunder, Mimi Chen Ting, James Woodfill and Leah Yellowbird.
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, Virtual Views: Digital Art From the Thoma Foundation,
curator: Hansen Mulford, 2017
Jim Campbell, Daniel Canogar, Craig Dorety, John Gerrard, Matthew Kluber, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Manfred Mohr, Anne Morgan Spalter, Alan Rath, Daniel Rozin, Björn Schülke, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Leo Villareal.
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, Art on Paper, curator: Emily Stamey, 2017
Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO, Summer Exhibition, 2017
Orange Door, Thoma Art Foundation, Chicago, IL, Life After Media, curator: Jason Foumberg, 2017
Guillermo Galindo, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Eduardo Kac, Matthew Kluber, Jon Rafman, and Jason Salavon.
David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Beyond, 2017
Joseph Nease Gallery, Duluth, MN, Three States: Matthew
Kluber, Kathy McTavish & James Woodfill, 2017
Modern Arts Midtown, Omaha, NE, Matthew Kluber & Colin C. Smith, 2017
David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Plugged In,
2016
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, Studio Faculty Exhibition, 2016
Dallas Art Fair, David Richard Gallery, 2016
Art Miami, David Richard Gallery, 2015
Public Art Commission/Ingersoll Restoration Project: So Much Water So Close to Home (permanent exterior projection 40' x 60'), Des Moines, IA, 2015
David Richard Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM, Re-Op: ‘The Responsive Eye’ Fifty Years After -Visual
Perception Today, curators: Peter Frank and David Eichholtz, 2015
Richard
Anuszkiewicz, Karl Benjamin, Francis Celentano, Peter Demos, Fred Eversley,
Gabriele Evertz, Beverly Fishman, John Goodyear, Christian Haub, Matthew
Kluber, Tom Martinelli, Ed Mieczkowski, Ruth Pastine, Paul Reed, Richard Roth,
Oli Sihvonen, Jack Slentz, Julian Stanczak, Robert Swain, Tadasky, Leo
Valledor, Stephen Westfall, Sanford Wurmfeld, Mario Yrisarry and Eric Zammitt
Haw
Contemporary, Kansas City, MO, You People, 2015
Brunnier
Museum of Art, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 40/40, 2015
David
Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Matthew Kluber: Electr-O-Pura,
2015 (solo)
College
of the Sequoias Art Gallery, Visalia, CA, East/West Contemporary
American Prints, 2015
Grand
Rapids Museum of Art, Grand Rapids, MI, So Much Water So Close To Home,
2015
Furlong
Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI, Chroma[a]Chroma,
2014
David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Projected2, 2014
Art Miami, David Richard Gallery, 2013
Filmambiente: International Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Cool
Stories for When the Planet Gets Hot, 2013
David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Projected, 2013
Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, NY, Cool Stories for When the
Planet Gets Hot, 2013
Art Miami, David Richard Gallery, 2012
Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Repeat, 2012
David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Matthew Kluber: Color Interference,
2012 (solo)
The Painting Center, New York, Natural/Constructed Spaces,
curators: Marianne Van Lent and Galen Cheney (catalog), 2012
Zane Bennet Contemporary Project Space, Santa Fe, NM, Currents: Santa Fe International New Media Festival, 2012
East/West: Contemporary American Prints Traveled to: University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Central Connecticut State University, Art Gallery, Ameen Art Gallery Nicholls State University (LA), CU Museum of Art University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, 2012
The National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library, Cedar Rapids, IA, The Hour
Grows Late, (painting/projection; temporary installation) 2012
Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Not Here No There, curator: Hesse
McGraw, 2011
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, Matthew Kluber, curator: Jeff Fleming, (brochure), 2011 (solo)
Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China, Animamix
Biennial:
Metaphors of Un/Real, curator: Victoria Lu, 2010
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, John F. Simon, Jr.
and Matthew Kluber: Hybrid Media (catalog), 2010
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, Borderland
Abstraction, curator: Hesse McGraw (brochure), 2010
Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, Matthew
Kluber: Half-Day Closing, 2010 (solo)
Art Basel, FOCUS09, Basel, Switzerland, Cool Stories for When the Planet Gets Hot II, curators: Corinne Erni, New York and Anne-Marie Melster, Spain; traveled to: Valencia Museum of Illustration and Modernity, Valencia, Spain: Pavilion City Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, UN Climate Conference COP 15, 2009
Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI, So Much Water So Close To Home, (film
installation/ exterior projection), 2009
Newport Mill, Newport, NH, H2O: Film on Water, 2009
Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA, ATA Film &
Video Festival, 2009
Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, Beyond Printmaking,
2008
The Micro Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Big Ideas: The Teeny Tiny Show,
2008
Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green,
OH, Perfect with Pixel, curator: Shaurya Kumar 2008
Gallery One Visual Arts Center, Ellensburg, WA, Vertical Hold,
curators: Justin Colt Beckman and Andrew Kaufman, 2008
Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, Painting Process, curators: Jaqueline Bekiaris, Maria Silvestri, 2007
ICON Gallery, Fairfield, IA, Large Works Group Show, 2007
ACT Inc. Iowa City, IA, New Commissions in the Collection, Matthew
Kluber: Data is Nature, 2006
Kuper Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Visualizing TRANS, 2006
Lakeview Museum of Art, Peoria, IL, Selections from the Permanent
Collection, 2006
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, Faculty
Biennial, 2006
McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michaels College, Colchester, VT, Matthew
Kluber: Paintings, 2005
Sisneros Fine Art, Tulsa, OK, Group Show, 2005
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, Faculty Biennial, 2004
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, Mixed Signals,
curator: Colin Smith, (brochure) 2003
Eaton-Buchan Gallery, Coe College, Cedar Rapids IA, Matthew Kluber: Firewire
Pictures, 2003
Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Matthew Kluber, Nate
Fors, 2002
Janalyn Hanson White Gallery, Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, IA,
Matthew Kluber, 2002 (solo)
123 Watts Gallery, New York, NY, Summer Group Exhibition, 2001
Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Group Show, 2001
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, By Design IA01,
curator: Chris Gilbert (catalogue), 2001
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, Patient Process, curators: Lesley Wright and Donald Doe (catalog), 2001
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, Midlands Invitational, curators: Janet Farber, John Schloder (catalogue), 2000
Blanden Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA, Matthew Kluber: Paintings, (brochure), 1999 (solo)
Jason Peng Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Matthew Kluber, David Dawson, Priscilla Sage, 1999
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, Iowa Artists 1999
Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL, Surface: Dot, Dash & Grid, 1998
Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX, Group Show, 1998
Percival Gallery, Des Moines, IA, Abstract Images, 1998 (solo)
Clemson University, Clemson, SC, Graphics Beyond Technique, 1998
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, Iowa Artists 1998
Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, College
of Design Faculty, 1998
The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, Seventy-first International Print Exhibition, curator: Peter Von Ziegesar, 1998
Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles
Printmaking Society Fourteenth Annual Exhibition, 1997
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, Iowa Artists 1997
Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, College of Design Faculty, 1996
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, Iowa Artists from the
Permanent Collection, 1996
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, Accessing a Future, curator: Jean
Graham, 1994
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, Contemporary Drawings and Monoprints, curator: Jo Ann Conklin, 1993
Percival Gallery, Des Moines, IA, Matthew Kluber, Paintings and Drawings, 1992 (solo)
Kiski School, Saltsburg, PA, Matthew Kluber: Paintings and Monotypes, 1991 (solo)
State University of New York, Purchase, NY, Five Contemporary Printmakers, 1991
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, Iowa Artists 1991
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, At the Edge II: Contemporary Prints
and Drawings 1990
Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles Printmaking Society Eleventh Annual Exhibition, 1990
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, Iowa Artists, 1990
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, At the Edge: Contemporary Prints and Drawings, 1989
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, 39th North American Print Exhibition, 1987
Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, BFA Exhibition, 1987
Selected Collections
Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, Dallas, TX
Estée Lauder International, Inc., New York, NY
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX
Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA
University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
University of Louisiana Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
Lakeview Museum of Art, Peoria, IL
Blanden Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
University of Iowa, Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa, City, IA
Grants/Awards
Mellon Foundation Grant, Drawing Structures: 3D Printing, University of Iowa, 2017
Obermann Fellow, Obermann Center for Advanced Study, University of Iowa, (Fall) 2016
Mellon Foundation Grant, Digital Bridges, 2015
Furbush Faculty Scholar Sabbatical, Grinnell College, 2011/12
National Science Foundation Grant, Reformulating Media Computation
With
Functional Programming, Scripting, and Design Principles. Co-Principal
investigators: Sam Rebelsky PhD, Janet Davis PhD, Grinnell College, 2007-09
Harris Fellowship: Light + Paint, Grinnell College, 2007/08
Teaching
Professor, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, 2017 - present
Associate Professor, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, 2009 - 2017
Assistant Professor, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, 2003 - 09
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2002 - 03
Visiting Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 1994 - 99
Artist-in-Residence, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, 1991 - 93