Education

1997 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1996 MFA, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
1988 BA, film production and film studies, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1984 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Solo Exhibitions

2003
A Man of the Crowd, Murray Guy, New York, NY
A Man of the Crowd, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria (cat.), curated by Matthias Michalka
Subcutaneous, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, curated by Cate Rimmer

2002
Definition, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, curated by Larissa Harris

2001
Subcutaneous, Murray Guy, New York, NY (cat.)
Matthew Buckingham: Video Ab Acht, Schnitt Ausstellungsraum, Cologne, Germany, curated
by Barbara Clausen
Sandra of the Tuliphouse or How to Live in a Free State, (with Joachim Koester), x-rummet,
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (cat.), curated by Marianne Torp
Sandra of the Tuliphouse or How to Live in a Free State, (with Joachim Koester), Capecete Projects,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2000
Situation Leading to a Story, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999
Contemporary Film and Video: Matthew Buckingham, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden,
curated by Maria Lind
Films + Photographs + Drawings, Murray Guy, New York, NY

1998
Sandra of the Tuliphouse, (with Joachim Koester), Institute of Visual Arts, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, curated by Peter Doroshenko

Selected Group Exhibitions

2003
Territories, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany, (cat.) curated by Anselm Franke and Sine Bepler
Get Rid of Yourself, ACC Weimar & Stiftung Federkiel, Halle 14 Leipzig, Germany, curated by Frank Motz
Homeland, Whitney ISP, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, curated by Craig Buckley,
Tanya Leighton, Sara Reisman, Emily Rothschild, and Nat Trotman
Watershed: The Hudson Valley Art Project, Beacon, NY and surrounding locations, organized
by Diane Shamash
Cloudless, CCS Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, curated by Bree Edwards
Inscribing the Temporal, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria, curated by Sara Reisman
Rent-A-Bench, Kunstmuseet Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark, curated by Jacob Fabricius
Affinity Archive, Broadstone Studios, Dublin, curated by Sarah Pierce

2002
Nostalgia, Art In General, New York, NY, curated by Pip Day
Rent-A-Bench, Los Angeles, CA, (cat.) curated by Jacob Fabricius
The Captain’s Road, Dublin, Ireland, curated by Orla Ryan, Maeve Connoly, and Valerie Connor
Road Trip, Murray Guy, New York, NY
The Brewster Project, Brewster, NY, curated by William Stover

2001
Plakardprojekt, organized by SITE & Schnitt Ausstellungsraum, Cologne, Germany, curated by
Maria Tappeiner
Quality Street, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark
Definition, Murray Guy, New York, NY

2000
Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
May Day Vienna, The Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria, curated by Regine Basha, Christoff
Gerosisis, and Anton Vidokle
La Ville, le Jardin, la Memoire–La Folie Section, Villa Medici/Academie de Francia, Rome, Italy (cat.),
curated by Laurence Bossé, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Vague but True, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK and Galeri Asbaek, Copenhagen, Denmark
Re-opening, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999
The American Century, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Close-Ups—Contemporary Art and Carl Th. Dreyer, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen,
Denmark (cat.), curated by Lene Crone Crone and Lars Movin
L.A. International, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
You Assume Certain Places Exist, Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels, Belgium
Parking, High Bridge Park, NY, organized by May Day Productions: Regine Basha, Christoff
Gerosisis, and Anton Vidokle
Caravan, Astrotel Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria, curated by Rudi Molacek

1998
Nuit Blanche, ARC Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (cat.), curated by Laurence
Bossé and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (cat.), curated by
René Block and Lars Bang Larsen
Screening, Apex Art P.C., New York, NY, curated by Gregory Williams

1997
Assorted Confabulations: Fiction + Interference, Consonni Centro de Prácticas Contemporáneas,
Bilbao, Spain, curated by Catsou Roberts
For Eyes and Ears, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark
Three Rivers Arts Festival, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

1996
New Histories, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Selected Screenings

2003
Films by Matthew Buckingham, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Films of Matthew Buckingham, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria

2002
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI

2001
Artist’s Films, Cannes International Film Festival, Cannes, France

2000
Three Films by Matthew Buckingham, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Crossing Boundaries, National Cinematheque, Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art Film, Stadtkino, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Shoot: Moving Pictures by Artists, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

1999
Five 29 Ninety9, one-day symposium, St. Ann’s Church, Brooklyn, NY
Silver Series, Saint Mark's Church Danspace Project, New York, NY
Meters 1, Salon 300, Brooklyn, NY and Tian Miao Lin, Beijing, China

1998
Reading Places, Pacific Film Archive / Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
The Glass of Knowledge, The Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY

1997
New Directors/New Films, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH

1996
Film Club, Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY

1994
Works-in-Progress, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Sydney Public Television, Sydney, Australia

1993
San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Black Maria Film Festival, NJ
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Reel Time, Performance Space 122, New York, NY

1990
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
St. Mark's Church Danspace Project, New York, NY

Teaching

Freund Teaching Fellowship, Washington University School of Art, St. Louis, MO (2004-2005)
Visiting Tutor, Malmö Art Academy-Lund University, Malmö, Sweden (2003-2005)
Visiting Artist (workshops, lectures, and/or studio visits, 1997-2003):
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Boston College, Boston, MA
The City University of New York, New York, NY
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada
Malmö Art Academy-Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
New York University, New York, NY
Odense Academy of Art, Odense, Denmark
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The School of Visual Art, New York, NY
Vienna Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, Austria
Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK

Fellowships and Grants

2004
Henry and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellowship, Washington University School of Art, St.Louis, MO

2003
DAAD Artists Program, Berlin, Germany
Watershed: The Hudson Valley Project, Minetta Brook Foundation, NY

2001
New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists Fellowship

1997
Danish Film Institute Film Workshop Production Grant

1996
New York State Council on the Arts Film Production Grant

1992
Art Matters Artist’s Fellowship, New York, NY

1990
Apparatus Production Grant, New York, NY

Awards

1997
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Best Narrative Film, Amos Fortune Road

1993
Black Maria Film Festival, Director's Citation, The Truth About Abraham Lincoln
Onion City Film Festival, Best-of-Festival Prize,The Truth About Abraham Lincoln
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Best-of-Festival Prize, Dizzy

1990
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Award of Excellence, At Once

Selected Bibliography

2003
Metzger, Rainer, “Soho am Stephansplatz – MUMOK: Matthew Buckingham – A man of the
Crowd”, artmagazine, Vienna, September 22, 2003
Cotter, Holland. ‘Art shows in the Great Indoors’, The New York Times, 25 July
“Homeland”, Time Out New York, Issue 403, June 19-26, 2003
Boettger, Suzanne. ‘Cinderella on the Hudson, Art in America, June, pp.39-45

2002
Sundell, Margaret. “Wet Dream”, Time Out New York, 26 Sept. – 3 Oct. p.60
“P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, ‘Definition’”, The New Yorker, 12 August, p.15
Buckingham, Matthew & Koester, Joachim. ‘Points of Suspension’, October, No.100,Spring, pp. 55-63
Kraynak, Janet “Matthew Buckingham”, Watershed-The Hudson Valley Art Project, Minetta Brook, New
York, NY, pp. 83-89
“Definition - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center”, The New Yorker, August 12, p.15
Buckingham, Matthew and Joachim Koester, “Points of suspension”, October, no.100, Spring, pp.55-63
Sonkin, Rebecca. Tema Celeste, March, p.84

2001
Burton, Johanna. Time Out New York, 6-13 December, p.62
Williams, Gregory. New York Critics’ Picks, Artforum.com
Buckingham, Matthew. Subcutaneous, artists book, published by Murray Guy & Shark Books
Ryan, Orla. "In Between Lost and Found: The Films of Matthew Buckingham", Afterimage,
March/April, pp.16-17
Sandra of the Tuliphouse or How to Live in a Free State, catalogue , x-rummet, Statens Museum for
Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, texts by Marianne Torp, Matthew Buckingham & Joachim Koester
Movin, Lars. "Stedernes gådefulde fortælling", Information, 15 March
Kristensen, Pernille Anker. "Alle veje fører til Christiania", Det Sker/Kultur, 16 March
“Interview With a Cultural Follower and Public Space-Inhabitant”, artist project,Shark, Winter,
issue 3, pp.91-107

2000
Siegel, Katy. "Greater New York", Artforum, May, p.174
Daniels, Yolande. Greater New York, catalogue, Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.1, New York
Dunn, Melissa. "Matthew Buckingham’s 'Situation Leading to a Story'", Greater New York ,catalogue,
Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.1, New York
Shaw, Lytle, "How to Make Good Experimental Ethnographic Films: Matthew Buckingham", Greater New York, catalogue, Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.1, New York
Stanley, Sarah. "Shirin Neshat: Matthew Buckingham", Greater New York , catalogue, Institute for
Contemporary Art, P.S.1, New York
Jönsson, Dan. "Konstfilm i Malmö", Dagens Nyheter, Malmö, February 16
"Exhibition Picks", The Guardian, London, 24 June

1999
Close-Ups - Contemporary Art and Carl Th. Dreyer, catalogue, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, texts by Lene Crone Jensen and Lars Movin
Williams, Gregory. "Matthew Buckingham - Murray Guy, New York", Frieze, No.46, May, pp.98-99
Jowitt, Deborah. "Depth of Memory", The Village Voice, April 13

1998
Nuit Blanche, catalogue, ARC Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Larson, Lars Bang: in Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark, catalogue, Museum
Fridericianum, Kassel
"Home Movies: Situation leading to a Story", SuperUmbau , No.4, Autumn
"A Project for Atlantica Magazine", with Joachim Koester, Atlantica International, No. 19.
Roberts, Catsou. "Between Documentation and Drama", artpress , No.232, February
Taubin, Amy. "Love and Death, 1997’s Top Ten Films",The Village Voice, New York, Jan. 6 "Situation Leading to a Story", Ojeblikket magazine, No.35, Spring

1997
Anderson, John. "New Films Series Takes Manhattan", Newsday, March 21
Maslin, Janet. "Quiet Desperation, Then Decisions, Decisions", The New York Times, March 29
Taubin, Amy. "Worlds Apart", The Village Voice, March 25

1996
Gilliam, Leah. "Eraser Vols. 9&10", New Histories, catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston