MADELEINE MATsSON
Brooklyn, New York, US
b. 1983 Stockholm, Sweden
2019 MFA in Painting, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture,
New York, New York, US
2012 Certificate in Digital Media, HYPER ISLAND, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 BFA in Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, CA
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EDUCATION:
MFA New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture 2017-2019
Major in Painting
BFA Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada 2003-2008
Major Studio Arts, with Distinction
CONTINUED EDUCATION
NYC Crit Club Summer 2021
“Why Paint?” Virtual seminar with Andrew Prayzner
NYC Crit Club Fall 2020
Art Career Intensive virtual seminar with Sonia Louise Davis and Hilary Doyle
NYSS Marathon Summer 2020
“Virtual landscape painting seminar with Fran O’Neill
RESIDENCIES:
DNA Residency, Freight + Volume Gallery, October 2023
Provincetown, MA
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, January-April 2021
Governors Island, New York, NY
DNA Residency, Freight + Volume Gallery, October 2020
Provincetown, MA
Four Pillars, July-August 2019
Mount Gretna, PA
Chautauqua School of Arts, June-August 2018
Chautauqua, NY
EXHIBITIONS:
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
The North Museum, Transformation Gallery Show, Lancaster, PA 2024
Thomas VanDyke Gallery, South Brooklyn Salon, Brooklyn, NY 2023
NYSS Project Space, Anthro-Shift, Brooklyn, NY
James May Gallery, Art of Water VII, Milwaukee, WI
Harrison Center, Ginger & Spice & Everything Nice, Indianapolis, IN 2022
Wavelength Space, Tiny Things, Chattanooga, TN
Olympia Gallery, Said To Be Dreaming, New York, NY
Da Vinci Art Alliance, To a Green Thought in a Green Shade, Philadelphia, PA
Lancaster Galleries, Four Pillars Residency Show, PA 2020
Local Project Art Space, Day & Night, Queens, NY
Shrine & Sargent’s Daughter Gallery, The Velvet Ropes, New York, NY 2019
Blue Mountain Gallery, Juried Exhbition, New York, NY
The Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua, NY 2018
Knockdown Center, Nasty Women Exhibition, Queens, NY
Johns Hopkins, National Arts Program Exhibition, Baltimore, MD 2017
Local Project Art Space, Paradise in the City, Queens, NY
Amos Eno Gallery, Peace Among Savages, Brooklyn, NY 2016
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The Church of Sweden NYC, I Brinnande Mörker, New York, NY 2019
Ymuno Gallery, Fireproof, Montreal, QC, Canada 2017
e l i x a Steuerberatungs GmbH, Open house exhibition, Horn, Austria 2014
URBAN OUTFITTERS Gallery Space, Impressions, Stockholm, Sweden 2011
SELECTED ONLINE VIEWINGS
Suboart Magazine, Illuminating the Beauty of Science, Lisbon, Portugal 2023 https://issuu.com/suboartmagazine/docs/catalogue_illuminating_the_beauty_of_science_suboa
BAM, Benefit Auction, Brooklyn, NY 2021
www.artsy.net/auction/bam-benefit-auction-2021
Bowery Gallery, Annual Juried Show, New York, NY 2020
http://www.bowerygallery.org/schedule.html
The Aerogramme Center for Arts and Culture, Isolated, But Not Alone, Brooklyn, NY
www.aerogramme.org/exhibitions/isolated-but-not-alone
Vacant Museum, A Time Capsule For the Future
https://www.vacantmuseum.com/open-in-case-of-memory-loss-covid-capsule/
Art Students League, Life Under the Pandemic, pg 52, New York, NY
https://asllinea.org/life-under-the-pandemic-moon/
SELECTED INTERVIEWS + PERFORMANCES:
CANVAS REBEL, Artist Interview 2023
https://canvasrebel.com/meet-madeleine-matsson/
VOYAGE TAMPA, Artist Interview
http://voyagetampa.com/interview/check-out-madeleine-fia-matssons-story/
ART UNCOVERED, Podcast Interview by Kimberly Ruth 2021
Rubin Museum, Sounds of the Street, New York, NY 2017
Live painted onstage to the sound of Himalayan music as a part of the Rubin Museum Block Party
MURALS:
Foursquare, San Francisco, California 2016
Designed and outlined a mural based on company values
for the new SF office that the employees helped
fill in as a team building experience.
https://vimeo.com/178026486
PS 636 Young Scholars’ Academy for Discovery and Exploration, 2014
NYC Cares Day, Brooklyn, NY
Designed & outlined mural in school auditorium for volunteers to fill in
ARCAS, Sea Turtle Preservation Center, Hawaii, Guatemala 2006
Painted a mural on the wall of the center depicting turtles suffering
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN THE ARTS:
New York Studio School 2021
Painting Marathon TA with Fran O’Neill over Zoom
Private Drawing Mentor
offering weekly critiques over Zoom
New York Studio School 2020
Painting Marathon TA with Fran O’Neill over Zoom 2019
303 Gallery, Jeppe Hein’s “Breathe with Me” project in Central Park
Participant facilitator. Helped the public paint lines on the structure
Matthew Barney: River of Fundament 2014
Film Extra