Matthew Pawlowski

Born: Niles, Michigan 

EDUCATION

M.F.A., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 


B.A., Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.

EXHIBITIONS

2019     One of These Things, Twice, NIAD, Richmond, CA. Group Exhibit. Margaret Tedesco, Curator, 2nd Floor Projects.

2019     Summer Bloom, Sticks Gallery, Berkeley, CA. Group Exhibit Myong Stebbins, Curator.

2018     Collective Charm, Sticks Gallery, Berkeley, CA. Group Exhibit. Myong Stebbins, Curator.

2018     Love and Care for Your Brother, Sticks Gallery, Berkeley, CA.  Solo Exhibit. Myong Stebbins, Curator.

2017     Vignettes and Monotony, Visual Aids Online Exhibit, New York, NY. Group Exhibit. Toro Castaño, Curator.

2017     Firing the Canon, Visual Aids Online Exhibit, New York, NY. Group Exhibit. Darren Jones, Curator.

2016     Sticks Gallery, Berkeley, CA. Solo Exhibit. Myong Stebbins, Curator.

2016     Five Pins Gallery, San Francisco, CA.  Group Exhibit.  Lis Goldschmidt, Curator.

2015     Sticks Gallery, Berkeley, CA.  Solo Exhibit. Myong Stebbins, Curator. 

2015     Five Pins Gallery, San Francisco, CA.  Group Exhibit.  Lis Goldschmidt, Curator.


2011     Proof, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. Group Exhibit. Denise Markovish, Curator, Mass MOCA.


2009     Collaborative Work by Sam Lopes and Friends, BlankSpace Gallery, Oakland, CA. Collaboration.


2008     Faretheewell, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN


2006     Bridge Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL


2006     BACKDROP: New Photos and Paintings, Jean Flynn Space, Berkeley, CA.


2005     Summer in Southpark, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Group Exhibition. 

2005     15 x 15 x 15, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Group Exhibition.


2005     Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California. Group Exhibition. 

2005     Adoration/Decoration, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Solo Exhibition.


2004     WAM Art Expo, Frederick R Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota.


2004     Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California. Group Exhibition. 

2004     Reversing Vandalism, San Francisco Public Library Gallery, San Francisco, California. 

2001     The Lite Light Show, 370 South Fair Oaks, Pasadena, California. Group Exhibition.


2000     SF Drawing Show, New Image Arts, Los Angeles, California. Group Exhibition.


2000     Multiple Sensations: Series, Collections, Obsessions, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 

            San Francisco, California. Group Exhibition.


2000     Summerland, 52 Julian Space, San Francisco, California. Group Exhibition.


2000     Things Get Dangerous, Blue Books Gallery, San Francisco, California. Group Exhibition. 

2000     Pierogi 2000 Gallery, Flat Files, New York, New York. Curatorial Project Participation.


1999     California, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Solo Exhibition.


1997     Out Loud and Proud, Bridge Gallery, San Francisco, California. Group Exhibition


1996     Sequence, The Student Center Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California. Group Exhibition.


1996     Ephemera, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Solo Exhibition.


1996     Where Do You Draw the Line? Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota. Group Exhibition.


1995     Recall, Macalester College Gallery, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. Group Exhibition. 

1995     Freaks, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Solo Exhibition.


1995     New Work, Irene Whitney Fine Arts Festival Honoree, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Solo Exhibition. 

1994     Figuration, St. Paul Companies Gallery


1994     The Forgotten Gaze, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

1994     Recent Paintings, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two-Person Exhibition.


1993     Big Ten Conference Exhibit, Big Ten Conference, Park Ridge, Illinois. Group Exhibition.


1992     A Day Without Art, Studio Arts Student Society, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Artist Collaboration.


1992     Expo 1992, Coffman Memorial Union, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Group Exhibition.


1992     Collage Concepts-A Sum of Elements, Bloomington Art Center, Bloomington, Minnesota. Two-Person Exhibition. 

AWARDS AND HONORS


Visual Aid, Recipient, San Francisco, California. 2009.


Bush Foundation Finalist, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1995.


MCAD/McKnight Foundation Fellowship Semi-Finalist, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1995. 

MCAD/Jerome Foundation Fellowship Semi-Finalist, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1994.


Department of Art Scholarship Recipient, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1994. 

President's Leadership and Service Award, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1993. 

Graduate Study Fellow, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1992-93. 

Distinguished Merit Award, Art. Macalester College Senior Honors Convocation. 1988. 

COLLECTIONS


Instant Webb Corporation Permanent Collection, Chanhassen, Minnesota. 

Reinhardt Anderson Law Firm Permanent Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

Dain Bosworth Company Permanent Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

Macalester College Permanent Collection, St. Paul, Minnesota. 

ARTICLES AUTHORED


God Bless the Children of the Beast, Great God Pan, Spring, 1999. (Reviewer)


Foundation Artists Headline SF Exhibit, Tom of Finland Foundation Website, 1999. (Author) 

The Art Workers Press Top Ten Book, edited by Courtney Fink. 2005. (Contributor) 

PUBLICATIONS

The Thing Quarterly, S.F. Trippy Mission: Lives & Art 1989 - 2002, 2014. (Publication)

Jacqueline Ann von Treskow, All on Different Trips-San Francisco’s Mission School and the Dot Com Years,  

USC, Master of Public Art, 2012. (thesis)


Mary Abbe, A Gallery Crawl, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, September 26, 2008. (review) 

Mary Abbe, Culture Crash, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, March 27, 2005. (article)


Mary Abbe, Strength of Show, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, August 25, 1989. (review) 

Mary Abbe, Fair Exhibits, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, August 23, 1991. (review) 

Mary Abbe, Several Galleries, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, May 27, 1995. (review) 

David Anger, Cohesive Bold Art, Equal Time, June 19, 1992 (article)


David Anger, Person Column, Q Monthly, June 1995. (article)


Graffito Magazine, Premeire Issue, September, 1993. (illustration)


The James White Review, Spring Summer, 1997. (illustrations) 

PANELS AND JURIES 

2005     Guest Lecturer, Stanford University Department of Art, Palo Alto, CA.


2004     Presenter, 2004 Bay Guardian GOLDIE Awards, to Xylor Jane for Visual Art, San Francisco, CA. 

2000     Panelist, Visual Arts Advisory Panel, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.


1999     Juror, Tom of Finland Foundation Annual Emerging Erotic Artist Competition, Los Angeles, CA.


1999     Panelist, You Are Here, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA. 

            Symposium sponsored by Southern Exposure, New Langton Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission. 

CURATOR

2019     Curator, Force Fields and Atmospheres, online exhibit, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA.

2014     Co-Curator, Yukari Sakura, Animals, Creativity Explored at the SF SPCA, San Francisco, CA. 

1997 -   2000  Curator, ESP Gallery, San Francisco, California.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (CURATOR)

2000 Prettytown Parts 1 & 2: Queer Americana in San Francisco


2000 PURE 5 California Photographers: Aaron Plant, Maizie Gilbert, Kelli Yon, Tobin Yelland, Ed Templeton


1999 EROTIC: Unsolicited Works from the Tom of Finland Archive


1999 Peek-a-boo: DL Alvarez, Geoff Chadsey, Cliff Hengst, Xylor Jane, Tracy Nakayama, Michelle Rollman


1999 NEW: Three Emerging Artists: Karen Kersten, Jake Hartman, and Timothy Taylor


1999 Black Party: Drawings by Annika von Hausswolf, Johan Zetterqvist and Marc Swanson 

1998 Stuck: San Francisco Sticker Art


1998 NOW: Four Emerging Artists: Amy Balkin, Christopher Garrett, Rafael Melendez, Kehinde Wiley


1998 TIME ZERO: Artists and Polaroids 1997 Survey Show: ESP Artists 

SOLO/TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS (CURATOR) 

1999 Paul Rowley and David Phillips, Flowery 

1999 Matt Mayfield, In Memory of the Children 

1999 Rachel Neubauer, Rendevous 

1999 Leah Modigliani, Bildungsroman


1999 Darin Klein and Sean O'Dell, New Work


1999 Susanne Cockrell/Curtis Hsiang, New Work


1998 Mike Pare, Pacific Time


1998 Steven Brown/Bigfoot, New Work


1998 Brandon Kiel/Aaron Plant, New Work


1998 Kathryn Lybarger/Dan Tiffany, New Work


1998 Arnold Kemp, Arnold J. Kemp


1998 Tobin Yelland, Skateboarders


1998 Marc Swanson, Bats Like Me


1997 Nina Ackerberg and Kathryn Lybarger, New Work


1997 Heidi Brant/Shane Valentino, I'm Just Filthy (DJ Nosferatu and Her Little Black Beamer) 

1997 Bruno Fazzolari and Paul Sietsema, Watery


1997 Kevin Hill, New Work


1997 Sandra Wong, New Work


1997 Mike Pare, World Sports


1997 Paul Craven, Destination Out


1997 Darin Klein, New Work