Lot 152 - Matt Smith - Figure Looking Right

ARTIST INFO

About 

Matt Smith is an artist who works with museum collections, often focused on their ceramic collections. Solo exhibitions include Losing Venus at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Flux: Parian Unpacked at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Who Owns History and Hove Museum and Queering the Museum at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. In 2010 he co-founded Unravelled Arts, curating artist interventions at National Trust properties and in 2015/16 he was artist in residence at the V&A. He holds a PhD in Queer Craft from the University of Brighton and was Professor of Craft at Konstfack, Stockholm. His work is held in the collections at the V&A, the Walker Art Gallery, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Crafts Council collection. In 2020 the Contemporary Art Society acquired a body of his work for Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. 

Education 

BA Ceramics University of Westminster, MA in Museum Studies University of Leicester, PhD University of Brighton 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

Solo Exhibitions 
2022 Who Owns History? At Hove Museum and Art Gallery  
2022 Losing Venus at Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford  
2020 Matt Smith: 2020 curated by Crafts Council England 
2018 Flux: Parian Unpacked, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge  
2016 Artist in Residence, Victoria and Albert Museum 
2012 Other Stories: Leeds University Art Collection  
2010 Queering the Museum, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery  
2010 Milk, ASPEX, Portsmouth 
 
Awards  
2022 Artworks Award, Visual Carlow Ireland  
2020 Acquisition grant from Contemporary Art Society to place works with  
Brighton Museum 
2020 Acquisition grant from Brookfield Properties to place work with Crafts Council 
Collection 
2018 Object of the Show Award at Collect, London 
2015 V&A bursary for six month Artist Residency in the Ceramics Galleries 
2014 Winner of Young Masters Ceramics Prize 
2009 Arc award, Aspex gallery  

Gallery Representation 

Cynthia Corbett Gallery 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 

Based on his Trouble with History series, these oil sketches are translations of distorted ceramic figures. Questioning autonomy and the silences in history, these altered figures question the grand, homogenising narratives of the past 

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