EDUCATION
MFA Studio Art, University of California, Irvine, 2004
BFA Photography, California State University, Long Beach, 1998
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
Library, Danziger Gallery, New York, US
2014
Special Problems, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK
The Populist Camera, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013
Library, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2012
HORIZON/S, University of California Riverside, Museum of Photography, CA
Matt Lipps, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK
2011
HORIZON/S, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
HORIZON/S, Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Women?s Heads), billboard project on La Cienega Blvd., LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Matt Lipps: HOME, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008
Horses, The Office, Huntington Beach, CA
2006
Cut, Harvey Levine Gallery, Project Room, Culver City, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Imagine Reality, RAY 2015 Fotografie Triennale, galerie Eva und Marion Meyer, Frankfurt, D
2014
Specific Inventory, galerie Eva Meyer, Paris, F
Under Construction: New Positions in American Photography, FOAM Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Secondhand, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
Ones and Zeros, curated by Jeanne Gerrity and Amy Owen, di Rosa Art Collection, Napa, CA
The Thing Itself, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Holding It Together: Collage, Montage, Assemblage, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Soft Target, organized by Phil Chang and Matthew Porter, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Unsparing Quality, curated by Farrah Karapetian, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Inaugural Group Show: Gallery Artists, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Staking a Claim: A California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Masquerade, High House Gallery, Oxfordshire, UK
Reality Check, 44AD artspace, Bath, UK
2012
Set-Up, curated by Stephen Hepworth, Jousse Enterprise, Paris France
Battleground States, Aaron Moulton, curator, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, UT
Art Faculty Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, CA
Daegu Photo Biennale: Photography is Magic!, Charlotte Cotton, curator, Daegu, South Korea
Figure and Form in Contemporary Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Tilt/Shift: New Queer Perspectives on the Western Edge, organized by Darin Klein, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2011
US EST, organized by Soo Kim, Pepin Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Greater L.A., organized by Eleanor Cayre, Benjamin Godsill, and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
As Yet, Untitled: Artists & Writers in Collaboration, SF Camerawork, CA
Assembly: 8 Emerging Photographers from Southern California, Fred Torres Collaborations, New York, NY
2010
Cutters / Berlin: An Exhibition of International Collage, Pool Gallery, Berlin, Germany
FotoFest 2010 Biennial, Assembly: 8 Emerging Photographers from Southern California, Houston, TX
After Image, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
2009
Cutters, James Gallagher, Curator, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Related Work, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Living History II: Asad Faulwell & Matt Lipps, works selected by Marc Selwyn & Dean Valentine, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Tainted Love, curated by Steven Lam & Virginia Solomon for Visual AIDS, La Mama La Galleria, NYC
Inside Of You, PHIL, Los Angeles, CA
The Banality of Good, Claremont Graduate University Gallery, Claremont, CA
2008
APhF:08 | Athens Photo Festival, Hellenic Centre for Photography, Athens, Greece
Matt Lipps / Caroline May, The Apartment, Athens, Greece
BUMP: Recent + Rarely Seen Explicit Videos from Southern California Artists, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2007
OFF HOURS, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
SHOW, Heather Cantrell, Curator, The Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Rainbow Goblins, Darin Klein, Curator, The Advocate and Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Photography Unbound, Heather Murray, Curator, California State University, San Bernadino, CA
Libertine Society presents: The Nature of Excess, L2kontemporary, Los Angles, CA
Great American Nude, Matt Wardell, Curator, Harvey Levine Gallery, Culver City, CA
Organica, Autumn Beck & Chloë Flores, Curators, enView Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2005
Come Together, enView Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Log Cabin, Jeffrey Uslip, Curator, Artists Space, New York, NY
2004
Rendering Gender, Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO
SUPERSONIC: 1 Windtunnel, 8 Schools, 120 Artists, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2014
Joseph Akel, "In Focus: Matt Lipps," Frieze Magazine, Issue 163, May 2014.
Danica Willard Sachs, "Review: The Populist Camera," ArtPractical.com, access date: April 21, 2014.
Mikko Lautamo, "Matt Lipps @ Jessica Silverman Gallery," SquareCylinder.com, access date April 14, 2014.
Timothée Chaillou, ?Nouvelle Scéne Californienne,? Numéro Magazine, April 2014. 92-96.
Sarah Hotchkiss, ?Collecting Images with ?The Populist Camera,?? KQED Arts, access date: April 1, 2014.
Jody Zellen, ?Matt Lipps: Library Review,? AfterImage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, March 2014.
Kimberly Chun, "Artist Looks at our Relationship to Photography," exhibition review, San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 2014
Andrew Zizik & Blaise Danio, ?Profile of the Artist / Matt Lipps,? The Seen, access date: January 13, 2014.
2013
Leah Ollman, ?Review: Matt Lipps? ?Library? of photographic images,? Los Angeles Times, November 19, 2013
Staking a Claim: A California Invitational, exhibition catalog, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Contributing Artist, Aperture, 210 Spring, p. 6
Charlotte Cotton, ?Nine Years, A Million Conceptual Miles,? Aperture Magazine, Spring 2013
2012
Photography is Magic!, Daegu Photo Biennale, exhibition catalog, p. 132- 137
Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, Booth-Clibborn Editions, exhibition catalog
Labong, Leilani, ?Ten to Watch: Rising Stars of the Art World,? CA Home + Design, April 2012, p. 58
2011
Seth Curcio, ?HORIZON/S: An Interview with Matt Lipps, DailyServing.com, 19 November 2011
Natilee Harren, ?Reviews: Matt Lipps, Artforum, November 2011, p. 280-81
Francesca Gavin, ?Artist Profile: Matt Lipps, Twin Bi-Annual Style Book, 2011 (Fall)?
Jody Zellen, ?Review: Matt Lipps, Art Ltd., Sept/Oct. 2011, p. 36?
Geoff Tuck, ?Matt Lipps: HORIZON/S at Marc Selwyn,? NotesOnLooking.com, Nov. 2011
David Pagel, ?Modern, Ancient Connect,? exhibition review Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2011
Carmen Winant, ?Art Review: HORIZON/S,? KQED Arts, 25 July 2011
Roberta Smith, ?A Bit of Hollywood, Minus the Tinsel,? New York Times, 31 May 2011
2010
Matt Sussman, ?Year In Art,? San Francisco Bay Guardian, 21 December 2010
?Hot Shots: A Selection from Photography?s New Guard,? Modern Painters, November 2010
Carrie Yury, ?Reinventing Photography: Hybrid Photographic Forms,? Huffington Post.com, Nov 2010
Jean Dykstra, ?Dispatches from the Brink,? Art in America, June-July 2010: p. 80
Victoria Gannon, HOME, Art Practical. 18 May 2010
Julia E. Hamilton, The Great Indoors, Artslant. 5 June 2010
Grant Wahlquist, HOME @ Silverman Gallery, ARThood. 6 June 2010
FotoFest 2010 Biennial, Contemporary U.S. Photography, exhibition catalog, 2010
2009
Portfolio, ANPQuarterly, Vol. 2/#4, p. 64-71
Christopher Miles, ?Living History II: Asad Faulwell & Matt Lipps,? LA Weekly, May 06, 2009
2008
Picnic Magazine #3, Adi Engleman, Mier Kordevani, and Toony Navok, editors, Tel Aviv, Israel. p. 446.
Shifter Magazine, Intimate, Sreshta Premnath & Steven Lam, editors, New York, NY. p. 48-50.
2007
Kathryn Hargreaves, ?Off Hours,? Artillery, Nov/December 2007, p. 39.
Chad Clark, ?Horses,? Frontiers Magazine, February 27, 2007, p. 102.
2006
THING: New Penis Art in America, Darin Klein, Editor
2005
Matthew Higgs, ?Best of 2005,? (for Log Cabin exhibition) Artforum, December, 2005, 258.
Holland Cotter, ?Art in Review; ?Log Cabin.?? New York Times, January 28, 2005