Matt King Visiting Artist Lecture

The Department of Fine Arts presents a visiting artist lecture by

Matt King

Wednesday, November 18, at 12:30 PM

Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University

601 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220

Matt King’s work examines the production, circulation, and use of familiar objects and images, expanding their capacity to turn the ordinary into the productively strange. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at The University of Georgia, Werkstätte Gallery, Massimo Audiello, Mass

Art, Reynolds Gallery and Fourteen30 Contemporary as well as group exhibitions at venues including Jane Lombard, Luhring Augustine, and the Vienna Kunsthalle. Honors include a VMFA Visual Arts Fellowship, a Mac

Dowell Fellowship, and visiting artist residencies at the Mountain Lake Biological Station; Fiskars Village, Finland; NCCA, St. Petersburg, Russia; and at the American Academy in Rome.

King has taught at institutions including Mass

Art, Cooper Union, Umass Dartmouth, and VC

Uarts where from 2015-2019 he served as Chair of the Department of Sculpture + Extended Media. He is currently a Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Milky (detail), mixed materials, 2023