ABOUT
Upcoming and current:
Clovermill Artist Residency, Netherlands - Oct 2021
Solo exhibitions:
ANTIPHON (Solo show) at The Florence Trust/St Saviours Studios - London UK - June 2021
IF ALL THAT WE ARE WISHING FOR IS POISON – StudionAme, Leicester UK – Aug-Sept 2020
NOW HERE'S MY PLAN, I WILL DO ANYTHING YOU SAY - Centrespace Gallery,Bristol UK - July 2015
Selected group exhibitions:
DANDELION - Delphian Gallery, Basel, Switzerland - Sept 2021
PULP - Florence Trust, London UK - Sept 2021
ANTISOCIAL ISOLATION - group show curated by Delphian Gallery at the Saatchi Gallery, London UK - Oct 2020 - 2021
ANCIENT DEITY – Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh UK – Sept-Oct 2020
JUST A SECOND - Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn NY USA - 2015
Other exhibitions:
Delphian Gallery 4th Anniversary Group Show - London UK, Aug 2021
WHELM (curator of group show) - Leicester Contemporary - Leicester UK, Aug 2021
Art on a Postcard Summer Auction Exhibition, Hoxton Gallery, London, UK, June 2021
TCOA Group Show - Leicester Contemporary - Leicester UK, June/July 2021
DIALOGS2020 CONTEMPORARY CONNECTION - La Spezia, Italy - Feb 2021 - tbc (online - physical exhibition to be announced when restrictions lift in Italy)
LIVE FROM THE DEEP END – (online) group exhibition – Gobstopper Gallery – Sept-Oct 2020
SPEC2 – LCB Depot, Leicester UK – Sept-Oct 2020
ROOMS - (online) group exhibition – Subsidiary Projects – April 2020
Matt Macken b.1986, UK. Macken has recently exhibited in various important group exhibitions such as ‘Antisocial Isolation’ by Delphian Gallery at Saatchi Gallery (London, UK) and ‘Ancient Deities’ at Arusha Gallery (Edinburgh, UK). His work belongs to various collectors around the world including the Soho House permanent art collection.
Macken's work mostly explores personal, expressive, figurative themes and aspects of the human condition through various mediums such as paint, pencil and collage on 2D surfaces such as canvas or paper.