Education

2002 M.F.A. Department of Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University

2000 B.F.A. Northern Illinois University

(Painting Major/Art History Minor)

Exhibition History

2012 (Upcoming) Two-Person Show with Dominick Talvacchio, Blue Star

Contemporary Art

Center, San Antonio, Texas

Fictional Space: Paintings and Prints by Joshua Bindewald, Matt

Irie, and Josh Reames, Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, Peoria,

Illinois

2011 Write Now, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois

You Are The Vanishing Point, (Solo), Ebersmoore, Chicago, Illinois

Spirit Fingers, (Solo), Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, Wisconsin

Efficacy, Two Person Show with Mark Arctander, Waubonsee Community

College, Sugar Grove, Illinois

Faculty Show, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, Illinois

2010 The Power of Selection, Part 3, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois

Ah Wilderness!, Ebersmoore, Chicago, Illionois

ArtPrize 2010, Women's City Club - Exhibition Center, Grand Rapids,

Michigan

Quarterly Site #3: Stay In Your Lane!, Swimming Pool Project Space,

Chicago, Illinois

2010 Beloit & Vicinity, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, Wisconsin

House Paintings, (Solo), Harper College Art Gallery, Palatine, Illinois

2009 Double Take, Collaboration with Dominick Talvacchio, Organized by the

Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, New York

LAB09, Collaboration with Dominick Talvacchio, Lulea Art Biennial,

Lulea, Sweden

Control C, Control V, EbersB9, Chicago, Illinois

2008 Vega Estates Presents, Collaboration with Dominick Talvacchio, Vega Estates, Chicago, Illinois

2007 Potentialities, (Solo) Collaboration with Dominick Talvacchio, Unit B Gallery, San Antonio, Texas

2006 Potentialities #4: Drips, Collaboration with Dominick Talvacchio, Open Studio Program, Chicago, Illinois

TRANS: Visual Culture Conference, Collaboration with Dominick Talvacchio, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Second Annual International Juried Exhibition, Juror, Robert Curcio, Collaboration with Dominick Talvacchio, The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, New Jersey

“Texture”, Arts and Literature Laboratory, New Haven, Connecticut

"Perfect", A Group Exhibition, Illinois State Museum, Lockport, Illinois

"Perfect", A Group Exhibition, Southern Illinois Art Gallery, Rend Lake, Illinois

2005 Chicago Sampler, Moser Performing Arts Center Gallery, University of St. Francis, Joliet, Illinois

“A Friend is a Friend is a Friend”, Collaboration with Dominick Talvacchio, Axtryx Gallery, San Antonio, Texas

"Perfect", A Group Exhibition, Art Museum of The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee

Annex, A Publication Functioning as an Exhibition Space, Curated by Gaylen Gerber, Edition of 50, Melbourne, Australia

"Perfect", A Group Exhibition, The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan

2004 Organically Grown in the Midwest, Purchase College SUNY, Purchase, New York

Collaborations, Collaboration with Dominick Talvacchio, NIU Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois

Pay Attention, Four-person show, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

The Rockford Midwestern Exhibition, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois

Art Boat 2004, Collaboration with Dominick Talvacchio, Chicago, Illinois

Writes of Passage, International Group Exhibition, Heuser Art Center Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois

"Perfect", A Group Exhibition, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois

2003 “Artists on the Map: Between Here and There” Collaboration with Dominick Talvacchio, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Art Boat 2003, “Look to the Horizon”, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Performance Three: The Multiple, Collaboration with Dominick Talvacchio, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Collectible, Curated by Julie Charmelo, NIU Art Museum Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2002 The Stray Show, “Out of the Unit Into The Stray Show”, Collaboration with Dominick Talvacchio, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, IL

305.21 Miles: The Distance Between Us, Collaboration with Dominick Talvacchio, Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Visual Art Scholarship Competition, Union League Civic & Arts Foundation, Chicago, Illinois

2001 Up Up & Away…, The Viewing Room, New York, New York

Awards and Honors

2010 Juror’s Award/Best in Show, 2010 Beloit & Vicinity, Wright Museum of

Art, Beloit,Wisconsin

2006 Open Studio Program, One-Month Residency, December, Chicago, Illinois

Awarded Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, Illinois

2005 Awarded Commission for Permanent Installation by the Chicago Arts Program, Chicago Public Library, Logan Square Branch, Chicago, Illinois

2004 “Best in Show” Rockford Art Museum’s Midwestern Exhibition, (Juror, James Rondeau), Rockford, Illinois

2002 Visual Art Scholarship, Union League Civic & Arts Foundation

2001 Northwestern University Teaching Assistant Appointment

2000 Northwestern University Teaching Assistant Appointment

Bibliography

Stephen Knudsen, “Chicago Artist Matt Irie: Worth a Second Look,” Chicago Art Magazine,

November 14, 2011

The Week, “Where to by,” September 9, 2011

Ryan Travis Christian, “Artist Interview: Matt Irie,” Interview on BeautifulDecay.com,

September, 8 2011

Noah Berlatsky, (Reader Recommends) “Matt Irie’s deceptive grid paintings, at Ebersmoore,”

Chicago Reader, August 11, 2011

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2011

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Talks and Lectures

2011 Visiting Artist, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Visiting Artist, Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, Illinois

2010 Visiting Artist, William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, Illinois

2009 Visiting Artist, Accidental Publics, Northwestern University and The School of the

Art Institute of Chicago, Evanston & Chicago, Illinois

2008 Visiting Artist, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, Texas

2005 Visiting Artist, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Visiting Artist, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois