Education
2002 M.F.A.
Department of Art Theory and Practice,
Northwestern University
2000 B.F.A. Northern Illinois University
2021 Arresting Gestures, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2020 SCRAWL, Matt Irie & Daniel Cummings, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA
2016 Art Works Chicago, Rise Over Run: Featuring Todd Chilton, Matt Irie, & Morgan Sims,
Metropolitan Capital Bank, Chicago, IL
2013 Imaginary Friends, Matt Irie & Geoffrey Todd Smith, Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery, Chicago, IL
Odds and Ins, Gallery One & Two, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL
2012 Lines and Other Curves: Matt Irie & Dominick Talvacchio, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX
2011 You Are The Vanishing Point, Ebersmoore, Chicago, IL
Spirit Fingers, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI
Efficacy, Matt Irie & Mark Arctander,
Waubonsee
Community College, Sugar Grove, IL
2010 House Paintings, Harper College Art Gallery, Palatine, IL
2007 Potentialities, Unit B Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2006 Potentialities #4: Drips, Open Studio Program, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Good Looks Aren't the Only Thing That Matters, Superdutchess, New York, NY
2018 NoNonchalant: Abstraction by Ten Chicago Artists, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL
SWEET, Golden and Delicious..."Faculty-select and Museum-certified" NIU Studio and DesignAlumni Artists, NIU Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
2016 23rd Evanston and Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
How High?, curated by Ryan Travis Christian & Travis Fish, Left Field Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
San Luis Obispo, CA
FRIENDS, Mulberry Gallery, Richmond, VA
Hyper/Hypo, It’s All About Things, Port Chester, NY
Ducks, Minotaur Projects, Los Angeles, CA
(I'd like to suggest) Linger On, Chicago,IL
2014 Ducks, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Rocket Run:Abstractions From Chicago, Nebraska Wesleyan University's Elder Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Material Matters, Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery, Chicago, IL
35 Years of Public Art, The Chicago Cultural
Center, Chicago, IL
Ugly Smile, Peanut Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 Nexus 2013, Indoor Sculpture Exhibit, U.T. Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2012 2012 Evanston and Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Where My Cones At? II, POVevolving
Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
Where My Cones At?, Double Break, San Diego, CA
Fictional Space: Paintings and Prints by Joshua
Bindewald, Matt Irie, & Josh Reames,
Contemporary Art
Center of Peoria, Peoria, IL
2011 Write Now, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2010
The Power of Selection, Part 3,
Western Exhibitions,
Chicago, IL
Ah Wilderness!, Ebersmoore, Chicago, IL
Quarterly Site #3: Stay In Your Lane!, Swimming
Pool
Project
Space, Chicago, IL
2010 Beloit & Vicinity, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI
Center, Brooklyn, NY
LAB09, Lulea Art Biennial, Lulea, Sweden
Control C, Control V, EbersB9, Chicago, IL
2008 Vega Estates Presents, Vega Estates, Chicago, IL
TRANS: Visual Culture Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Second Annual International Juried Exhibitiion, Juror, Robert Curcio, The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ
“Texture”, Arts and Literary Laboratory, New Haven, CT
"Perfect", A Group Exhibition, Illinois State Museum, Lockport, IL
"Perfect", A Group Exhibition, Southern Illinois Art Gallery, Rend Lake, IL
2005 Chicago Sampler, Moser Performing Arts Center Gallery, University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL
“A Friend is a Friend is a Friend”, Axtryx Gallery, San Antonio, TX
"Perfect", A Group Exhibition, Art Museum of The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
"Perfect", A Group Exhibition, The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2004 Organically Grown in the Midwest, Purchase College SUNY, Purchase, NY
Collaborations, NIU Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Pay Attention, Four-person show, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Rockford Midwestern Exhibition, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Art Boat
2004, Chicago, IL
Writes of Passage, International Group Exhibition, Heuser Art Center Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
"Perfect",
A Group Exhibition, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2003 “Artists on the Map: Between Here and There”, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, IL
Performance Three: The Multiple, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, IL
Collectible, Curated by Julie Charmelo, NIU Art Museum Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 The Stray Show, “Out of the Unit Into The Stray Show”, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, IL
305.21 Miles: The Distance Between Us, Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Up Up & Away…, The Viewing Room, New York, NY
Heather Joyner Spica, “Artists From Near and Far Herald a New Season with ‘Nexus 2013,’” Metro Pulse, April, 3 2013
Stephen Knudsen, “Chicago Artist Matt Irie: Worth a Second Look,” Chicago Art Magazine, November 14, 2011
The Week, “Where to buy,” 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
Abraham Ritchie, “Matt Irie: You are the Vanishing Point,” review on Flavorpill.com, August, 2011
Norbert Marszalek, “Interview with Matt Irie,” Interview on Neotericart.com, October, 2010
New American Paintings #89, Midwest Edition, Open Studios Press, 2010
Sculpture Magazine, “Itinerary,” July August 2010
Michael Kaplan, “Art Goes Alfresco,” Celebrated Living, Summer 2010
New York Magazine, “What the . . . ,” November 9, 2009
Carol Vogel, “Whitney Gets Works by William Eggleston; Playful in Brooklyn,” The New York Times, October 22, 2009
Noah Belatsky, “Control C, Control V,” Chicago Reader, August 15, 2009
Elaine Wolff, “Art Capades,” San Antonio Current, May 23, 2007
Judy Birke, “Message sometimes lost in medium in AL