Christy Matson

Lives and works in Los Angeles

Education

2005 California College of the Arts (CCA), MFA
2001 University of Washington, BFA

Exhibitions

2017 Material as Metaphor, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Wunderkammer, Volume Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 Warped, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Asheville, NC
2017 The Craft School Experince, Craft in America, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Design Miami, Volume Gallery, Miami, FL
2016 *Haptic, Volume Gallery, Miami, FL
2016 Warped, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Asheville, NC
2016 Lines That Tie, San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
2015 Expo Chicago, Volume Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 A Tendency Towards Textitles, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
2015 California Handmade: State of the Arts, The Maloof Foundation, Alta Loma, CA
2015 Over Under, Lula, Chicago, IL
2014 The International Caft Design Exhibition on Natural Dyes, Taiwan
2014 Stones Show, Kiosk, New York City, NY
2013 Traces and Accumulations, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
2013 Kiosk, Launch F18, New York City, NY
2012 The Sun Doesn’t Show through the Mist Until Noon, Alderman Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2012 40 under 40, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
2011 Rwind Into the Future, Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas Lithuania
2011 Laurie Herrick: Weaving Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
2011 Hang in There, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
2011 The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
2011 Future Positive, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Stitched Ground, Design Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2011 Craft Meets Technology, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts, Louisville, KY
2011 The loom: on, around and through, Society of the Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
2010 Hand+Made Contemporary, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
2010 The New Materality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft, Fuller Museum, Boston, MA
2010 The Quantum Field, Public Pool, Detroit, MI
2010 Spirited Calligraphy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2010 Binary Fiction, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
2010 Stretching Distillment, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Psychic Reality, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Vinosonic, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL
2009 Sight+Sound, Flippo Gallery, Randolph Macon University, Ashland, VA
2009 NEXT: Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, ThreeWalls, Chicago, IL
2009 Ill Communication, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 The Long Gallery, http://www.whyandwherefore.com/
2009 *Between Fiction and Make Believe, LivingRoom Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Inspired Design, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Hendersonville, NC
2008 Grounded (in conjunction with NPR’s exhibition FRELAB), Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL
2008 Improv Performance, South Bay Talent Center (a project by Jon Brumit), San Jose, CA
2008 Inspired Design, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Hendersonville, NC
2008 Resounding the Environment, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2008 Premio Valcellina, Municipio di Maniago, Pordenone Italy
2007 Plain Weave Variations FAB Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2007 Beats Per Minute, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
2007 Bionic Threads (with Sabrina Gschwandtner), Hype Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2007 Threads, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA
2007 Decode (with Jason Van Anden), Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, PA
2007 Technicalities: Digital Weaving, Gage Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Wide Examination, M.K. Ciurlionis National Musuem of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania
2007 Innovative Weaving, Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
2006 Dressing Light (in collaboration with Anke Loh), Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2006 These Are Textiles? Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, MA
2006 Installation/Innovation: Textile Art in the 21st Century, San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design San Francisco, CA
2006 Haystack Faculty Exhibit, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle ME
2005 New Fangle, Gen Art, San Francisco, CA
2005 CCA M.F.A. Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005 Critical Wetwear, Isabel Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA
2005 Textiles is a State of Mind, South Gallery, Oakland, CA
2004 Digital Origins: Emerging American Textile Artists, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2004 Material Matters, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Rhythms of Crochet, (National Traveling Exhibition) Atlanta, GA
2001 2001 Exhibition, Palazzi Pio, Rome, Italy

Awards and Residencies

2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award Nominee
2008 Il Premio Valcellina, Citta di Maniago, Italy
2008 City of Chicago, CAAP Artist Grant
2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award Nominee
2005 Dennis Leon Award, California College of the Arts
2004-2005 Toni A. Lowenthal Memorial Scholarship, California College of the Arts
2003-2004 Toni A. Lowenthal Memorial Scholarship, California College of the Art