Matt Siber
Education
2003
Master of Fine Arts (Photography) Columbia College Chicago; Chicago, IL
1994
Bachelor of Arts (History and Geography) University of Vermont; Burlington, VT.
Grants/Residencies
2010
ACRE Artist's Residency, Chicago
2004
Aaron Siskind Foundation, Individual Photographer's Fellowship, New York, NY
2005
Illinois Arts Council, Artist's Fellowship Award, Chicago, IL
2004
Aaron Siskind Foundation, Individual Photographer's Fellowship, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2015
Idol Structures
2011
No Place in Particular: Images of the American Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville Florida
Metropolis – City Life in the Urban Age, Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, Groningen, Niederlande
2010/11
Johalla Projects, Chicago. Galeria Ysabel Pinyol, Barcelona, Spain
2008
Galerie Antoni Pinyol, Reus, Spain
Billi Rubin Gallery, Berlin
2006
PhotoEspaña, La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain.
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL.
Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL
Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL.
2005
Galeria Antoni Pinyol, Reus, Spain.
Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL.
2003
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions
2015
The DePaul Art Museum Chicago
2014
Konstellationen, Galerie f5,6, Munich
Breaking Ground, Andrews Gallery
College of William & Mary,
Williamsburg
2011
Life Imitates Artiface, CSU Art Gallery, Cleveland State University
Write Now, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
2010
In the Vernacular, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Beyond Pixeltorialism: Digital Photography in the 21st Century, College of Lake County, Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, Grayslake, IL
Voice Between Lines, La Panera, Llieda, Spain
CONTACT Toronto: The Mechanical Bride, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, TorontoFestival Images, Outdoor Exhibition, Vevey, Switzerland
2009
Site Seeing: Explorations of Landscape, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Backlight 2008, Centre D'Art, Dudelange, Luxembourg
Stranger Than Fiction, OHT Gallery, Boston, MAFotofestiwal Lodz 2009/Backlight 2008, Lodz. Poland
2008
In and Out of Place, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
ARCO Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Backlight 2008, Tampere, Finland/Florence, Italy/Lodz, Poland
Alumni Exhibition, Coburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
2007
ARCO Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
The Power of Language, The Academy of Arts (The Goethe Institute), Berlin.
People, Buildings and Cars: New Chicago Photography, The Vermont Center for Photography,
Brattleboro, VT.
2006
ARCO Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Art Madrid, Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain.
Well Read, NURTUREart Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
New Trends in Chicago Photography, Version Fest 06, Chicago, IL.
2005
Fotofestiwal Lódz 2005, Lódz, Poland.
Footcandles: History and Process in Contemporary Photography, Indiana State University, Terre
Haute, IN.
Matt Siber and David John Flynn, Torre Vella, Salou, Spain.
THE ABC Power and Communication: Semiotics and Resistance, Galerie Neurotitan, Berlin.
Chicago, My Chicago, Orleans Street Gallery, St. Charles, IL.
Skinless Capital: Neoliberalism and Resistance, Opensource, Champaign, IL.
2004
Conversations: Text and Image, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL.
Art Chicago 2004, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL.
Chicago LAND/SPACE/PLACE, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Giganticism, Gigantic Art Space, New York, NY.
2003
Wegway Juried Exhibition, SPIN Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Columbia College Graduate Thesis Show, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Fractured Lines, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Collections
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL.
The Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellows Collection, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
COFF Foundation, San Sebastián, Spain.
Publications
2007
O-Monografi as #5 (Town), Coruña, Spain.
Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, Robert Hirsch, Focal Press.
Sublime, Madrid (n. 20).
2006
ArtForum (September)
Type, Image, Message, Nancy Skolos and Thomas Wedell, Rockport Publishing.
Photography Now: one hundred portfolios, Wright State University, Dayton, OH.
El Cultural (El Mundo), Madrid, Spain. (July 6-12)
ABCD, Madrid, Spain. (July 8-14)
2005
Visual Communications, SAGE Publications, London, England. (February)
LiP Magazine, Oakland, CA. (No. 5)
The National Post, Arts, Culture and Society Section, Toronto, ON. (May 13)
8.5 Magazine, Irvine, CA. (no.10)
Etapes Magazine, Paris. (September)
2004
Flash Art International, Milan, Italy. (April/May)
Fotopozytyw, •ód•, Poland. (no.7)
Mood Magazine, Milan, Italy. (April)
Polar Inertia Online Journal, www.polarintertia.com. (May)
Sites, 6×6 Book Series, Columbia College Chicago.
Aperture, New York, NY. (Fall)
EXIT Magazine, Madrid, Spain. (Nov.-Dec.)
2003
Wegway Magazine, Toronto, ON.