Manuel MATHIEU
Manuel Mathieu completed his MFA at Goldsmiths in 2016. Since then, his work has found homes worldwide in private collections, museums and institutions such as Museum of Civilization of Québec, Grand Palais in Paris, ICA in London ; in the collections of JP Morgan in New York, the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts and Hydro Québec. He recently finished a residency at the renown Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany and will have his first Canadian museum solo show at the Museum of Fine arts of Montréal in fall 2020.
While Mathieu’s trajectory may be easily traced to his Haitian upbringing, his work articulates his positionality from a multitude of realities and perspectives. The abstractness of his work conveys the abundance in existing at the intersection of racial, geographical, and cultural identities. He expands his artistic repertoire to delve into subjects that investigate themes of historical violence, erasure, as well as Haitian visual cultures of physicality, nature, and religious symbolism. He takes us along a journey that brings pleasure and purpose in being vulnerable and ever-changing. His compositions carve out space for us to reflect on Haiti’s transformative heritage while inviting us to consider the different futures the act of remembering creates.
EDUCATION
2016 Goldsmiths, University of London Masters in Fine Arts
2010 University of Quebec in Montréal (UQAM) Bachelors in Visual and Media Art
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Survivance, Museum of Fine arts of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Recent works, Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal,Canada
Chavire chodyè a, Maruani Mercier, Knokke Belgium
TBD, HDM Gallery London, UK
TBD, The power Plant, Toronto, Canada
2019 Wu ji, HDM Gallery, Beijing, China
2018 The Spell on You, Maruani Mercier, Brussels Belgium
Nobody is watching, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago USA
Solo booth, Armory Show NY, Tiwani Contemporary Gallery, New York USA
2017 Truth to Power, Tiwani Contemporary Gallery, London, UK Art Brussels, Maruani Mercier, Brussels Belgium
2016 One future, Goldsmiths Graduating show, London UK
2015 49/50, Fig 2, Curated by Fatos Üstek, Institute of Contemporary Art, London UK
2013 The Birth of Nature, Les Territoires Gallery, Montreal Canada
2012 PRÉMICES/OPEN ENDED, MAI Gallery, Montreal Canada
Abyss, Galerie Monnin, Haiti
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Relations: Diaspora and Painting, Fondation Phi, Montreal, Canada
Museum of Contemporary art of Montreal, Monrteal , Canada
Arco Madrid, Maruani Mercier, Madrid Spain
TBD, Song Art Museum, China
2019 The other side of now, PAMM, Miami USA Arco Madrid, Maruani Mercier, Madrid Spain
2018 CIRCA 2018 benefit exhibition, Montreal Canada
Playlist, Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal Canada
Here we are here: Black contemporary Canadian artist. Museum of fine arts Montreal, Montreal
Canada
Expo Chicago, Kavi Gupta, Chicago USA Frieze London, Kavi Gupta London UK
2017 Art Basel, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Miami USA
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Tiwani Contemporary, Marrakech Morocco
We are all very anxious, Dye House 451, London UK Foire Papier, Galerie Division, Montreal Canada
In-visibilité Ostentatoire, Fondation Clement, Martinique
2016 Deptford X Festival, London UK (commissioned work)
Will Nature Make a Man of Me Yet? PI Artworks, London UK Myth Material, TAP, London UK
2014 Haïti, 2 centuries of creations, Grand Palais, Paris France
Consisting of superposed Layers that sometimes partially merged, POPOP Gallery, Montréal
Canada
Les Contemporains, Artv Studio, Montréal Canada
Les Contemporains, Museum of Contemporary Art of Montréal Canada
Les Ateliers TD, ARSENAL, Montréal Canada
2013 In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art, Museum of Civilization Quebec City,
Quebec, Canada
On Common Ground, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C. USA
Haïti: Radical and contemporary, Grande Finale - 2013 A.R.T Fabric, Freland France
2012 Haïti: Radical and contemporary, Museum of Montparnasse, Paris France
2010 Two Man Show, Galerie Monnin, Haiti
RESIDENCIES/SCHOLARSHIPS
2019 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart Germany
Pamela Joyner, Sonoma USA
2014 Caribbean Linked 3 Residency, Aruba
2012 Mentorship program of the MAI (Montréal, arts intercultural) Montreal Canada
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
USA
Pamela Joyner
Rubell’s Family
JP Morgan
Hort‘s Family
Titus Kaphar
CANADA
Hydro Quebec
Museum of fine arts Montreal
Stephen Bronfman
Fondation Hamelys
Arsenal
Museum of Civilization of Quebec
National Museum of fine arts of Quebec
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2015 Fig-2 ICA London Student Open Call
2019 Sobey Art Award
Publications:
SELECTED PRESS
2019 Rianna Jade, “We Are Rebellious Souls: Manuel Mathieu Imagines a Caribbean of the
Future”,Frieze Online, (September 3)
2018 Emily Spencer, “‘Life experience sometimes forces you to see things that you wouldn’t other
wise have seen’” Studio International
Elbaor, Caroline, “‘Review Nobody is watching” Flash art Online
2017 Lisa Sproull, “Meet Montreal artist Manuel Mathieu” Cult Mtl
Selections Magazine, http://www.selectionsarts.com/2017/04/art-brussels/
2016 Harriet Clugston, “Freedom Through Art: An Interview With Rising Art Star Manuel Mathieu”
The culture trip
Elbaor, Caroline. “Why London Artist Manuel Mathieu is On His Way Up,” artnet News, news.artnet.com (September 19).
2015 Kozerek, Pippa. “Manuel Mathieu wins the fig-2 Student Open Call,” a-n.co.uk (September 17).
“Questions with Artists: Tiffany Barber talks to Manuel Mathieu,” StudioMuseum.org
“New Narratives of Haiti,” Transition Magazine #111, Indiana University Press (February 20).
2014 Mathieu, M. "Artist Statement." Callaloo, vol. 37 no. 4, 2014, pp. 947-950.
Crichlow, Michaeline, ed. Cultural Dynamics. Duke University Press. (Cover.)
CATALOGS
2018 Manuel Mathieu, Kavi Gupta, Chicago USA
The Spell on you, Maruani Mercier, Brussels Belgium
No. 1 Recueil, Manuel Mathieu, Montreal Canada