Matthew Schofield
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Matthew Schofield is a Toronto based Canadian born artist who has been exhibiting his artwork in commercial galleries and artist run centres nationally and internationally since 1996. He has exhibited in New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, Miami, Toronto and Florence.He has exhibited with Kabat-Wrobel Gallery, MEG Gallery, DU art Gallery, Zia Gallery and Projects Gallery. He has participated in group and curated exhibitions At Loop Gallery; Propeller Gallery and AWOL Gallery. Matthew's work has been highlighted in Toronto Life Magazine, The Globe and Mail, and NOW Magazine. He is featured in the book Carte Blanche Volume 2: Painting, which is an overview of the state of Canadian painting in 2008. Matthew is a founding member of the blunt Collective, a group of artists investigating the role of narrative painting. In 2011 he was a finalist in the BP Portrait award in London, UK and is currently a finalist in the Kingston Prize for Portraiture. In 2009 he was also a finalist in the Kingston Prize for Portraiture. Matthew started his education in Architecture and ended it as an honours graduate in fine arts from both McMaster University and Ontario College of Art and Design. In 2001 Matthew was nominated for a Primetime Emmy and in 2006 he was nominated for an Oscar for his digital matte painting work in film.

Matthew is focused on observing the ignored. The overarching theme of his work has been painting images of the unnoticed snapshots and overlooked moments while attempting to order the outcome of random sequences. Matthew creates images that are accidental compositions unwittingly created by digging and sorting through boxes and piles of hundreds of moments of suspended animation. It is part of an on-going exploration of collecting and hording of the incidental random moments in photographs. The resulting images are painted versions of the original photographs contemplated and filtered through the painter's eyes and hands resulting in the ordered outcome of the cumulative imagery.



Solo Exhibitions

2011                         Place holder, James Buttrum & Son Art, Supercrawl, Hamilton, Ontario.
2009                         Making the Most of Snap Decisions, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.                                
2006                         (almost) everything, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
2003                         Keeping a Distance, Kabat Wrobel Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
2001                         Stills, PROPELLER Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, Ontario.
                                 Hiding Place, Hamilton and Region Arts Council, Hamilton, Ontario.
                                 Physiognomy, New Space, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
1999                         Drawing a Crowd, PROPELLER, Toronto, Ontario.
1998                         Inaction Figures, PROPELLER, Toronto, Ontario.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012                         Aqua Art Miami, with Blunt Collective, Miami, Florida, USA
                                 13, Mulherin + Pollard, New York, NY, USA
                                 Toronto International Art Fair, with Blunt, Toronto, Ontario.
                                 Gallery Artists, Zia Gallery, Winnetka, Illinois, USA
                                 Cutlog art fair, Spree Gallery, Paris, France
                                 San Francisco Fine Art Fair, San Francisco California.
                                 AAFLA, with Blunt Collective, Los Angeles, California
2011                         Three Painters, Zia Gallery, Winnetka, Illinois, USA
                                 Aqua Art Miami, with Blunt Collective, Miami, Florida, USA
                                 Toronto International Art Fair, with Projects Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
                                 AAFNY, with Blunt Collective, New York, NY
                                 Gallery Artists, Zia Gallery, Winnetka, Illinois, USA
                                 BP Portrait Exhibition Finalist, London, UK
                                 Little Treasures - Big Rewards, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
                                 Fresh & Salty, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
2010                         Aqua Art Miami, with Blunt Collective, Miami, Florida, USA.
                                 AAFNY, with Blunt Collective, New York, NY.
                                 Artist Project, with Blunt Collective, Toronto, Ontario.
                                 Group exhibition, D U Art, Unionville, Ontario
                                 BIG/SMALL, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario.
2009                         NEXT Art Fair, with Blunt Collective, Chicago, Illinois.
2007                         Squared Off, AWOL Gallery, Toronto Ontario.
                                 Affordable Art Fair, New York, USA.                 
2006                         Propeller turns 10, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
                                 Square Foot 5, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
                                 AAFNY, The Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, New York.
2005                         Square Foot IV, Project Spaceman, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
                                 AAFNY, AWOL Gallery, Pier 92, New York, New York.
                                 Square Foot, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
2002                         WhOLE, 376 Dufferin St., Toronto, Ontario.
                                 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario.
                                 Art Strikes Back, A.W.O.L. offsite gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
2001                         Standard, 376 Dufferin St., Toronto, Ontario.
                                 Drawing 2001, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
                                 Killing Time, (curator Gregory Klages), PROPELLER, Toronto, Ontario.
2000                         Loop + 1, Loop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
                                 Exile on James Street, Hamilton, Ontario.
                                 Alternating Currents, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario.
1999                         Ritual Rhythm & Repeated Actions, (curator Virginia MacDonnell), PROPELLER, Toronto.
                                 SPF 30, MEG Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (3 person exhibition).
                                 re:Production, (invitational slideshow - curator Don Simmons), The Rivoli, Toronto, Ontario.
                                 McMaster Curated Show, Henderson Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario.
1998                         screen 2, curator Stuart Reid (curator, Mississauga Living Arts Centre),
                                 PROPELLER Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
                                 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario.
                                 Enter, PROPELLER, Toronto, Ontario.
1997                         Vernissage, Vaughan Estate, Toronto, Ontario.
                                 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario. 1996
                                 Box, Ontario College of art and Design, Toronto, Ontario.
                                 25 Over 1 Bridge 2 Sides, OCAD Studio, Florence, Italy.

Published

2011                         BP Portrait Award 2011, National Portrait Gallery Publications, London, UK, 2011, p64.
2008                         Carte Blanche Vol. 2: Painting, Magenta Publishing for the Arts, Toronto, 2008.
2000                         Cable 14, Hamilton, Ontario, April 2000, 'Alternating Currents' 2000
                                 The Hamilton Spectator, 'Weekend Arts', Hamilton, Ontario, Saturday, May 6, 2000
                                 Regina Haggo, 'It's the energizer'. W6.
1999                         Artsbeat, Hamilton, Ontario, October-November 1999. (cover)
                                 Now Magazine, Sisi Peneloza, Aug 12, 1999; Toronto Life.
                                 Ritual Rhythm & Repeated Actions, Toronto, Ontario, October 1999.
                                 Virginia MacDonnell, Propeller annual curated show- Exhibition Catalogue.
                                 Artfocus, Toronto, Ontario, Fall 1999. Elizabeth Fearon, 'SPF30 @MEG Gallery'. 8
                                 The Globe and Mail, 'Gallery Going', Toronto, Ontario, Saturday, August 28, 1999.
                                 Gary Michael Dault, 'SPF 30 at MEG Gallery'. C10
                                 City TV, Toronto, Ontario, Saturday August 14, 1999.
                                 'SPF 30' NOW, Toronto, Ontario, August 12-18, 1999.

Education

2000                         Bachelor of Arts – Honours Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
1997                         AOCAD(Hons.) - Painting and Drawing Program,
                                 Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario.
1996                         Off Campus Program, Ontario College of Art, Florence, Italy
1991/1992                Architecture / Art History: Carleton University
                                
Lectures

2010                         Guest Artist Lecture - Toronto School of Art, Toronto, Ontario.

Memberships

2009 - present           Member of Toronto based BLUNT Collective.
1997 - 2001               Member of Propeller Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.