Matthew Buckingham (born 1963) is an American filmmaker and multimedia artist.
He is a full-time faculty member at
Columbia University
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and is the chair of the visual arts department.
Life and work
Buckingham studied at the
Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The museum is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago's Grant Park (Chicago), Grant Park. Its collection, stewa ...
, the
University of Iowa
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,
Bard College
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, and the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program.
Utilizing photography, film, video, audio, writing, and drawing his work questions the role that social memory plays in contemporary life. By examining ways that the past appears in the present, Buckingham also scrutinizes the power and effects of historical representation. His projects work with space, real and imaginary, to create physical and social contexts where viewers are encouraged to question received ideas—often the things that are most familiar. His works have investigated the Indigenous past and present in the Hudson River Valley; the ‘creative destruction’ of the city of St. Louis; the inception of the first English dictionary and the effects of radical Mary Wollstonecraft’s thoughts in our own time.
He is also a full-time faculty member at Columbia University and is the chair of the visual arts department.
Publications
*''Canal Street Canal''
*''Everything I Need''
*''False Future''
*''Improbable Horse''
*''A Man of the Crowd''
*''Messages from the Unseen''
*''Narratives''
*''One Side of Broadway''
*''Play the Story''
*''Sandra of the Tulip House or How to Live in a Free State''
*''The Six Grandfathers from the Cretaceous Period to the Present''
*''The Spirit and the Letter''
*''Subcutaneous''
*''Amos Fortune Road''
Exhibitions
He has had solo exhibitions at the
Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects. Located near the Prospect Heig ...
, New York; Glassel School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver;
Camden Arts Centre
Camden Art Centre (known as Hampstead Arts Centre until 1967 and Camden Arts Centre until 2020) is a contemporary art gallery in the London Borough of Camden, England. It hosts temporary exhibitions and educational outreach projects, with a prog ...
, London; Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver;
Dallas Museum of Art
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In the 1970s, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the A ...
, Dallas; Des Moines Arts Center, Des Moines; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee; FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Fundacion Telefónica, Madrid;
Hamburger Bahnhof
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, National Gallery, Berlin; Lunds Konsthall, Lund;
Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna;
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis; Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen; The Kitchen, New York; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster;
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
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. He participated in the 2006 Liverpool Biennial and the Third Guangzhou Triennial in 2008.
In the fall of 2019, Buckingham was included in the group exhibition "Ancient History of the Distant Future" at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1805, it is the longest continuously operating art museum and art school in the United States.
The academy's museum ...
(PAFA). Buckingham exhibited a work entitled, “The Six Grandfathers, Paha Sapa, in the Year 502,002 C.E.,” a digital print showing an eroded Mount Rushmore and a timeline of the mountain back to 66,000,000 B.C.E.
Awards
He was a guest of the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Program, 2003; recipient of the Freund Fellowship,
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) is a private research university in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1853 by a group of civic leaders and named for George Washington, the university spans 355 acres across its Danforth ...
, 2004; Artist-in-Residence at
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2006; resident of the IASPIS program, Stockholm, 2007; Artist-in-Residence at Artpace, San Antonio, 2007 and recipient of a
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award, 2009. He has also received fellowships and awards from
The New York State Council on the Arts and
The New York Foundation for the Arts.
References
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1963 births
Living people
American multimedia artists
Filmmakers from New York (state)
American conceptual artists
Washington University in St. Louis fellows
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
University of Iowa alumni
Bard College alumni
Columbia University faculty