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BIOGRAPHY

Matthew S. Sontheimer

1969 Born in New Orleans, LA

Currently lives and works in Houston, TX

Education

1995 M.F.A., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

1992 B.F.A., Stephen F. Austin Sate University, Nacogdoches, TX

1989-90 Syracuse University, Florence, Italy

Solo Exhibitions            Group Exhibitions

2006

The Past Made Present: Contemporary Art and Memory, Museum of Fine Art, Houston

2005

Sent Off and Revealed Counted Down and Sealed, Achim Moeller, New York, NY

2004

So That I am Not Exactly Alone, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2003

New Work, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

Within A Name, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY

The Case of a Stair, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2002

Re-son, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2001

Remarks, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Drawings, Devin Borden/Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

2000

Matthew Sontheimer, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1999

New Drawings, Devin Borden/Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

1996

Drawings, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1995

Storyline, Haynes Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

Group Exhibitions            Solo Exhibitions

2007

Drawn From New Orleans: Twentieth-Century Works from Private Collections, Newcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA

SouthwestNET: Drawing Outside the Lines, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

2006

Ripped from the Pages, Space 125 Gallery, Houston, TX

2005

Conceptual Art in Louisiana, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

Raw Data: Conceptual Art in Louisiana, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans

Color, Pattern, Grid: Selections from the Austin Museum of Art and Austin Collections, Austion Museum of Art, Downtown, Texas

Artadia @ Diverse Works, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas

Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York

2004

5th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter-Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

Matthew Sontheimer and Jasmin Sian, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, California

2003

Flip, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

New Work, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

International Paper: Drawings by Emerging Artists, Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

2002

Next, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Labrynth, Devin Borden Hiram Butler, Houston, TX

2001

Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

Outline: Emily Joyce, Matthew Sontheimer, and Hills Snyder, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX

2000

Making a Mark: Experimental Drawing and Printmaking, University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI

1999

Helen Altman, Matthew Sontheimer, Liz Ward, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas

Hot Spots: Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, traveled to Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA

Texas Draws, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1998

Artistic Centers in Texas: Houston/ Galveston, Galveston Arts Center, TX, traveled to TX Fine Arts Association, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin; University of North TX Art Gallery, Denton; Museum of Southwest, Midland, TX

New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA

Textual Negotiations, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX

Terms of Negotiation (performance), Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX

Selected Works, Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX

Lemonade - Fresh Squeezed and Tangy, Wells Fargo Plaza and Lobby Gallery, Houston, TX

Only Ever Half Transcendent, Diverse Works, Houston, TX

1997

Tina Merrin and Matthew Sontheimer, Sally Sprout Gallery, Houston, TX

Equal Pay, Revolution Summer Art Space, Houston, TX

1996

The Business of Art Exhibition: Works by 24 Emerging Artists, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA

Get Gifted Holiday Exhibit, Lynn Goode Gallery, Houston, TX

Product or Process: A Condition of Drawing, Cactus Bra Gallery, San Antonio, TX

1995

GroupShow: Frederick Brown, Herb Ritts, Matthew Sontheimer, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

The Big Show, (Juror: Paul Schimmel), Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX

Bozeman Draws, Beall Park Art Center, Bozeman, MT

Graduate Exhibit, Haynes Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

Public Collections

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

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