Matthew Ritchie

Matthew Ritchie lives in New York. He attended Boston University and the Camberwell School of Art in London, from which he earned a BFA in 1986. Individual exhibitions of Ritchie’s work include Remanence (2013–14) at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston; The Morning Line (2009) at Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, Spain; Matthew Ritchie: Proposition Player (2003–04) organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, which also traveled to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams; Concentrations 38: Matthew Ritchie (2001) at the Dallas Museum of Art; The Fast Set (2000) at the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art; and The Big story (1999) at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. Among the many group exhibitions that have included Ritchie’s work are In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis (2008) at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco; Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing (2005) at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; and 010101: Art in Technological Times (2001) at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Ritchie’s other public commissions include Games of Chance and Skill (2002) for the Albert and Barrie Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and The Deep Six (2002) at Shiodome City Center in Tokyo.