CV
Born, 1969 Adelaide, SA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum, Adelaide (forthcoming)
2016
A Forest of Lightning, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Destroyer of Worlds, GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2012
Space Chickens Help Me Make Apple Pie, Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide
2011
New Vehicles and Exploration, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2010
Axle Mace, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
2008
Terminator, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2007
Storm Machine, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2006
The Good Son, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
2005
The Weet Bix Kid, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Empire, Screening room, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2004
Dark Crystal, The Project Space, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
Empire, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide
2003
Helicopter Drawing, Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
1999
The Nola Rose Candidate, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Still Life, LON Gallery, Melbourne
Floral Arrangements, A Flat, Adelaide
SPACE, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria
Other Suns, Fremantle Art Centre, Western Australia
2018
Directors Cut, FELTspace, Adelaide
2017
The National 2017: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Born Under Punches, Format, Adelaide
Spring 1883, Establishment Hotel, Sydney (GAGPROJECTS)
2016
Dug and Digging With, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2015
Climate Century, Vitalstatistix and Maritime Museum, Port Adelaide
Gratis, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
CACSA Contemporary 2015, SASA Gallery, Adelaide
Spring 1883, Establishment Hotel, Sydney (GAGPROJECTS)
2013
Arte Magra, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Pigeon Auction, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
2012
This is what I do, CAST Gallery, Tasmania; and Metro Arts, Brisbane
Good mourning, FELTspace Gallery, Adelaide
This is what I do, CAST gallery, Tasmania; and Metro Arts, Brisbane
2011
The Rise of Amateurism in the Age of Digital Networks, Arko Art Centre, Korea
Nothing like performance, Artspace, Sydney
2010
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Before and After Science, Art Gallery of SA
2008
Contemporary Australia: Optimism, QAG|GOMA, Brisbane
Matthew Bradley, Michelle Nikou, Sally Smart, GAGPROJECTS, Berlin
World One Minute, Today Art Museum, Beijing
The Flipside, The Substation, Singapore
Underbelly, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
Uneasy: Recent South Australian Art, Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
2007
Bad Brains, A Little Blah Blah, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
As it is - as it can be, Bus Projects, Melbourne
The heavier we get, RAW Space, Brisbane
Late Nights, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Taking the cure, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide
Things will be great, MOP Gallery, Sydney
2006
New Australian Video Art, Museums Quartier, Vienna
Snapshot: Contemporary South Australian Art, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2005
Project for a revolution, Westspace, Melbourne
Risk, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2004
A wing and a prayer, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
Container project, Melbourne ARI Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne
2003
Z, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2002
Die Cast, High Street Projects, Christchurch, New Zealand
2001
Other Worlds, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
1999
Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Selected bibliography
McKay, Peter. “Matthew Bradley”, in The National 2017: New Australian Art. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks and Museum of Contemporary Art, (2017)
Hoskin, Teri. “The year of a thousand suns”. Artlink, vol 36 no.4 (December 2016)
Bolton, Ken. “'THE WHEELS COME OFF, THE WHEELS GET RE-INVENTED”—A space-chicken to Captain Beefheart’, Form Guide, vol 12, no.4, Adelaide: Australian Experimental Art Foundation, (2012)
Darlaston, Kirsty. “Poetry in the dark”. Eyeline no.73, (2011)
Blair, Ulanda. “Seeing in the dark”. Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Before and After Science, Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, (2010)
Chambers, Nicholas. “Monster Bike”, in Contemporary Australia: Optimism. Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, (2008)
Walker, Wendy. 'Uneasy on the eye', The Australian, (3 July 2008)
Morrell, Tim. Uneasy: Recent South Australian Art, Adelaide: Samstag Museum of Art, (June 2008)
Bolton, Ken. ‘Mentor Mentored 3’, exhibition catalogue, Adelaide: Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, (July 2007)
Khan, Jeff. ‘Storm Machine’, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne: Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, (June 2007)
Chapman, Christopher, ‘Snapshot: Contemporary South Australian Art in Adelaide’, Art Monthly, no.194, (October 2006)
Bolton, Ken. ‘Adelaide, Recent Art Recent History’, Broadsheet, vol.34 no.4, (2005)
Woodburn, Jena. ‘Great Escape’, RealTime, no.61, (2004)
Chambers, Nicholas. Z, Eyeline, no.51, (2003)
Radok, Stephanie. ‘Avenge my death’, Adelaide Review, (May 2002)
Chapman, Christopher. ‘Frequent Flyers’, Eyeline, no.46, (2001)