Matt Gonzalez’s collages are meditations on the nature of equilibrium, specifically between our sensuous, emotive experience of the world and our rational interpretation of it. Geometric lines and figures form compositions that are so complex and self-contained that they look like living systems. Featuring striking tonal palettes, they are assembled using discarded pieces of paper and packaging he finds on walks through San Francisco.

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EDUCATION
1990 JD Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, CA
1987 BA Columbia University, New York City, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Labyrinths, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2021 Beauty Will Be Convulsive, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Derivations in Color, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Dérive: Situationist Encounter in San Francisco, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Things I Didn’t Know I Loved, Park Life, San Francisco, CA
2009 Mixed Media Collage, Lola, Berkeley, CA
For Every Passer-by, The Breakfast Group, Berkeley, CA
2008 I Put It Back In Order For You, In vitro Gallery, Chicago, IL
Pull Here to Get Everything You Want, Soap Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Waxwing & Kite, a.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA (two-person show with Felix Macnee)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Gather, Seed Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Paperworks: 15 Years of Acquisitions, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
  Pyramid Scheme, Bass & Reiner, San Francisco
  30 Year Anniversary Exhibition, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
2022 Neruda 10x10, Arion Press Gallery, San Francisco
  Dancing with Charlie: Bay Area Art from the Campbell Collection, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
2021 Art of California: Greater than the Sum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2020 From the Vault, Swim Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Return, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Metronome City, The Midway, San Francisco, CA
Stimulus, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Stay Inspired, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Dialogues with Emillio, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Lightning Strikes II: 22 poets. 22 artists., Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
hot love-cold facts, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Arte Extraordinario: Recent Acquisitions, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
@Timbuk2, FAULTline 2.0, San Francisco, CA
Sum of the Parts, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Reverberations: A Visual Conversation, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
The House Plant Show, Swim Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Geeks, Freaks & Strange Art, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Artist as Subject: 20th Anniversary Celebration, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Post 11/9 The New Now [Now], Connect Gallery, Chicago, IL
North Beach and Beyond, Gallery Rocking Horse, San Francisco, CA
Mini’s, Museum of Friends, Walsenberg, CO (3-person show with Maria Cocciarelli & Harry Tuschidana)
2014 Fertile Ground: Art & Community in California, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
All Of Us Together, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Graphic Thoughts, CES Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Salt The Skies, Fecal Face Dot Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Regarding Configurations, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA (two-person show with Dennis Parlante)
The Hogarth Project, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
Lux and Textura: Explorations Beyond the Surface, a.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
3 Year Anniversary Salon Show, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fictions: The Worlds Writers & Artists Create, a.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 December Group Show, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Winter Group Show, Fecal Face Dot Gallery, San Francisco, CA
UC Berkeley, Art For Change, The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
2011 Codices Urbanos, B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (two-person show with Gustavo Ramos Rivera)
Scissors vs. Brush, a.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA (two-person show with Tom Schultz)
The Collage Show, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
In The Moment, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Building Context, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Paper, Scissors, Glue / Bay Area Collage, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
The Fine Art of Baseball, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Out of the Flat Files, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Five From Folsom Street, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
New Works, Suite Five Salon, San Francisco, CA (two-person show with Ben Irvine)
2009 The Novemberists, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Skate This Art, Market Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Defiant Optimism, Gallery Extraña, Berkeley, CA
Crossing the Delaware, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA
Before My Rushing Heart, Art House, McAllen, TX
2007 New Works, The Hive Art Salon, San Francisco, CA
Flood, Hayes Valley Art Market, San Francisco, CA
Eight at the Gate, Live Worms, San Francisco, CA
Walking in the Street, Lincart Gallery, San Francisco, CA (two-person show with Omar Chacon)
2006 Waxwing & Kite, a.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA (two-person show with Felix Macnee)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2023 Vochatzer, John, “Studio Visit & Interview with Matt Gonzalez,” Moth Belly Gallery, April 3, 2023
2021 Smith, Tamsin, “Preview: Matt Gonzalez’s Magic-Circumstantial Collages,” Juxtapoz, June 25
2020 Hamlin, Jesse, “Matt Gonzalez: A Man of Piece(s)”, Nob Hill Gazette, September 15, 2020
2019 Couzens, Julia, “Poetry & Painting@ Dolby Chadwick”, Squarecylinder, December 29, 2019
2018 Van Proyen, Mark, “Matt Gonzalez @ Dolby Chadwick”, Squarecylinder, October 15, 2018
Vitello, Gwynned, “An Interview with Artist and Activist Matt Gonzalez”, Juxtapoz, October 3,2018
2017 Phillips, Joseph, “Connect Gallery to host art exhibit on post-Trump Election”, Hyde Park Herald, November 6, 2017
2016 Davis, Genie, “CES Gallery: San Francisco Unbound”, Art and Cake, October 3, 2016.
Seed, John, “‘Lightning Strikes: 18 Poets. 18 Artists.’ at Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco,: Huffington Post, January 21, 2016
2015 Couzens, Julia, “Lightning Strikes @ Dolby Chadwick”, Square Cylinder, December 29, 2015
Kordic, Angie, “Lightning Strikes Group Exhibition at Dolby Chadwick Gallery : 18 poets. 18 artists. Take San Francisco”, Wide
Walls, November 28, 2015
Nataraj, Nirmala, “Matt Gonzalez’s ‘Dérive: Situationist Encounter in San Francisco'”, San Francisco Chronicle, March 4, 2015
2014 Dalkey, Victoria, “2 Bay Area museums team up to celebrate California’s artistry”, Sacramento Bee, October 30, 2014
B.K., Ana, ““Graphic Thoughts” at CES Contemporary, Los Angeles”, Widewalls, August 8, 2014
2013 Noonan, Erik, “A Defiant Beauty: Matt Gonzalez’ Recent Work”, A Guy Should Know, September 28, 2013
Held Jr., John, “Matt Gonzalez’s “Things I Didn’t Know I Loved” at Park Life, San Francisco”, San Francisco Art Quarterly, July 16, 2013
Torres, Anthony, “Matt Gonzalez @ Park Life Gallery”, Cultural Interventions, July 16, 2013
Bamberger, Alan, “Park Life: Matt Gonzalez -- Things I Didn’t Know I Loved”, Art Business, July 28, 2013
Arnold, Kathryn, “Matt Gonzalez at Meridian Gallery, San Francisco”, NY ARTS Magazine, March 15, 2013
2011 Baker, Kenneth, “Collage, culture and mulching at Guerrero Gallery”, San Francisco Chronicle, August 27, 2011
Chun, Kimberley, “‘Scissors vs. Brush’: Matt Gonzalez, Tom Schultz”, San Francisco Chronicle, April 28, 2011
2010 Occam, Paul, “Matt Gonzalez at Triple Base Gallery”, Mission Loc@l, December 26, 2010
2008 Torres, Anthony, “Matt Gonzalez @ In vitro Gallery”, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, October 2008
Nicholaou, Libby, “Soap Gallery: Matt Gonzalez -- Pull Here To Get Everything You Want”, Libby’s Niche: Reviews, April 5, 2008
Leaverton, Michael, “Pull My (Trigger) Finger”, San Francisco Weekly, April 2, 2008
Fernández Valverde, Hilda, “Monta activista de EU exposición en Coahuila”, El Universal, Mexico City, October 7, 2008
Lopez Herrera, Sigifredo, “Colectiva de collages de San Francisco, California”, El Diario de Coahuila, Mexico, October 9, 2008
Moyer, Nancy, “Before My Rushing Heart”, The McAllen Monitor, March 7, 2008
2007 Jancar, Ava, “Review: Let Her Make a Speech for Me”, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 21, 2007
Van Proyen, Mark, “Matt Gonzalez at LINCART”, ART LTD / WEST COAST ART + DESIGN, July 2007
Swanhuyser, Hiya, “Welcome, Matt”, San Francisco Weekly, April 16, 2007

LECTURES & PANELS

2024 “Foreword,” All the Little Things That Happened in Our Heads by John Vochatzer, 2024

“On the Threshold of Liminal Space: A Look Back at Megan Setter’s Efflorescence,” Juxtapoz

Magazine, June 21, 2024

“Keeping Art Alive: A Conversation with Local Artists and Activists” Manny’s San Francisco, 2024
2023 “Holiday Celebration and Q&A with Martin Machado and Matt Gonzalez, in conjunction with Machado’s exhibition

“Three Sheets to the Wind, Out on a Limb,” at Eleanor Harwood Gallery, December 19, 2023.

“Review: “Single Signal” with Peter Kirkeby @ Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco (written with

Kelly Jean Egan), Juxtapoz Magazine, October 5, 2023.

“Review: The Last Days Before Bright Future” of Alex Kanevsky,” Juxtapoz Magazine, 2023.

“Review: Rachel Dwan’s “Rhymes With” @ Upper Market Gallery” (written with Kelly Jean

Egan), Juxtapoz Magazine, September 21, 2023.

“Everything is Boldness with Emilio Villalba at Dolby Chadwick Gallery,” Juxtapoz Magazine, June

21, 2023.

“Recollections” in Breaking the Rules: Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown by Scott A.

Shields (London: Scala Arts Publishers Inc., 2023).

“Review: Terry Powers Gives a Proof of Life,” Juxtapoz Magazine, April 18, 2023.

“Object Lessons: A Review of Tamsin Spencer Smith @ Upper Market Gallery, San

Francisco,” Juxtapoz Magazine, March 22, 2023.

RELOVE, a panel discussion moderated by Josefin Lundahl with Ana Teresa Fernandez, Deborah

Munk, and Matt Gonzalez on working with found objects, chance, and how “reloving’ can innovate

social change, at Creativity Explored in San Francisco, March 16, 2023.

“Review: The Comfortable Darkness of Felix Macnee,” Juxtapoz Magazine, March 8, 2023.

“Review: Lyfe In a Strange Land,” Juxtapoz Magazine, February 28, 2023.”Review: Lyfe In a

Strange Land, Juxtapoz Magazine, February 28, 2023.
2022 “Donald Bradford’s Lazarus Paintings,” Juxtapoz Magazine, November 20, 2022

“Bill Scott and the Making of Lyrical Paintings” Hollis Taggart, 2022.

“Afterword.” Andrew Schoultz, Decade: 2011-2021, Paragon Books, 2022

“Presence of the Past: David Ligare’s Purposeful Representation,” Juxtapoz Magazine, 2022
2021 “Hollis Heichemer: The Beauty of a Context, Revealed” Juxtapoz Magazine, October 6, 2021

“Never Lost, Reflection on the Art of Found Photography,” The Profound M, 2021

“Ann Gale: Painter of Accrued Intimacy,” Juxtapoz Magazine, April 14, 2021

“Guy Diehl, Forging an Art Life,” February 22, 2021

“Interior Space in Motion: A Review of Laina Terpestra’s Work,” Juxtapoz Magazine, January 11
2020 SFAI (San Francisco Art Institute) LIVE Elections 2020, Special Coverage and Town Hall features Matt Gonzalez
and multi-media artist/SFAI Professor Tony Labat in live virtual conversation with SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin,
SF Republican Party Chair John Dennis, and San Francisco Supervisors Hillary Ronen & Gordon Mar, November 3, 2020
2019 Artist Talk by Andrea Borsuk, Victoria May, Katherine Sherwood, Vanessa Woods, & Matt Gonzalez in conjunction with
their show “hot love — cold facts”, curated by Jack Fischer, at the Berkeley Art Center. Talk moderated by Daniel Nevers,
Executive Director of the BAC. Sunday September 15, 2019
In conversation: Harley Lafarrah Eaves & Matt Gonzalez, in conjunction with Eaves’ show I Also Believe in Ghosts, Park Life Gallery,
San Francisco, February 2, 2019
2017 Artists Survival Techniques and The Law, a performative talk with real life advice from Ragi Dindial & Matt Gonzalez, in
conjunction with the exhibition, “Illegal”, curated by Kal Spelletich, Darryl Smith, and Alicia McCarthy, Luggage Store Gallery,
San Francisco, November 10 — December 16, 2017
Keeping it Real in the Artist Studio, a community roundtable to discuss the future of the de Young Museum’s artist-in-
residency program, in conjunction with Lena Wolff’s residency, “The Song is Love”, with panelists Matt Gonzalez, Kim Anno, and
Lena Wolff. Moderated by Kevin Seaman. In the Artist Studio / Kimball Education Gallery at the de Young Museum, San
Francisco, Saturday, November 25th, 2017 3-5pm
In conversation: Terry St. John & Matt Gonzalez in conjunction with St. John’s show “Figures, Landscapes & Still Lifes: Six Decades
of Painting” at Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco. June 3, 2017
The Evolution of An Art Collector, panel discussion with Ray Beldner, Emilie van der Hoorn, Matt Gonzalez, & Beth
Waldman (moderator). Co-hosted by ArtSpan and the Pacific Felt Factory, April 18, 2017
“Dread Scott: Past, Present & Future” panel discussion interrogating the intersections of art, aesthetics and politics with New
York based-artist Dread Scott, Michele Pred, Patrick Martinez, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Matt Gonzalez, & Nicole Archer (moderator)
in conjunction with Scott’s solo exhibition opening at Guerrero Gallery, February 11, 2017
2016 “Art in Public Places: A Discussion,” Jewish Contemporary Museum, Artist Brian Goggin, Former San Francisco Supervisor
Matt Gonzalez, FOR-SITE Executive Director Chery Haines, and SF Arts Commission Program Director Susan Pontius discuss
their favorite public works of art and the complexities of placing art in public, December 15, 2016
“Guest lecture: Art and Politics by Matt Gonzalez,” De Young Museum Docent Council, Koret Auditorium, October 14, 2016
“Discussion Panel: Mace of Disruption — A Perspective on American Safety”, at The Growlery, San Francisco.
A discussion around the provocative public sculpture installation consisting of 44 spiked bats that occurred on Thanksgiving 2015
in San Francisco. Matt Gonzalez, John Zarobell, Dan Lawson, & Matthew Bajda, in conversation, moderated by Denah Johnston,
June 1, 2016
2015 In conversation: Cate White & Matt Gonzalez in conjunction with White’s show “Both on Earth” at The Luggage Store Gallery,
San Francisco (Headlands Center for the Arts Tournesol Award Exhibition 2015), October 28, 2015
Talk Art: Andrew Schoultz in conversation with Matt Gonzalez, at The Battery, San Francisco, June 24, 2015
Artist Clare Rojas & SFMOMA curator Janet Bishop in conversation at the Luggage Store Gallery’s temporary Market Street location
in conjunction with rooftop viewing of Rojas’s mural “Promise”
2014 Introductory remarks by San Francisco’s Director of Cultural Affairs Tom DeCaigny, Frances Phillips from the Creative Work
Fund, Luggage Store board member Matt Gonzalez, and Luggage Store Co-founders Laurie Lazer and Darryl Smith, March 25, 2015
Artist Talk by Ann Weber & Matt Gonzalez in conjunction with their shows at Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, March 7, 2015
Artist Talk by Gideon Chase, Evan Holm, & Matt Gonzalez in conjunction with their show Greatest Hits: Volume I at Incline Gallery,
San Francisco, CA. May 16, 2014
2013 In conversation: John Halle, music composer & pianist and Matt Gonzalez, collage artist, on intersections, asymmetries and
inevitable collisions resulting from attempts to combine the arts and politics, Berkeley Arts Festival, December 29, 2013
Talking Art: Snipping, Clipping, Pasting. Conversation with artists who use a variety of collage techniques in
photomontage, printmaking, three-dimensional forms, and video art. Artist Panel: Val Britton, Matt Gonzalez, Robynn Smith,
and Vanessa Wood. San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, April 24, 2013
Panel Discussion coinciding with Travis Somerville’s solo exhibition A Great Cloud of Witnesses, moderated by Diana
Daniels, Associate Curator, Contemporary Art at the Crocker Art Museum. Panelists include Travis Somerville, Matt Gonzalez,
Chris Johnson, and Jeff Dauber. Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, March 2, 2013
Dennis Parlante & Matt Gonzalez in Conversation in conjunction with their opening “Regarding Configurations”. Discussing
the practice, theory, concept, history, and materials of collage in a casual conversation. Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, January
17, 2013
Andrew Schoultz interviewed by Matt Gonzalez in conjunction with Schoultz’s opening “Fall Out” at Mark Moore Gallery, Los
Angeles, January 12, 2013
2012 Lecture by Matt Gonzalez coinciding with the opening of “Art For Change”, Graduate Theological Union Library, curated by
Nicholas Ukrainiec and made possible by the Jane Dillenberger Fine Arts Endowment Fund. The exhibition features prints,
paintings, posters, and mixed media created to inspire or promote social, political, and economic change. Selections from the
social justice collections of the GTU Archives are shown together with works by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Shephard Fairey, Matt
Gonzalez, Joel Isaacson, Richard Kamler, Corita Kent, Earl Newman, Rigo, Lizabeth Eva Rossof, Favianna Rodriguez and others.
The Graduate Theological Union, UC Berkeley, March 15, 2012
2011 “Kurt Schwitters: Make Art with Matt Gonzalez” in conjunction with the exhibition “Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage”. Event
includes an informal talk by Gonzalez in the exhibition galleries about some of his favorite Schwitters pieces. UC Berkeley
Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 14, 2011
A panel on “Collecting Art, Curating Your Collection” with Whitney Chadwick PhD, Charles Campbell, Matt Gonzalez and Jeremy
Stone at the West Coast Art Collectors Conference at the San Francisco Fine Art Fair, Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, May
20, 2011
2009 “Rendering the Male Nude: Tradition or Provocation?” in conjunction with the exhibit “Theophilus Brown: Five Decades of
Rendering the Male Nude” at the McAllen Art House. Theophilus Brown in conversation with Dr. Esteban Ortega Brown and
Anthony Torres. Introductory remarks by Matt Gonzalez and María Elena Macías, Assistant Professor of Art, UTPA. Fine
Arts Auditorium, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Texas, April 30, 2009
2008 Catharine Clark & Matt Gonzalez interview, Frank Prattle with Zefrey Throwell radio. Interview at the SF Arts Commission
Gallery March 1, 2008 (aired April 4, 2008)
2007 Institute of Contemporary Art, London. “Figures of Speech USA”, a program inviting presentations on an object having
personal significance by artist and gallerist Aaron Rose, media-art pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson, SF Chronicle art critic
Kenneth Baker, NY magazine mogul Jack Rabid, surf entrepreneur Keir J Beadling and artist/politician Matt Gonzalez.
October 2007
Amy Franceschini & Matt Gonzalez in conversation in conjunction with Franceschini’s SECA exhibition. San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, Phyllis Wattis Theater, February 15, 2007
2004 “Art & Politics”, undergraduate course taught by guest lecturer Matt Gonzalez at the San Francisco Art Institute, 2004

COLLECTIONS
Achenbach, San Francisco, CA
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., San Francisco, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Nordstrom, Inc., Seattle, WA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA