MATTHEW OFFENBACHER

BIOGRAPHY

1995 B.A. Tufts University, Medford, MAPresent Lives and works in Seattle, Washington

TEACHING

2004 Visiting Artist, University of California, San Diego

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 forthcoming, Howard House, Seattle, WA2007 CAPTAIN OF A HUCKLEBERRY PARTY, Howard House, Seattle, WA

THE ROTHKO PROBLEM, Howard House, Seattle, WA2006 GOD, SEX, THE GREAT OUTDOORS, Howard House, Seattle, WA2005 BEAVER PAINTING, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA2004 NEW PAINTINGS, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA2000 SCAPEGOAT, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Berkeley, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 QUINT: THREE DECADES OF CONTEMPORARY ART, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA

2009 BUILD-A-HOUSE/OPEN HOUSE, Howard House, Seattle, WA2009 SECOND PEOPLE, Helm Gallery, Tacoma, WA2008 WEIGHING AND WANTING: SELECTIONS FROM THE COLLECTION, Museum of

Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA2006 SKID ROW, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL2005 INCOGNITO, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

SCULPTURE ON THE FLOOR, WALL & CEILING, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA2004 SINGING MY SONG, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2003 PICTURE BOOK PROJECT, The Farm, San Diego, CA

HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego, CAECHOLOCATION, The Farm, San Diego, CA12TH ANNUAL, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CABREATHING UNDERWATER, The Farm, San Diego, CA7TH ANNUAL ART AUCTION, The Lab, San Francisco, CA

2002 BIG AND BLURRY, Flux Gallery, San Diego, CAHEADLINES, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego, CAADULT SUPERVISION ADVISED, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego, CA6TH ANNUAL ART SALE AND AUCTION, The Lab, San Francisco, CATHE REDSHOW, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego, CA

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS – continued

2001 SALON 2001, ACI/COVA Gallery, San Diego, CA2000 HIGH TECH/HIGH TOUCH, Space 743 and the Kala Institute, San Francisco, CA

20 YEARS, AMERICAN STUDIES, Aidekman Art Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA1999 ANNUAL, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA1998 NEW VISION:INTRODUCTIONS ’98, ProArts, Oakland, CA

POST-POSTCARDS, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA

PROJECTS

2009 THE GIFT SHOP, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA2008 LA ESPECIAL NORTE, a ’zine for artists’ writings (ongoing)

LIGHT SHOW FOR UNESCO, Howard House, Seattle, WA2005 A SPECIAL PROJECT FOR BRAD HALL, The First Unitarian Church, San Diego, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009 Graves, Jen, The Stranger, April 21, 2009, p. 24.2008 Graves, Jen. The Stranger, December 2, 2008, p. 21.2007 Graves, Jen. The Stranger, October 10, 2007, p. 33.2006 Lippens, Nate. “What’s Happening,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sept.29, 2006, p.35.2005 Pincus, Robert l. “Animal House,” San Diego Union Tribune, June 9, Night & Day,

pg.412004 Reed, Victoria. “Matthew Offenbacher at Quint Contemporary Art”, Artweek,

April, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 22-23.2003 Pincus, Robert L. “Down on the Farm,” San Diego Union Tribune, December 18,

Night & Day, pg. 41.2002 Pincus, Robert L. “Beneath the Surface,” San Diego Union Tribune, October 10,

Night & Day, pp. 40-41.

WRITING

2009 “Green Gothic,” La Especial Norte #4, Seattle, WA“Second peoples statement,” (with Gretchen Bennett, Jenny Heishman, and

Heide Hinrichs), Seattle, WA2008 “Black Fu Dogs”, La Especial Norte #2, Seattle, WA.

“The Underground Tour”, La Especial Norte #1, Seattle, WA.

COLLECTIONS

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA