Overview
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy

I work in large-format paintings, ceramics, and, when luck has it, in live performances. At first, I was producing these large-scale paintings as projection screens and backdrops for performances, and through that work, I was able to think through issues of scale and narrative. When I have the possibility, I prefer to work on-site, and all of the materials, clay, canvas, bodies, physical scales, and durations are understood as located on a site. It is the interactions between people, materials, histories, and ideas that I enjoy working with so much.
– Matthew Lutz-Kinoy 

Embracing the spirit of collaboration as a means to expand knowledge and skills, the breadth of techniques and references used across Matthew Lutz-Kinoy’s practice is the result of many collaborative ventures. Where his ceramics are influenced by working with artists in Europe and Brazil, his large-scale paintings often installed like backdrops, tapestries, wall panels, or suspended ceilings assert matters of pleasure, color, intimacy, motion as fundamental. Lutz-Kinoy’s work looks through a history of representation from the Rococo to Orientalism to Abstract Expressionism, challenging what constitutes the inside and the outside of the arts, the social, and the self. 

At the core of Lutz-Kinoy’s practice is performance. Influenced by histories of queer and collaborative practice, as well as his background in theater and choreography, his live work explores the interplay of narratives that are created and constructed between individuals and social spaces. 

 
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (b. 1984, New York, USA) lives and works in Paris.

 

Recent solo shows have taken place at Mendes Wood DM, New York (2024); The Kitchen, New York (2023); Cranford Collection, London (2022); Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2022); Museum Frieder Burda | Salon Berlin, Berlin (2021); Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2019); Mendes Wood DM, New York (2019); Vleeshal, Middelburg (2018); Le Centre d’édition Contemporaine, Geneva (2018); Le Consortium, Dijon (2018); Indipendenza, Rome (2018); MoMA PS1, New York (2016).

His work has been featured in recent group exhibitions at Singer Laren Museum, Laren (2024); Festival of Contemporary Creation, Toulouse (2024); Luma Westbau, Zurich (2023); Centre d’édition Contemporaine, Geneva (2023); Z33, Hasselt (2023); Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (2022); Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba (2022); Tanzhaus Zürich, Zurich (2022); Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris (2021); Geneva Sculpture Biennial, Geneva (2020); Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (2020); Musée régional d’art Contemporain, Sérigan (2019); FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux (2019); Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (2019); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2018); Berliner Festspiele, Berlin (2018). 

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