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.
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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The Cage, 2024 -
The Young Ballet, 2024
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Where Is Brooklyn?, 2024
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Cave Simulation as luminescent event, 2023
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The Red G Dances Under a Pink Roof, 2023
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Jogue a boneca para cima, 2022
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The catfish immobilized by the gourd look good, sliding, surrounded by peonies, navigating this world, 2022
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Grand Entrance for Bernardo Buontalenti, 2021
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Capriccio à Paris, 2020
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Stealing What's Real New York, 2019
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Two Hands on Earth, 2019
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After Boucher, 2018
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The Illuminated Boudoir, 2018
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Untitled, 2017
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Lady Kiritsubo arrives at the flower feast, 2015
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Blinded by the light
Group exhibition Jul 11 – Aug 30, 2025 Casa da Cultura da ComportaCasa da Cultura da Comporta Rua do Secador 8 7580-648 Comporta Portugal Laís Amaral, Paloma Bosquê, Nina Canell, Rodrigo Cass, João Maria Gusmão, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Marina Perez Simão, Leticia Ramos,...View Exhibition -
Jewel
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Nov 20 – Dec 21, 2024 New YorkI love you, crazy city. New York is filthy, crusty, run-down, covered in layers of thick paint and rat urine, painted over roaches in tenement housing. There is a city...View Exhibition -
I See No Difference Between a Handshake and a Poem
Curated by Fernanda Brenner Oct 14 – Nov 25, 2023 ParisArtists include: Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa , Armando Andrade Tudela , Lucas Arruda , Karim Aïnouz , Adrián Balseca , Tosh Basco , Katinka Bock , Paloma Bosquê , Nina Canell...View Exhibition -
Linhas Tortas
Curated by Diana Campbell Sep 2 – Nov 4, 2023 São Paulo, Barra FundaLinhas Tortas is a multi-venue international group exhibition that celebrates the entanglements of journeys and the power of storytelling, marking a decade of Mendes Wood DM. Inspired by the Brazilian...View Exhibition -
Linhas Tortas
Curated by Diana Campbell Sep 2 – Nov 11, 2023 São Paulo, Casa IramaiaLinhas Tortas is a multi-venue international group exhibition that celebrates the entanglements of journeys and the power of storytelling, marking a decade of Mendes Wood DM. Inspired by the Brazilian...View Exhibition -
Paper Trails
Group Show Jul 29 – Aug 8, 2023 D'Ouwe Kerke, RetranchementOpen every day | 11am to 6pm d'Ouwe Kerke Dorpsstraat 16 4525 AH Retranchement The Netherlands Osama Alrayyan, Laís Amaral, Lucas Arruda, Patricia Ayres, Alvaro Barrington, Paloma Bosquê, Castiel Vitorino...View Exhibition -
All season sanctuary
Group Show Jul 30 – Aug 7, 2022 D'Ouwe Kerke, Retranchementd'Ouwe Kerke Dorpsstraat 16 4525 AH Retranchement The Netherlands Alma Allen, Neïl Beloufa, Paloma Bosquê, Varda Caivano, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Paulo Nazareth, Hamish Pearch, Hariel Revignet and Miranda Fengyuan Zhang. In...View Exhibition -
Manikin
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Feb 12 – Mar 19, 2022 São Paulo, Barra FundaIn Vladimir Nabokov’s Symbols and Signs (1948) - a short story dear to Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - an institutionalized mental patient suffers from “Referential Mania”, a rare malady whereby the afflicted...View Exhibition -
Grand Entrance
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy May 31 – Jul 17, 2021 Villa Era, Vigliano BielleseThe American-born, Paris-based artist Matthew Lutz-Kinoy is occupying the ground floor of Villa Era with a site-specific project titled Grand Entrance . The starting point for the artist’s project is...View Exhibition -
Male Nudes
a salon from 1800 to 2021 Mar 13 – Apr 30, 2021 São Paulo, Barra FundaMendes Wood DM is proud to present the group exhibition Male Nudity: a salon from 1800 to 2021 . Intersecting representations of the male nude, the show proposes to reflect...View Exhibition -
Yellow Opening
Group Show Aug 1 – 22, 2020 D'Ouwe Kerke, Retranchementd'Ouwe Kerke Dorpsstraat 16 4525 AH Retranchement The Netherlands Solange Pessoa, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Sonia Gomes, Paulo Monteiro, Giangiacomo Rossetti, Michael Dean, Lucas Arruda, Antonio Obá and Paulo Nimer Pjota. A...View Exhibition -
EnormousBalls
Group Show Jun 13 – Jul 18, 2020 BrusselsAdriano Costa, Fernando Marques Penteado, Sonia Gomes, Paulo Nazareth, Michael Dean, Celso Renato, Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, Kishio Suga, Solange Pessoa, Paloma Bosquê, Marina Perez Simão, Lucas Arruda, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané,...View Exhibition -
Two Hands on Earth
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Sep 5 – Oct 26, 2019 BrusselsMendes Wood DM presents Two Hands on Earth , an exhibition of new works by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy. Utilizing the gallery’s interior and period features, the show proposes a stage where...View Exhibition -
Hudson Bathers
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Apr 30 – Jun 15, 2019 New YorkMendes Wood DM New York Apr 30 - Jun 15, 2019 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce Hudson Bathers , an exhibition of new work by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy. For...View Exhibition -
Neither., curated by Fernanda Brenner
Group Show Apr 18 – Jun 17, 2017 BrusselsAdriano Costa, Sonia Gomes, Lucas Arruda, Luiz Roque, Patricia Leite, Paloma Bosquê, Mariana Castillo Deball, Nina Canell, Kasper Bosmans, Fernando Marques Penteado, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Michael Dean, Erika Verzutti, Otobong Nkanga,...View Exhibition -
Fire Sale
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Feb 18 – Mar 25, 2017 São Paulo, Barra FundaSOCIAL FANTASY (Mousse Magazine #56) Matthew Lutz-Kinoy interviewed by Tenzing Barshee TB: How’s the weather in São Paulo? MLK: It was really sunny. But now it’s raining every day. TB:...View Exhibition -
Princess Pompom in The Villa of Falling Flowers
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy May 28 – Aug 1, 2015 São Paulo, Barra FundaAt the core of Matthew Lutz-Kinoy’s practice is the performance-based production of fantastic space. Deeply influenced by histories of collaborative and queer practice, his research-based performances have taken shape as...View Exhibition
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Matthew Lutz-Kinoy 2023Hardcover, 224 pagesRead more
Publisher: Les presses du réel
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Painting Backdrop Picture
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, 2022Paperback, 167 pagesRead more
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König
ISBN: 978-3753302270
Dimensions: 28,8 x 21,6 cm -
Keramikos. Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Natsuko Uchino
Nicolas Trembley, 2020Hardcover, 184 pagesRead more
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
ISBN: 978-3960989103
Dimensions: 30 x 20 cm
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My World
Lucas Arruda, Vojtěch Kovařík, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Antonio Obá Aug 29, 2024Read moreSinger Laren Museum
Laren, the Netherlands
18/09/24 — 12/01/25 -
Horizons: Is there anybody out there?
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Sep 28, 2023Read moreAntenna Space
Shanghai, China
16/09 — 25/10 2023 -
Filling Station
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy 15/09 2023 – 03/11 2023The KitchenRead more
New York, USA
15/09 – 03/11 2023
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