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MATTHEW ERNST
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The brief, obligatory biography...

   

From '92 - 2009  I had numerous solo and group shows in galleries, fairs, biennales and museums around the country and abroad. My work was featured and reviewed in major publications (see Selected Press page) and was acquired by various private  and public collections.

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In 2010, my screenplay Backwoods was optioned by Process Media. More than a year in development and with the talents of Julianne Moore, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kristin Stewart attached,  the project collapsed just weeks before production.  It was optioned by again by Maddelena Productions 2013. I continue to work to get the project made.

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From 2010 - 2019 I studied television writing with Alan Kingsberg and developed a number of projects including two TV pilots, The Hit and Good Vibrations with Critical Content and Axelrod/Ett respectively. 

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In addition, I am a lifelong drummer and a founding member of the groups The Tracys and Win Win  and have released 5 full length records. I joined Cash Registers in 2019. 

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In 2020 I re opened my studio at 234 6th Street, Brooklyn.

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CURRICULUM VITAE

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FINE ARTS

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions/Public Collections

 

  • The Future of an Illusion, 511 Gallery, New York, NY, 2007

  • The Icarus Pictures, 511 Gallery, New York, NY, 2005     

  • Little Monsters, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY, 2002               

  • Photographs, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY, 2001

  • Numina, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY, 2000

  • Paintings and Drawings, Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY, 1999

  • Elk Lake Series, Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY, 1998

  • Paintings, Gallery BAI, New York, NY, 1996

  • The Housatonic Museum of Art, Permanent Collection

  • The Adirondack Museum, Permanent Installation                   

                                                                           

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

  • For The Record- Searching For Objectivity In Global Conflict, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, MA, 2011

  • Fresh Kill - 511 Gallery, New York, 2008

  • Less is More - 511 Gallery, New York, 2007

  • All Grown Up: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Child, Phillips Du Pury and Company, curated by Aileen Agopian, 2007

  • The Lake and the Boat - 511 Gallery North, Lake Placid, NY 2007

  • Drawing Now - 511 Gallery, New York, 2006

  • Mining the Surface - The Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT, 2006

  • Icons for a New Century - The Housatonic Museum of Art, CT, 2006

  • Biennale Internazionale Dell Arte Contemporanea, Firenze Dec, 2005

  • Brush, Pencil, Chisel, Knife - 511 Gallery, NYC, 2004

  • Suspended Gravity - TAI Gallery, New York, NY, 2002

  • Art Santa Fe, George Billis Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2001

  • Art Miami, George Billis Gallery, Miami, 2001        

  • First Vienna Astrotel Art Fair, George Billis Gallery, Vienna, 2000

  • Honest Lie - 169 Hudson, curated by Fairfax Dorn, New York, NY, 1999   

  • Equivalents=Clouds - Lake Placid Center for the Arts, 1998

  • Paintings -  Gallery BAI, Barcelona, 1995

 

Bibliography

  • The Art of Matt Ernst, Leah Satlin, Format Magazine, Dec. 2007

  • The Poetry of War, James Winn, Cambridge University Press, 2008 (jacket design)

  • Megan Heuer, Reviews: New York, ARTnews, May, 2007

  • Let There be Lightness, Jon Potter, Brattleboro Reformer, April 13th, 2006

  • Matt Ernst, Rob Roy Icons For A New Century, Lisa Paul Streitfeld, Art

  • New England, April/May, 2006 issue

  • Reading Between the Lines and the Weapons, Benjamin Genocchio,

  • The New York Times Sunday Dec 18th, 2005

  • Collateral Damage, Luanne Roy, Fairfield County Weekly, Dec. 1 2005

  • Voice Choices –Baker, The Village Voice, June 20th, 2005

  • Art Matters, summer 2005                

  • On View an Up for Sale in the Visual Arts, Francis Lewis, Where? New York Magazine, Art and Antiques, September 2002

  • Arts and Leisure, The New York Times,  Sept 22, 2002

  • Arts and Leisure, The New York Times, Sept 15, 2002

  • Arts and Leisure, The New York Times, Sept 7, 2002                    

  • Matt Ernst, Joyce B. Korotkin, NY Arts, May, 2001

  • The Short List, The New Yorker Magazine, February 2002

  • Ernst Shows at Ring Gallery, Robin Claudell, Press Republican, July 1998

  • Sport! Der Moderne, Gentleman in Top Form, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Manner Vogue (Germany), May 1997

  • Three’, Matthew Ernst, El Mundo (Barcelona, Spain.) December 9, 1995   

 

 

SCREENWRITING

 

The Hit, TV Pilot, in development, Relativity Television

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Good Vibrations, TV Pilot, in development, Axelrod/Ett

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Gone, Film – optioned by Maddalena Productions, 2013                

Backwoods, Film  - optioned by Process Media, 2010

 

MUSIC/RECORDINGS

 

Bigfoot and Me – Win/Win (drums), 2018

 

Humdinger, The Tracys (drums/ vocals), 2017

 

Abilene, The Tracys (drums/ vocals), 2016

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The Tracys, The Tracys (drums/ guitar/ vocals), 2014

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America, Africa, The Bohemian Angels (percussion), 1989

 

EDUCATION

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Diploma, 1991

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Berklee College of Music, Boston, 1986 - 1988  

   

The Drummers Collective, New York, NY, 1986

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