Matthew Connors

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Kennedy 618

Education:

2004 - MFA, Photography, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT; 1998 - BA, English Literature, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Professional Experience:

Exhibitions

2016 - Unsuspending Disbelief, Logan Center Exhibitions, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016 - Paper Movies, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT
2015 - Looking Askance, GallerySKE, New Delhi, India
2015 - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 - Cartographies of Hope: Change Narratives, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
2012 - General Assembly, Jerome Liebling Center, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
2012 - Before They Were All Famous, Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York, NY
2008 - The Printed Picture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2005 - Handmade, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
2004 - New Photography, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Publications

2015 - Fire in Cairo, SPBH Editions
2014 - Jason Fulford & Gregory Halpern ed. The Photographer’s Playbook, Aperture Press
2013 - Jaroslav Anděl, Cartographies of Hope: Change Narratives, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art

Selected Articles & Reviews

Brad Feuerhelm, Cairo’s Crow Black Eye, American Suburb X, May 13, 2016
John Otis, From Occupy Wall Street to the Arab Spring, New York Times Lens Blog, Apr 6, 2016
Hélène Sallon, Un Autre Regard sur la Place Tahrir, Le Magazine du Monde, Jan 19, 2016
Alphabet of the Revolution, frieze, No. 175, Nov-Dec 2015
Sean O’Hagan, The Best Photography Books of 2015, the guardian, Dec 6, 2015
First Photobook, The Photobook Review, aperture 009/Fall 2015
Paul Moakley, Fire in Cairo: Revisiting the Revolution in Egypt, Time Lightbox, Sep 30, 2015
Brian Sholis, Book Review, frieze, No. 174, Oct, 2015
Adam Bell, Book Review: Fire in Cairo, photo-eye, Sep 3, 2015
Lucy Davies, Fire in Cairo, British Journal of Photography, Jun, 2015

Recognitions

2016 - ICP Infinity Award Recipient for Artist’s Book Fire in Cairo, New York
2015 - Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation First Photo Book Shortlist, Paris / New York ; Arles Book Award Shortlist, Arles, France; Kassel FotoBook Festival Dummy Award Shortlist, Kassel, Germany
2012 - William Hicks Faculty Fellowship, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2010 - VCCA Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA; MacDowell Colony Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
2008 - William Hicks Faculty Fellowship, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2004 - Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT

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