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Matt Copson

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Biography

Born in 1992 in Oxford, UK
Lives and works in London, UK and Los Angeles, USA

Education

2010 BFA Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

Solo presentations

2026
TBA, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Venice, IT (upcoming)

2025
Coming of Age. Age of Coming. Of Coming Age, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, CH
Coming of Age. Age of Coming. Of Coming Age., KW Berlin, Berlin, DE

2024
Of Coming Age, Clearing, Los Angeles, USA

2023
Restaurant Satyr, High Art, Arles, FR

2021
Age Of Coming, Clearing, Brussels, BE

2020
Coming Of Age, High Art, Paris, FR

2019
ON SITE: Matt Copson, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
Down Boy, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, USA

2018
Matt Copson, Mönchehaus Museum, Gosler, DE
Blorange, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, FR

2017
Eggy and Seedy (with Alastair Mackinven), Reading International, Reading, UK

2016
Sob Story, High Art, Paris, FR
A Woodland Truce, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK

2015
Reynard’s Fundament, Tramps, London, UK
Reynard Reforms, Vilma Gold, London, UK

Group exhibitions

2025
FW pt.2, High Art, Paris, FR

2024
Flowers of Romance - Act Two, Lodovico Corsini, Brussels, BE
Flowers of Romance - Act One, Lodovico Corsini, Brussels, BE

2023
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
A Mind Made of Silk, Clearing, Brussels, BE
Maiden Voyage, Clearing, New York, USA
Bonna, Dhaka Art Summit, BD

2022
Barbe à Papa, CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, FR
Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK

2021
Emotionarma, PEER, London, UK
London Zeitgeist, curated by Norman Rosenthal, CIRCA, London, UK
Baltic Triennal 14, Vilnus, LT
Reconfigured, Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York, USA

2020
NGV Triennal, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
The Secret Life of Lobsters, Clearing, Knokke-Heist, BE

2019
Breathless – London Art Now, Ca’ Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Venice, IT
Fabula Rasa, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, DE
Bold Tendencies, site specific commission, London, UK
Dracula’s Wedding, Rodeo, London, UK
My Head is A Haunted House, Sadie Coles, London, UK

2018
C.R. McBerny, Zwinglistrasse, Berlin, DE
To Die For, Castiglioni, Milan, IT

2017
As Above So Below, IMMA, Dublin, IE
I’m Nobody!, High Art, Paris, FR

2016
dead among the dead!, Ellis King, Dublin, IE
Back to Front Space, Primary, Nottingham, UK
The Green Ray, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK

2015
The March Project, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE

2014
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014, ICA, London, UK
Escape Routes: Benedict Drew invites… Limbo, Margate, UK


Other

2025
Last Days, Royal Opera House, London, UK

2024
Last Days, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, USA

2023
Obituary, commissioned by the Aspen Art Museum, Smuggler Mine, Aspen, USA

2022
Last Days, Royal Opera House, London, UK


Collections

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, FR
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka, BD
Fiorucci Art Trust, London, UK
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Dangxia Art Space, Beijing, CN
Xiao Hui Wang Art Museum, Suzhou, CN
Luma Foundation, Zurich, CH and Arles, FR