Matt Macintosh
(b. 1976), Guelph, Canada. Lives and works, Kamloops, Canada.
Education
2012 Master of Visual Studies, University of Toronto
2009 Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing and Painting), Ontario College of Art and Design
Solo Exhibitions
2026 TBD, (with Emma Stern), UrArtU, Dubai, UAE
2022 SUPERUNISON, Samuele Visentin, London, UK
2017 falsevoid, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, CA
2016 Pitching Tents in Terra Nullius (with Keesic Douglas), Montréal, arts interculturels, Montréal, CA
2015 Type and Token, Maclaren Art Centre, Barrie, CA
2014 Icon Device (with Susan Dobson), Gallery 44, Toronto, CA
2013 Spiritual Machines, Culturehall, New York, US
2013 Into the Void, Toronto Image Works, Toronto, CA
2012 prose; apostrophe, prior., University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, CA
2011 Meaning Made, 1 Spadina, Toronto, CA
2010 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Video, EEL Gallery, Toronto, CA
2010 ?, Bjornsen Kajiwara Gallery (With Davida Kidd), Vancouver, CA
2008 Drawings III, Upper Gallery, Toronto, CA
2008 L-Types, SLC Gallery, Kingston, CA
2007 Patterned Language, Verb Gallery, Kingston, CA
2007 Drawings II, Upper Gallery, Toronto, CA
2007 Creation Myths, Verb Gallery, Kingston, CA
2006 Drawings I, Upper Gallery, Toronto, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
2025 Axis Mundi, 5-50 Gallery, New York, US
2024 Eye of the Collector, London, UK
2024 Lightshow, Toronto, CA
2016 Luminocity, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, CA
2014 Memories of the Future, Gibson House Museum, Toronto, CA
2014 Abstract 1, Gallery 1313, Toronto, CA
2013 Sincerely Yours, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, CA
2012 Object, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto, CA
2011 Spectacle and Impermanence, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA
2009 Found Subjects, EEL Gallery, Toronto, CA
2009 Dreamers and Screamers, Board of Directors, Toronto, CA
2008 Front/Centre, Bjornsen Kajiwara Gallery Booth, Toronto, CA
2007 Deathprod, Atrium, Toronto, CA
2007 Framed, SLC Gallery, Kingston, CA
2006 Massive Response, Eastern Front, Toronto, CA
2006 25, Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston, CA
Awards
2015 John Hartman Award and Bursary
2015 Ontario 400 Project Grant
2014 Ontario Arts Council: Emerging Artist Project Grant
2014 Toronto Arts Council: Project Grant
2013 Simcoe County Project Grant
2012 University of Toronto Fellowship
2012 Launch Pad Exhibition Grant
2011 University of Toronto Fellowship
2010 University of Toronto Fellowship
2009 Francis E Ziegler Scholarship (Highest G.P.A.)
2007 Millennium Excellence Award
2007 Wallack Bursary
2005 St Lawrence Award (Highest G.P.A.)
2005 St Lawrence Award (Top Graduate)
Public Collections
X Museum, Beijing, China
University of Toronto Art Collection, Toronto, CA
Magenta Art Foundation, Toronto, CA
St Lawrence Gallery, Kingston, CA
Select Curatorial Projects
2026 People, Words, Sound, collab. Kamloops Symphony Orchestra, CA
2024 Common Thread, Kamloops Museum and Archives, CA
2022 You Are Here: Mapping the Future of Culture, collab. Thompson Rivers U, CA
2021 Collective Memories: Japanese Canadian Reflections, collab. Craig Willms, Kamloops Japanese–Canadian Ass’n, CA
2020 Recovery Drive: Models for Community Healing, collab. Royal Inland Hospital, CA
2019 Interior Monologue: Benjamin Baltzly and the Geological Survey of BC, KMA, CA
2018 Ted Smith: Ideal Forms, Kamloops Museum and Archives, CA
2017 riverpeoplenationstatepeople, collab. Tania Willard, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, Stk’emlupsemc Te Secwepemc Nation, CA
2017 Morris Lum: ReRecording Chinese Histories, collab. Kamloops Chinese Cultural Ass’n, Kamloops Chinese Freemasons, Kamloops Museum and Archives, CA
2015 Ground Control: Interrogating Kamloops Skateboard Culture, Kamloops Museum and Archives, CA
2015 touch; 400 years of Champlain (told through Mnjikaning story-keepers), collab. Chippewas of Rama First Nation, OMAH, CA
2014 N2N: Widening the Narrows (Michael Belmore, Michael Farnan, Nadia Myre, Travis Shilling, Osvaldo Yero), co-curated with Wanda Nanibush, OMAH, CA
2013 Graphic Language: Networked Images, Georgia Grieve, Orillia, CA
2012 Disarming Beauty, Amanda Clyne and Victorian Portraiture, OMAH, CA
2012 Keesic Douglas: FUR TRADE, OMAH, CA
2011 prose; apostrophe, prior., UTAC, Toronto, CA
2010 Manuscription, 1 Spadina, Toronto, CA
2010 Surveillance and Identity, New College, Toronto, CA
2009 Fixed Stare, EEL Gallery, Toronto, CA