Matthew Kenyon (born 1977) is an American

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artist and director of the art practice, S.W.A.M.P. (Studies of Work Atmosphere and Mass Production). Kenyon focuses on critical themes addressing global corporate operations, mass media, military-industrial complexes, and the liminal area between reality and artificial life.

Biography

Matthew Kenyon received his BFA from Southeastern Louisiana State University in 1999 and his MFA from

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in 2002. He is currently the director of the graduate program at the

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department of art. He was previously associate professor of art at the University of Michigan's Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and associate professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). In 1999, Kenyon founded S.W.A.M.P. with fellow artist Douglas Easterly. The pair operated S.W.A.M.P. as a collaborative partnership until 2012, when Kenyon assumed full creative direction of the practice. Their work, ''The Notepad'' (2007) is in the permanent collection at the

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(MoMA). In 2015, Kenyon was awarded fellowships at

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and the Macdowell colony.

Select exhibitions

* 2015: ''GLOBALE: Infosphere,'' ZKM , Museum of Contemporary Art Karlsruhe, Germany * 2015: ''

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,'' Vancouver, Canada * 2015: ''Illusion'', Science Gallery, Petrosains Science Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia * 2014: ''State of Emergency,'' Van Every Gallery, Belk Visual Arts Center at

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, North Carolina * 2013: ''(In)Habitation'', Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MoCAD). Detroit, Michigan * 2012: ''Flash Crash'',

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, Washington D.C. * 2012: ''In Search of the Miraculous'', SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, Los Angeles. * 2011: ''Talk to Me'', The Museum of Modern Art, (MoMA). New York City. * 2010: ''FILE Prix 2010'', Centro Cultural FIESP, São Paulo, Brazil * 2009: ''End of Oil'',

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, A project of SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics), New York City * 2006: ''FILE 2006 International Symposium of Electronic Language'', São Paulo, Brazil

References

External links

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