MATTHEW KLUBER
mkluber@earthlink.net

 
 
 
 
 

 

EDUCATION

1991

University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, M.F.A.

1987

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, B.F.A.

   
 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2006

Kuper Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Visualizing TRANS,” Exhibition for “TRANS: Visual Culture Conference” (web catalog)

 

Lakeview Museum of Art, Peoria, Illinois,” Selections from the Permanent Collection 06”

 

School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, “ Centennial Alumni Exhibition”

 

Faulconer Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell College, Grinnell , Iowa , “Art Faculty Biennial”

2005

McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michaels College, Colchester, Vermont, "Matthew Kluber: Paintings”

 

Sisneros Fine Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, “Gallery Artists: New Work”

2004

Faulconer Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, “Art Faculty Biennial”

 

Online exhibition, Intermedia Department, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, ”YAH,”(http://itsnt166.iowa.uiowa.edu/YAH%2DDP/09032004.html)

2003

Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska, “Mixed Signals,” Curator: Colin Smith (brochure)

 

Eaton-Buchan Gallery, Coe College, Cedar Rapids Iowa, “Matthew Kluber, Firewire Pictures”

2002

Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City, Kansas, “Matthew Kluber, New Paintings; Nate Fors, New Prints”

 

Janalyn Hanson White Gallery, Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, “Matthew Kluber New Paintings”

2001

123 Watts Gallery, New York, New York, “Summer Group Exhibition”

 

Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City, Kansas, “Gallery Artists; New Work”

 

Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa,“Patient Process” Curators: Lesley Wright and Donald Doe (catalogue)

 

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, “By Design IA01” Curator: Chris Gilbert (catalogue)

2000

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, “Midlands Invitational 2000,” Curators: Janet Farber and John Schloder (catalogue)

 

Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa, “Matthew Kluber: Paintings”

1999

Blanden Art Museum, Fort Dodge, Iowa, “Matthew Kluber: Paintings” (brochure)

 

Jason Peng Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, “Matthew Kluber, David Dawson, Priscilla Sage,”(brochure)

 

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, “Iowa Artists 1999,” Curator: Janet Kardon (catalogue)

1998

Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois, “Surface: Dot, Dash & Grid”

 

Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, Texas, “Selected Works”

 

Percival Galleries, Des Moines, Iowa, “Abstract Images”

 

Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, “Graphics Beyond Technique”

 

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, “Iowa Artists 1998,” Curator: Deborah Leveton (catalogue)

 

Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, “College of Design Faculty”

1997

The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, “Seventy-first International Print Exhibition,” Curator: Peter Von Ziegesar

 

Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, “Los Angeles Printmaking Society Fourteenth Annual Exhibition”

 

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, “Iowa Artists 1997”

1996

Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, “College of Design Faculty”

 

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, “ Iowa Artists from the Permanent Collection”

1994

Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, “Accessing a Future,” Curator: Jean Graham

1992-93

Kunstakadamie Osnabruck, Germany; traveled to Scuola Internazionale Di Graphica Venezia, Italy, “Recent Impressions: Iowa Print Group”

 

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa, “Contemporary Drawings and Monoprints” Curator: Jo Ann Conklin

 

Percival Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa, “Matthew Kluber, Paintings and Drawings”

1991

Kiski School, Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, “Matthew Kluber: Paintings and Monotypes”

 

State University of New York, Purchase, New York, “Five Contemporary Printmakers”

 

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, “Iowa Artists 1991”

1990

Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, “Los Angeles Printmaking Society Eleventh Annual Exhibition”

 

Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, “At the Edge II: Contemporary Prints and Drawings”

 

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, “Iowa Artists 1990”

1989

Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, “At the Edge: Contemporary Prints and Drawings”

1987

Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, “BFA Exhibition”

   
 

GRANTS / AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS

2007/08

Harris Fellowship for “Firewire Pictures”

2007/09

National Science Foundation Grant, “Reformulating Media Computation with Functional Programming, Scripting, and Design Principles.” Co-principal investigators, Sam Rebelsky and Janet Davis

   
 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 

The Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Lakeview Museum of Art, Peoria, Illinois
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Blanden Art Museum, Fort Dodge, Iowa
University of Iowa, Art in State Buildings, Iowa City, Iowa

   
 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2004

Doe, Donald, “The Lure and Dread of the Local,” catalog essay, “Roots of Renewal,” Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa

2003

Smith, Colin, “Mixed Signals,” Brochure, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska

2002

Cain, Marcus, “Gravy Train,” Review Magazine, Kansas City, Missouri, (December) Vol. 4, No.2, pg. 43

2001

Doe, Donald, “Trusting Intuition,”(Catalog), “Patient Process,” Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa

 

Gilbert, Chris, “Art for All: An Argument for Design,”(Catalog) “By Design IA01,” Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa

 

Heath, Ellen, ”Location, Location, Location,” Des Moines Sunday Register (February 11)

 

Kenyon, John, “Iowa Style,” The Sunday Cedar Rapids Gazette, (August19)

 

Mansfield, Laurie, “Art, Design Fuse in ‘IA01,’” Des Moines Sunday Register (August 19), p. 3E

 

Wright, Leslie, “Matthew Kluber,”(Catalog), “Patient Process,” Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa

2000

Farber, Janet, Essay, (Catalog), “Midlands Invitational 2000,” Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

 

Hay, Cris,“Paper World,” Omaha Weekly, May 11,Vol. 1/Issue 10, p.3

 

Kluber, Matthew, Juror’s Statement, (Catalog) “Personal Sightings III,” Blanden Art Museum, Fort Dodge, Iowa

 

Macmillan, Kyle, “Quality Pervades in Joslyn’s ‘Midlands Invitational,’” Omaha Sunday World-Herald (May 21), p.13

1998

Bunke, Joan, “Abstract Images,” Des Moines Sunday Register, (September 20), p. 4Q

 

Metrick, Lenore, “Matters of Conviction,” Des Moines Sunday Register (May 24, 1998), p. 3Q

 

Sachs, Sid, “Trio A,” (Brochure) Jason Peng Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia

 

Skove, Margaret, “Matthew Kluber: Paintings,” (Brochure) Blanden Memorial Museum of Art, Fort Dodge, Iowa

1997

Williams, Brian, “Texas National,” The Daily Sentinel, Nagadoches, Texas (April 12), p. 2A

 

Von Ziegesar, Peter, Curator’s Statement, (Catalog), “The 71st International Competition,” The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1996

Nusbaum, Elliot, At ISU, Dynamic Mix of Ideas, Work,” Des Moines Sunday Register (January 21), p. 5C

1992

Christman, Rick, Falling in Love at the End of the World, Cover illustration, New Rivers Press, 1992

1991

Nusbaum, Eliot, “Art Center Buys Work,” Des Moines Sunday Register (January 13), pg. 8F

1986

Swearer, Jan, “Regional Reviews: ‘Rhode Island Print and Drawing Show,’” Art New England, May, Vol. 7, No. 5, p. 20