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Mathew Cerletty
Mathew Cerletty (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 1980) lives and works in New York, USA. He holds a BFA from Boston University, Boston.
Cerletty’s work has been the subject of international exhibitions, most recently Standard, Oslo; Karma, New York; Office Baroque, Brussels and Blum and Poe, Los Angeles. Institutional presentations include Museo Madre, Naples; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, among others.
UPCOMING
Mathew Cerletty’s upcoming projects include
Full Length Mirror at The Power Station, Dallas (2020)
Mathew Cerletty, Installation view of Flatlands, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 14—April 18, 2016, Photo: Ronald Amstutz.
Mathew Cerletty.
Mathew Cerletty (b. 1980) renders uncanny portraits, landscapes, and painstakingly hyperreal paintings of company insignias and mass-produced goods.
In the vein of surrealists like René Magritte, his non-sequitur paintings present the familiar as peculiar. He does so with an awareness that “paintings talk slowly, so humor inevitably gets warped and transformed, often exposing underlying feelings.” Although Cerletty approaches his images with a tongue-in-cheek humor, there is an underlying sincerity in his attention to detail.
Mathew Cerletty, Workforce, 2018. Oil on linen, 60 x 60 in.
Mathew Cerletty, Keeper, 2018. Oil on linen, 56 x 56 in.
Mathew Cerletty,Whiskers, installation view Standard (Olso), April 5–May 11, 2019
Mathew Cerletty, Fruit of the Loom, 2017. Oil on canvas, 137,2 × 137,2 cm
(54 × 54 in)
Mathew Cerletty, Shelf Life, installation view Karma, New York, May 5–June 17, 2018
