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Matt Mullican

Often working under hypnosis, Matt Mullican creates artworks across variety of mediums—ranging from drawings and graphic works to sculptures and banners—that are guided by an obsession with the universe's cosmological idiosyncrasies. While hypnotized, the artist claims to experience mundane details of existence more fully and deeply, creating a state of hyper-consciousness that allows him to better catalogue human behavior. Charting the universe with invented pictographs and color-coded symbolism, Mullican makes a sincere attempt to observe and categorize all human experiences.

The artist's work has been shown at numerous institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Drawing Center, and the National Galerie in Berlin. His work was also included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

Born 1951
Hometown Santa Monica, CA
Lives and Works New York, NY
Education
BFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, 1974
Permanent Collection

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Whitney Museum, New York, NY

Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

The Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany

The Pompidou Center, Paris, France

Representing Galleries

Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

Tracy Williams Ltd., New York, NY

SHOWS

Murray Guy

New York
Jan 10 2017 - Feb 04 2017

FIONA BANNER, MATTHEW BUCKINGHAM, FRANCIS CAPE, and others

Anton Kern Gallery

New York
Nov 10 2016 - Jan 07 2017

IMPLOSION 20

Peter Freeman Inc.

New York
Nov 03 2016 - Dec 17 2016

Pantagraph

Camden Art Centre

London
Sep 30 2016 - Jan 15 2017

The Sequence of Things

Tracy Williams, Ltd.

New York
Jul 07 2016 - Jul 27 2016

PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS

École des Beaux-Arts

Paris
May 18 2016 - Jul 14 2016

Extranatural - A Project by Mark Dion
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