Portfolio available upon request.
Email: giordanomj [at] gmail.com
Curriculum Vitæ
Biography
1983 Born in New Britain CT, USA
2001-2005 Studied at James Madison University
2006-: Lives and works in Brooklyn NY, USA
Work Experience
Production Artist, GrandArmy, New York NY, 2020-:
Operations Manager, Weinberg Newton Gallery, Chicago IL, 2019-2020
Production Designer, Nowadays, New York NY, 2018-2019
Designer, Studio Matthew Giordano, Brooklyn NY, 2007-:
Art Director, Macy’s Inc., New York NY, 2006-2017
Extracurricular Work Experience
Library Matthew Giordano, Brooklyn NY, 2017-:
Organizer/Co-Curator, Artypes, Brooklyn NY, 2011-2016
Co-Founder, Beginnings—, Brooklyn NY, 2012-2013
Music Journalist, It’s a Trap!, itsatrap.com, 2006-2010
Solo Exhibitions
Years Go By Like Days, with Rachael Yaeger (Brooklyn NY, Rented Space, 2023)
For Western Pole (Chicago IL, Western Pole, 2021)
Sabbatical Paintings (Chicago IL, Dining Room, 2020)
Group Exhibitions
Extra Extra (Brooklyn NY, Watercolour Society at the Orange, 2024)
Zine Party (Brooklyn NY, Young Coffee, 2024)
Currents, curated by Alex Feim (New York NY, Morris Adjmi, 2023)
The Patriot (New York NY, O’Flaherty’s, 2022)
It’s All About Lizards! (Brooklyn NY, Good Work Gallery, 2018)
Common Sense (Brooklyn NY, A/D/O, 2017)
The End (Brooklyn NY, Beginnings—, 2013)
Salon: Still Life (Brooklyn NY, Artypes/WAW, 2012)
The Beginning (Brooklyn NY, Beginnings—, 2012)
Salon: Portrait (Brooklyn NY, Artypes/PACS Gallery, 2012)
Salon: Frame (Brooklyn NY, Artypes, 2011)
BYOA (New York NY, X Initiative, 2010)
Curatorial Work
Three artists: Jamian Juliano-Villani, Jan Kempenaers, Wolfgang Streeck (Brooklyn NY, Beginnings—, 2013)
Co-Curatorial Work
The End (Brooklyn NY, Beginnings—, 2013)
Wood Sculptures by Merjin Hos (Brooklyn NY, Beginnings—, 2012)
Patterns, Marks, Repetitions, Patterns: Jungil Hong, Eric Timothy Carlson, Hiro Kurata (Brooklyn NY, Beginnings—, 2012)
Salon: Still Life (Brooklyn NY, Artypes/WAW, 2012)
Heaps Give Up: Leigh Wells and Leif Low-Beer (Brooklyn NY, Beginnings—, 2012)
The Beginning (Brooklyn NY, Beginnings—, 2012)
Salon: Portrait (Brooklyn NY, Artypes/PACS Gallery, 2012)
Salon: Frame (Brooklyn NY, Artypes, 2011)
Publications
Some Drawings 2019-2022 (Reading Pictures, 2024)
The Rites of Mu (Reading Pictures, 2024)
Mixed Bag, with Rachael Yaeger (Reading Pictures, 2023)
Water watercolors (Reading Pictures, 2023)
Adulthood [II] (Sludge People, 2023)
Avid Reader (Reading Pictures, 2022)
Hoods photographs (Fennel editorial, 2022)
Adulthood [I] (Sludge People, 2022)
Sabbatical Drawings Dreams Reading Pictures (Fennel, 2020)
Too many centuries (Fennel, 2019)
First Book (Fennel, 2018)
Writings
“Possession is Law” (Clog, 2017; Clog: Guns)
“Consistency” (PlayLab Inc. & A/D/O, 2017; Common Sense)
“33CCCC” (Ben Sisto & Jo Livingstone [Eds.], 2016; Web Safe 2k16)
“Guge” (Clog, 2015, Clog: Guggenheim)
“Colossus” (Clog, 2012, Clog: National Mall)
“iMausoleum” (Clog, 2012, Clog: Apple)
Meeting for Sociable Commerce (Lemv, 2009, distributed PDF)
Brick (Lemv, 2009, Brick)
Residencies
Artist-in-Residence, Ace Hotel, New York NY, November 2014
Bibliography
Kaplan, Zachary. “Rhizome Today.” Rhizome (Sept. 12, 2014). http://rhizome.org/editorial/2014/sep/12/rhizome-today/
Kahn, H. Faye. “Comics & the Aesthetic Economy.” Bad at Sports (Jun. 11, 2013). http:// http://badatsports.com/2013/comics-the-aesthetic-economy/