MATTHEW HELLER
1974 Born / Boston, MA
raised between Boston and Los Angeles
Heller currently lives and works in Venice, CA
EDUCATION
1996 BA in the honors program, University of California Santa Barbara
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Garden Party / D2 Art / Inglewood, CA
2016 Turns of Phrase / Heather Gaudio Fine Art / New Canaan, CT
Grand Theft Autocorrect / San Juan Space / Venice, CA
2014 Emotional Icons / Roseark / Los Angeles, CA
2010 You You You / D2 Art / Los Angeles, CA
2009 The Great / Galerie Anais / Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2008 Everything is a Love Story / DCA Fine Art / Los Angeles, CA
2007 One Million Colors / DCA Fine Art / Los Angeles, CA
2006 You Are Everything / Glu Gallery / Los Angeles, CA
2005 Coming And Going / The Jaxon House / Venice, CA
Very New Work / Lost and Found Gallery / Los Angeles, CA
2004 Ceremony / Lost and Found Gallery / Los Angeles, CA
2003 Lovesick / Soapbox Gallery / Venice, CA
2001 New Paintings / Monique Goldstrom Gallery / New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS and FAIR BOOTHS
2020 Summer Selection / Heather Gaudio Fine Art / New Canaan, CT
2019 Wynwood Art Fair / Heather Gaudio Fine Art / Miami, FL
2018 Art Market SF International Art Fair / Heather Gaudio Fine Art / San Francisco, CA
18-3838 / Heather Gaudio Fine Art / New Canaan, CT
2017 Spring Journey / Roseark / Los Angeles, CA
2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass / Walt Disney Studios at Roseark / Los Angeles, CA
LA to London Street Week / The Desmond / Los Angeles, CA
LA 16 / Sur Le Mur / Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2012 Great Promise / The Watermill Center / New York, NY
Visual Chronicles / Salt Fine Art / Laguna Beach, CA
2010 Marine Salon #7 / Marine Art Salon / Santa Monica, CA
On Paper / George Billis Gallery / Los Angeles, CA
2008 The Other Side/ Roseark / Hollywood, CA
2006 The December Show with Sister Corita / Lost and Found Gallery / Los Angeles, CA
SFMOMA’s 16th Biennial Auction / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / SF, CA
New Work / Corey Helford Gallery / Culver City, CA
21st Century LA / The Jaxon House / Venice, CA
2005 Tiger Tiger Rain Rain / The Jaxon House / Venice, CA
Small Wonders/ Pharmaka Gallery/ Los Angeles, CA
2004 The December Show / Lost and Found Gallery / Los Angeles, CA
Festival Neruda (with Roberto Matta) / Project Artaud / San Francisco, CA
2003 Intimate Beginnings / D2 Art / Los Angeles, CA
2002 Gallery Artists / Circle Elephant Art Gallery / Los Angeles, CA
Tribeca Works on Paper / DFN Gallery / New York, NY
Beauty Will Save the World / Monique Goldstrom Gallery / New York, NY
2001 Green Light / Armstrong Schoenheit Gallery / Los Angeles, CA
Heller Vs Schwary: with Brian Schwary and Mark Kostabi / DFN Gallery / NY, NY
Figurative Explorations / Monique Goldstrom Gallery / New York, NY
2000 Gallery Artists / Gallery Blu / Palm Desert, CA
1999 Coagula Presents / Patricia Correia Gallery at Bergamot Station / Santa Monica, CA
1997 Recent Work: Tom Fruin and Matthew Heller / Gallery 1434 / Santa Barbara, CA
I describe my work as minimal but with heart, using traditional materials and ideas in unexpected ways aiming to provide viewers an opportunity to have an emotional experience that fosters self-reflection and introspection as well as offering the viewer a new way to experience the familiar.
-Matthew Heller
January, 2020