Matthew C. Wilson

About

Matthew C. Wilson is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher. In his films, installations, and sculptures viewers inhabit parallel presents and speculative futures, encountering agents and apparatuses of technological and ecological transformation.

Education

2016–18Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
2013–14Whitney Independent Study Program, New York
2011–13MFA, Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York
2010Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
2000–06BA, Art & Design / BA, English, North Carolina State University

Residencies & Fellowships

2024Enter the Hyper-Scientific, EPFL, Lausanne
NIAS–KNAW, Amsterdam
2023Future Heritage, IAS & Allard Pierson, Amsterdam
InResidence, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto
2022Planetary Scholars & Artists, JLU Giessen
2021–22Walk & Talk, São Miguel, Azores
2020airWG, atelierWG, Amsterdam
2019Aalto University, Helsinki
2018Terra Summer Residency, Giverny
Tabakalera, Donostia–San Sebastián
2012Salzburg Summer Academy
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como

Awards, Grants & Fellowships

2025–26Netherlands Film Festival Research Fellowship, Utrecht
2025International Presentation Grant, Mondriaan Fonds
2024Artist Project Grant (×2), Mondriaan Fonds
2023Development Voucher, Mondriaan Fonds
2022International Presentation & Artist Project Grants, Mondriaan Fonds
2021Driving the Human prototype grant, Berlin
2020–24Proven Talent Grant (Bewezen Talent), Mondriaan Fonds
2020Forecast Platform, Berlin
Kone Foundation, Helsinki
2018–19Talbot Rice Projects Fellowship, Edinburgh
2015–17NEARCH Art & Archaeology Fellowship, European Commission
2012AAF Prize for Fine Arts, American Austrian Foundation

Selected Exhibitions & Screenings

2026NFF Fellows exhibition, Netherlands Film Festival Utrecht, NL(upcoming)
2025TIJD, WG-terrein, Amsterdam
Interspecies Interfaces, Solar Biennale / EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne
2024As Messengers, Allard Pierson, Amsterdam
TIME: 40 Years WG-terrein, LAB111, Amsterdam
2023Museum LAC, Lugano
CAC - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva · Fabrica, Treviso
2022Geological Evidences (solo), galeria SKALA, Poznań
Walk&Talk, Azores
Unearthing the Present, HKW - House of World Cultures, Berlin
2021Driving the Human, Radialsystem, Berlin
Insectageddon (Cecilia Vicuña), The High Line, New York
2020Vdrome · Cinema of Worldmaking, Biennale Gherdëina
2019IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam
EYE Experimentals, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Drained Atlas, puntWG, Amsterdam
2018Dissident Gardens, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool
2017Materiality of the Invisible, Marres, Maastricht, NL
Impakt, Utrecht