Matthew C. Wilson

About

Matthew C. Wilson is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher.

Education

2013–14Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY, US
2011–13MFA in Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY, US
2010Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME, US
2000–06BA in Art & Design / BA in English, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Selected Residencies & Fellowships

2024Enter the Hyper-Scientific, EPFL, Lausanne, CH
NIAS - Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study/KNAW - Society of Arts, Amsterdam, NL
2023Future Heritage, IAS & Allard Pierson, Amsterdam, NL
InResidence, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, PT
2022Planetary Scholars & Artists, JLU Giessen, DE
2021–22Walk & Talk, São Miguel, Azores, PT
2019Aalto University, Espoo, FI
2018Terra Summer Residency, Giverny, FR
Tabakalera, Donostia–San Sebastián, ES
2016–18Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
2012Salzburg Summer Academy, Salzburg, AT
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, IT

Selected Awards, Grants & Fellowships

2025–26Netherlands Film Festival Research Fellowship, Utrecht, NL
2025International Presentation Grant, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2024Artist Project Grant (×2), Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2022International Presentation & Artist Project Grants, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2020–24Proven Talent Grant (Bewezen Talent), Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2020Forecast Platform, Berlin, DE
Kone Foundation, Helsinki, FI
2018Talbot Rice Projects Fellowship, Edinburgh, UK
2015–17NEARCH Art & Archaeology Fellowship, European Commission, Brussels, BE
2012AAF Prize for Fine Arts, American Austrian Foundation, New York, NY, US

Selected Exhibitions & Screenings

2026 NFF Fellows exhibition, Storyspace, Utrecht, NL (upcoming)
2025 From Solar to Nocturnal/Interspecies Interfaces, Solar Biennale, EPFL Pavilions, curated by Giulia Bini, Lausanne, CH
2024 As Messengers, collaboration with Emilia Tapprest, Allard Pierson, Amsterdam, NL
TIME, WG-terrein film festival, screening, LAB111, Amsterdam, NL
2023 The Future is Open, screening, Museum LAC, curated by Giovanna Manzotti, Lugano, CH
Owlet Vision in Blinding Time, CAC - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH
Co-ecologies, screening, Fabrica Research Centre, invited by Carlos Casas, Treviso, IT
Transitions Festival, video installation, organized by Video Power, Maastricht, NL
2022 Geological Evidences, solo, galeria SKALA, curated by Arkadiusz Półtorak, Poznań, PL
Walk&Talk Festival of Art, curated by Irene Campolmi, Jesse James & Sofia Botelho, São Miguel, Azores, PT
Unearthing the Present, screening, HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
2021 Driving the Human, Radialsystem, Berlin, DE
Insectageddon, organized by Cecilia Vicuña, The High Line, New York, NY, US
2020 Geological Evidences, Vdrome.org, curated by Andrea Lissoni & Filipa Ramos
Cinema of Worldmaking, curated by Adam Budak, Biennale Gherdëina, Val Gardena, Dolomites, IT
Last Day of Creation, Hraničář Gallery, curated by Anna Remešová & Martina Johnová, Ústí nad Labem, CZ
2019 Drained Atlas, two-person exhibition with Oscar Santillán, puntWG, Amsterdam, NL
The Institute of Cosmic Superposition, curated by Pádraic E. Moore, V2Vingt, Brussels, BE
EYE Experimentals, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Liquid Flames of the Solid Core, curated by Àngels Miralda, Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, HR
After Nature, screening program, curated by Gabriel Ruiz-Larrea, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, ES
IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam, History Deletes Itself, Rotterdam, NL
2018 Quantum Real, curated by Joasia Krysa & Lars Bang Larsen, Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool, UK
Dissident Gardens, solo artist project, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
Nomadic Mountains, SCHUNCK*, Heerlen, NL
2017 Mythscapes, Impakt 17: Haunted Machines & Wicked Problems, Utrecht, NL
Materiality of the Invisible, Marres, Maastricht, NL