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(b.1991, Nottingham)
Matt Antoniak is an artist and curator based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He has exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. His practice is based in painting, and wall drawing, and his interests are in ideas of artistic hierarchy, value and of art making itself.
He is the co-director of Slugtown – a not-for-profit art gallery working with emerging and early career artists in ambitious solo and group exhibitions. He runs workshops with local youth programmes and after school clubs as part of the public programme SlugClub, designed to increase engagement with contemporary art.
Previously he has worked in various roles for a number of arts organisations, and was member of the artist collective MILK from 2015–18.
Education
2011–15 Newcastle University
Exhibitions
2025
CONVENT Art Space, Ghent, BE (upcoming)
Piccalilli Fundraiser, Piccalilli, London, UK
2024
Beyond the Goldmine Standard, Gallagher and Turner, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2023
Piccalilli Fundraiser, Piccalilli, London, UK
Slugtown Fundraiser 2023, Slugtown, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Annihilation, OHSH Projects, London
Scrapings, Piccalilli, London, UK [solo]
2022
Photocopies II, Recent Activity, Birmingham, UK
Shieldfield Home, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Piccalilli Fundraiser, 161 Kirk, London, UK
Sticker Book, 36 Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
The Kippenberger Challenge, 7.45 Books, [online]
2021
Now That's What I Call Art, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK
Dreamlands: Part 2, OHSH Projects, London, UK
EXH 07, Floor Magazine, UK [online]
Group Show, Shrine, New York, USA [online]
2019
Workplace Foundation, Gateshead, UK (solo)
Sasquatch, Test Space, Spike Island, Bristol, UK (solo)
Testing, Unit 3 Projects, London, UK
2018
Manchester Contemporary, Workplace Foundation, Manchester, UK
Breaking into Heaven, curated by Workplace, Conduit Club, London, UK
Splash, curated by SHELF, Spanish City, Whitley Bay, UK
The Everyday Political, curated by George Vasey and Workplace, CGP, London, UK
Elbows at Dawn, Abingdon Studios, Blackpool, UK
2017
Manchester Contemporary, Workplace Foundation, Manchester, UK
Les Boîtes, Suede Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
The Bunt, Ginny Projects, London, UK
People See Nothing, Division of Labour, London, UK
East Midlands Today, Two Queens, Leicester, UK
Like the green fig tree, Workplace, Gateshead, UK
Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Albert Road, Middlesbrough, UK
2016
From the Rocks Above the Pass, House of Blah Blah, Middlesbrough, UK.
Party, 36 Lime St, Newcastle, UK
Trojan Horse, Laing Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Pi Day, NewBridge Project, Newcastle, UK
JAMBON – Our Biggest Ever January Sale, NewBridge Project, Newcastle, UK
2015
XMAS DINNER, 136 Shields Road, Newcastle, UK
Rubbernecker, 136 Shields Road, Newcastle, UK
Face Value, 36 Lime St, Newcastle, UK
Devil's Elbow, Holy Biscuit, Newcastle, UK
Good Grief, Bridge+Tunnel, Newcastle, UK
Fluorescent, Soho Open House Arts Festival, London, UK
Neo Art Prize, neo, Bolton, UK
Degree Show, SCIN, London, UK
Degree Show, Newcastle University, UK
International Postcard Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Residencies
2022
Artist in residence, Bradford School of Art, Bradford, UK
2021
East Bristol Contemporary, UK (online)
New Platform Art: Development Programme, UK (online)
2016
Royal Drawing School, Dumfries House, Cumnock, UK
Awards and Funding
2024
Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England
2022
Time, Space, Money, a-n
2019
Eaton Fund
2015
A.M Parkin Prize
2012
John Christie Prize
Collections
Prince's Trust Collection, UK
Private collections, UK
Lectures
2025
Associate Lecturer, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2024
Associate Lecturer, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Visiting Artist Lecturer, Northumbria University Art Foundation, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Visiting Artist Lecturer, University of Cumbria, Carlisle, UK
2023
Associate Lecturer, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Guest Lecturer in Painting, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2022
Visiting lecture, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2021
Visiting lecture, MIMA School of Art, Middlesbrough, UK
2020
Visiting lecture, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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