Matt Roberts

Select Exhibits              

Curated Fridge and Candela Gallery - “Altered Memories",” Summer 2024 Praxis Gallery, Chicago, IL -- “Diptych”, Spring 2024 The Curated Fridge, Boston, MA, Autumn 2023 (Curator: Gordon Stettinus, Candela Books) Site: Brooklyn Gallery - “Landscape: Constructed & Wild,” Jan-Mar 2023 (Juror: A Gotthardt, SF Museum of Modern Art) Montclair Art Museum and Leach Gallery - SMI’s “Inspired by Inness,” Fall 2022 Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA - Photo Review’s “Best of Show,” Fall 2022 Site: Brooklyn Gallery – “Photography: A Sense of Place,” Spring 2021
SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC – “Forgotten”, Nov 2019
Millepiani Space, Rome, Italy – LoosenArt’s “Surfaces,” 2018
Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA – “The Curated Fridge,” Autumn 2017 (Juror: Brian Paul Clamp of ClampArt, NYC)
“Matt Roberts: 40 Years of Photography”, Montclair Public Library, Feb 2017                                                                                                                                         George Segal Gallery , NJ – “Art Connections 12” (Juror: Willie Cole), 2016
PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT – “Earth and Sky”, 2015
Duncan Miller Gallery, CA – “YourDailyPhotograph”, 2015                                                                                                                                                                    
Aljira, Newark, NJ – “Viewpoints 2015” (Juror: Jeffrey Wechsler, Zimmerli Art Museum), 2015  
City Without Walls (CWOW), Newark, NJ – “Layers”, 2014
NY Center for Photographic Art (Juror: Darren Ching, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY), 2014                                                                                                         Colorado Photo Arts Center – “One by One” (Juror: Eric Paddock, Curator, Denver Art Museum), 2014                                                                                               Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR – “Journeys”, 2013                                                                                                                                                                               PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT – “Mountains and Sea”, 2013                                                                                                                                                          
CWOW – “Constructed Ambiguity” (Curator: Gary Garrido Schneider, Montclair Art Museum), 2012                                                                                                   George Segal Gallery, Montclair State Univ. – “Art Connections 8”, 2012                                                                                                                                               Arts Guild Of New Jersey – “Nexus NJ” (Juror: Sharon Matt Atkins, Brooklyn Museum), 2010                                                                                                             Perkins Center for the Arts – “Photography 29” (Juror: Julia Dolan, Phila. Museum of Art), 2010                                                                                                         William Paterson Univ. – “Departures” (Juror: Phong Bui, The Brooklyn Rail), 2010                                                                                                                              Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ – “Essex Exposed”, 2009                                                                                                                                                                    
Studio Montclair Juried Shows (various locations and themes), 1998-2014                                                                                                                                             American Society of Media Photographers Juried Shows, 1996, 1997                                                                                                                                                  
Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, 1991                                                                                                                                                                                                
Neikrug Gallery, New York City – “Rated X”, 1990

Online Magazines/Blogs

Float Magazine - “Imperfect Poetry,” July 2024 Tidings of Magpies Magazine - interview and portfolio of 48 photographs, June 2023 The Flying Fruit Bowl, London, UK - five photoconstructions, June 2023 ArtDoc Magazine -”Enigma of Life,” June 2023; “Alternative Process,” Dec 2022 Float Magazine - “Goodbye Summer,” Fall 2022 Lenscratch - “Pairs and Diptychs,” Feb 2022

Rfotofolio - 2021 Selections: Work of Merit
Photo Review – Sixth Prize in the 2021 Photo Competition (Juror: Christopher James)
Musee Magazine – portfolio of seven collages, Aug 2021
Ain’t Bad Magazine – “Generational Spirit,” Aug 2021
Lenscratch – “Politics of the Kitchen” (Curators: Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman), Apr 2021
Fstop Magazine – Issues #105 & 106 - “The Constructed Image” and “Self-Portrait,” Feb & Apr 2021
Art Doc Magazine – “Japanese Garden,” 2020
Ain’t Bad Magazine – “The New Normal,” 2020
Don’t Take Pictures – Photo of the Day, June 2020
Cumulus Photo – “The Pivotal Image,” inaugural issue, Spring 2020
Feature Shoot – Best Pictures of the Week, June 2020
Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN – “Quarantine: Daily Life, Global Crisis”, Apr 2020
Lenscratch – “Self-Quarantining”, Apr 2020
Float Photo Magazine – portfolio of 17 triptychs from the series “Stalking,” June 2017
F-Stop, Issue #86, “Street Photography,” 2017
Inspired Eye, Issue#41 , Feb 2017
Your Daily Photograph (Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA) – Jan 2017, July 2016
Rfotofolio – feature and interview January 2016
Lenscratch – “Favorite Photographs” January 2016
L’Oeil de la Photographie – portfolio of Times Square photographs, December 2015
Feature Shoot, July 2015 F-Stop, Issue #77, 2016; Issue #65, 2014

Publications

Float Magazine - “Imperfect Poetry,” July 2024 The Hand Magazine, Issue 25, Summer 2024 Suburban Essex Magazine - feature and five photographs, Winter 2022 The Sun magazine, April 2021
“I Can Hear the Road Call,” Sad Bird Books, Summer 2020
“Short Street Stories,” LoosenArt (intro by Nick Turpin), Spring 2019
The Hand Magazine, January 2017
Book covers for Robbins Music and Drake Publishing
Portfolio of photomontages in (t)here magazine

Grants/Awards

New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships
(2023, 1999, 1990)

Lectures/Panels

City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Montclair Public Library
Oscar Schindler Performing Arts Center, West Orange, NJ
Columbia University

Education

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY – completed one year in MFA program                                                                                                                                                       Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT – B.A.