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MATTHEW J. BROWN
matthew.j.brown@asu.edu
EDUCATION:
2021 Master of Fine Arts University of Georgia
with distinction Athens, Ga.
2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, Tenn.
TEACHING
2021 - 2022 Instructor University of Georgia ARST 2205L: Intro to Photo and Image Culture
Instructor University of Georgia ARST 3800: Transmedia
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Instructor University of Georgia ARST 3200: Black and White Photography
Instructor University of Georgia ARST 2205L: Intro to Photo and Image Culture
Instructor University of Georgia ARST 3800: Transmedia
Teaching Assistant University of Georgia ARST 3210: Color Photography
Marni Shindelman
2020-2021 Instructor Summer Academy at the University of Georgia: Intro to Photography
Teaching Assistant University of Georgia ARST 3220 Advanced Film and Camera
Stephen Scheer
Instructor of Record University of Georgia ARST 2205L: Intro to Photo and Image Culture
2019-2020 Instructor of Record University of Georgia ARST 2210: Intro to Photo and Image Culture
Teaching Assistant University of Georgia ARST 3220 Advanced Film and Camera
Stephen Scheer
WORK:
2024 Photography Program Manager Arizona State University
Tempe, Az.
2022 Studio Art Technician University of Georgia
Athens, Ga.
2023 Image Technician INSIEME
For Irina Rozovsky Irina Rozovsky and Mark Steinmetz
Chose Commune (2023)
2023 Image Technician
For Mark Steinmetz
2023 Image Technician Perpetual Care
For Clay Maxwell Jordan Clay Maxwell Jordan
Fall Line Press (2024)
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Engaging the South Tipton Gallery
Johnson City, Tenn.
2022 Mallrats Family Photo Studio
Curated by Michael Raines The Lloyd Center Mall
Portland, Or.
Investigations in Infrastructure Detroit, Mi.
Curated by Noah Waldeck
Everything is Narrative Detroit, Mi.
Curated by Noah Waldeck
Towns that Bloom Athens, Ga.
with Blue Ridge Ribbon
2021 When in Athens Downtown Athens, Ga
Curated by Irina Rozovsky
and Mark Steinmetz, The Humid
Whistling in the Dark: MFA 2021 Athenaeum
Athens, Ga.
2020 Shelter Projects: Willson Center
Sleep Schedule Athens, Ga.
Looking At Appalachia The Clay Center, Juliet Art Museum
Charleston, W. Va.
September 2020 - January 2021
Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art, Piedmont College
Demorest, Ga.
June 12 - August 20
School of Visual Communication Gallery, Ohio University
Athens, Ohio
February 7 - February 28
Honor Roll Atlanta Photography Group
Atlanta, Ga.
2019 Looking At Appalachia Drinko Library, Marshall University
Huntington, W. Va.
Fall Line Photo Jam Exhibition Downtown Sparta, Ga.
Ringer: Contemporary Portraiture Athens Institute for Contemporary Art
Athens, Ga.
Playing Possum II Five Bananas Gallery
Athens, Ga.
Looking At Appalachia Massillon Museum
Massillon, Ohio
Positive / Negative 34 Slocumb Gallery
Curated by Ann Meisinger, Johnson City, Tenn.
Independent Curator, and Assistant Educator,
Public Programs & Creative Practice,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
2018 Flux Thomas Street Finishing School
Athens, Ga.
Playing Possum Five Bananas Gallery
Athens, Ga.
New Developments Reece Museum
Johnson City, Tenn.
2017 Looking At Appalachia : West Virginia University Libraries
Selected images from 2014-2016 Morgantown, W. Va.
Scarborough Library, Shepherd University
Shepherdstown, W. Va.
Under The Influence Reece Museum
Johnson City, Tenn.
High Sign Tipton Gallery
Student Photography Association Johnson City, Tenn.
Group Exhibition
2016 Current Elements Fine Arts Building Gallery
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Va.
New Developments Space Place Gallery
Nizhny Tagil, Russia
Student Honor Show Slocumb Gallery
Juried by: Carolyn Grosch Johnson City, Tenn.
Curator, Asheville Art Museum
Documentum: Poem 88 Gallery
Curated by artists Stephen Shore, Atlanta, Ga.
William Boling, Dawn Kim, David
Campany and Chris Rhodes
2015 Orientation Slocumb Gallery
Johnson City, Tenn.
Taking Care of Business Tipton Gallery
Student Photography Association Johnson City, Tenn.
Group Exhibition
Art Through The Lens Yeiser Art Center
Sarah Sudhoff, Executive Director, Paducah, Ky.
Houston Center for Photography
PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
2023 ESPN College GameDay Built by The Home Depot
University of Georgia vs. Ole Miss
Photographed for Octagon
November 11, 2022
2022 ESPN College GameDay Built by The Home Depot
University of Georgia vs. University of Tennessee
Photographed for Octagon
November 5, 2022
Bottega Veneta store opening
Atlanta, Ga.
Assistant for Mark Steinmetz,
lead editor of selected photographs
Fortune.com: Private equity is the biggest player in a booming autism-therapy industry.
Some therapists say the ‘money grab’ is hurting the quality of care
https://fortune.com/2022/07/29/autism-therapy-care-centers-private-equity-hopebridge/
Seeing Red
Float Magazine
Curated by Dana Stirling
https://www.floatmagazine.us/online-exhibitions/exhibitions/seeing-red
Icon & Spirit
Issue 2
2021 Investigations in Infrastructure
Subjectively Objective
Curated by Noah Waldeck
Everything is Narrative
Subjectively Objective
Curated by Noah Waldeck
TOO TIRED PROJECT ANTHOLOGY, VOLUME I
First Edition limited to 100 copies
Edited/Designed by Kelly Burgess
ISBN: 978-1-7379855-0-1
2019 “Help Me Languish Here”
Hobart Photo Stories
http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/help-me-languish-here
2018 “The Culture of Convenience”
Oxford American
https://www.oxfordamerican.org/item/1653-the-culture-of-convenience
Kingsport Times News
http://www.timesnews.net/Art-Culture/2018/06/28/
Explore-New-Developments-at-ETSU-s-Reece-Museum.html
2017 Ain’t Bad Magazine
https://www.aint-bad.com/article/2017/12/13/matthew-j-brown-2/
Looking at Appalachia
http://lookingatappalachia.org/tennessee#/id/i12360953
Some Days Just Are
Collabrative photo series by Tara Wray
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/some-days-just-are-featuring-photographers-frank- blazquez_us_59b1443ee4b0bef3378cddec
Catduate School
June 8th & April 7th
Lenscratch
http://lenscratch.com/2017/05/the-2017-mommie-dearest-exhibition-part-2/
The Latent Image
by Max Marshall
http://latentimage.us/2017/03/06/matthew-j-brown-split/
The Mockingbird Vol. 44
April 2017
Under The Influence:
Works by Students of Mike Smith at
East Tennessee State University 1981-2016
2016 Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine
“The Future of Appalachia” Vol. 32 No. 2
Fotoblogia.pl
April 13, 2016
http://ow.ly/4mPAaA
iGNANT
March 17, 2016
www.ignant.de/2016/03/17/the-overlooked-details-of-university-life/
Documentum Vol. 1: The Instagram Series
Feburary 20, 2016
http://archive.documentum.tv/Matthew-Brown
Oxford American: Eyes on the South
Feburary 16, 2016
http://www.oxfordamerican.org/item/771-campus-spaces
It’s Nice That
Feburary 10, 2016
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/matthew-brown-orientation-100216
Aint-Bad Magazine
January 30, 2016
http://www.aintbadmagazine.com/article/2016/01/30/matthew-j-brown/
2015 American Photography 31
Chosen Image
http://www.ai-ap.com/slideshow/AP/31/?status=chosen#21
2014 Interview with Dave Jordano
Contemporary Photographer Series / ETSU Photo
http://etsuphoto.blogspot.com/2014/04/contemporary-photographer-series-dave.html
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2024 Guest Artist Lecture
Arizona State University
Benjamin Timpson
2023 Guest Artist Lecture
International Center for Photography
Irina Rozovsky
2020 Guest Artist Lecture
Mobile Photography
East Tennessee State University
Tema Stauffer
2019 Looney Foundation Graduate Award
2018 PDN 30 Nominee
2017 First Place in Short Film Category and Audience Choice
Due Date (Dir. David Floyd)
Director of Photography
Tennessee Communication Association
2015 - 2017 Artist in Residence
East Tennessee State University
Monitored two digital labs for six hours per week in conjunction with the residency
2015 Student-Faculty Collaborative Grant
East Tennessee State University Honors College
Sponsor: Michael A. Smith
Sponsored Doug DuBois lecture and critique
Funding provided by Student Government Association
2014 Studio Assistant for Mike Smith
Scanned and cataloged archive color negatives
COLLECTIONS
Duke University
East Tennessee State University
University of Georgia