Chloe Dewe Mathews

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023  IN SEARCH OF FRANKENSTEIN, MBAL Museum of Fine Arts Le Loche, Switzerland
2021 THAMES LOG, Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol
2021 THAMES LOG, Christ Church Meadows, Oxford
2019  CASPIAN: THE ELEMENTS, Peabody Museum Harvard, Boston
2018  CASPIAN: THE ELEMENTS, Aperture Foundation, New York
2018  IN SEARCH OF FRANKENSTEIN, Impressions Gallery, Bradford
2018  IN SEARCH OF FRANKENSTEIN, Greenhouse Gallery, Guernsey
2018  IN SEARCH OF FRANKENSTEIN, British Library, London
2016  SHOT AT DAWN, Ivorypress, Madrid
2015  SHOT AT DAWN, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2015  CONGREGATION, Bosse & Baum, London, in collaboration with Tate Modern
2014  SHOT AT DAWN, STILLS: Scotland’s Centre for Photography, Edinburgh
2014  SUNDAY SERVICE, Tate Modern, London
2013  CASPIAN, Central Dupon Images, Paris
2013  CASPIAN, The Barn, Oxford
2013  SUMMONING THE CARETOS, Entre Margens Photo Festival, Vila Real, Portugal
2011  CASPIAN, Foto8 Gallery, London
2009  BANGER BOYS OF BRITAIN, Balcorne Street, London
2006  ROLLINGAS, MOD, Buenos Aires
2004  BIRDMAN, The Loft Gallery, Oxford
2003  SOLO SHOW, The Dolphin Gallery, Oxford

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023  RE/SISTERS, Barbican Gallery, London
2023  Walking Through the Darkness, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2023  Divided Selves, The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry
2023  MAST Photography Grant on Industry and Work, Foundazione MAST, Bologna
2022  The Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2021  Positive Pleasure, Dong Gang Museum of Photography, South Korea
2020  MAST Photography Grant on Industry and Work, Fondazione MAST, Bologna
2020  Unravel, Plovdiv Gallery of Fine Art, Plovdiv
2019  Seaside Photographed, Turner Contemporary
2019  Secret Rivers, Museum of London Docklands
2019  Remembering Lanscape, De Markten, Brussels
2018  Remembering Lanscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest 2018  London Nights, Museum of London
2018  Remembering Landscape, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
2017  No Man’s Land, Impressions Gallery, Bradford
2016  Thames Log at Estuary, Tilbury Cruise Terminal
2015  Conflict, Time, Photography, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden 2015  Mijn Vlakke Land, FotoMuseum, Antwerp
2015  Emerging, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles
2015  Conflict, Time, Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen
2014  Conflict, Time, Photography, Tate Modern, London
2013  Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
2012  Photovoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs, London
2012  System of Objects, The Departure Foundation, London
2012  Call the World Brother, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, UK
2011  Flash Forward Festival, Toronto, Canada
2011  Photovoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs, London
2011  FOTO8 Summershow, Host Gallery, London
2008  !WOWOW! Transmediele Festival, Club Maria, Berlin
2007  !WOWOW! The Event, Curzon Street Station, Birmingham
2005  !WOWOW! Spectacular Spectacular!  The Cooperative Gallery, London
2004  Moroccan Dream, The 20th Century Gallery, London
2004  Atomic Art Bomb, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
2003  Seedy Rushes, Botanical Garden, Oxford

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2019  American Alliance of Museums Publication Design, First Prize for Caspian: the Elements
2019  New England Book Awards, Best in Category, Illustrated books, for Caspian: the Elements
2016  Royal Photographic Society Vic Odden Award
2014  Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography at the Peabody Museum, Harvard
2014  Prix Pictet DISORDER, nomination
2014  FOAM Paul Huf Award, nomination
2013  MACK First Book Award, nomination
2012  Prix Pictet POWER, nomination
2012  Joop Swart World Press Masterclass, nomination
2012  London Photography Award, shortlisted
2012  PDN’s 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, selected
2011  British Journal of Photography International Photography Award, winner
2011  Julia Margaret Cameron New Talent Award, Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, winner
2011  Julia Margaret Cameron 1st Prize Documentary and Editorial Portfolio Award, Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, winner
2011  Flash Forward Emerging Photographer’s Award, Magenta Foundation, winner

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

National Galleries Scotland
Morgan Library, New York
British Council Art Collection
National Library of Wales
Irish State Art Collection
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum (acquired with assistance from Art Fund)
Sheffield Museums (acquired with assistance from Contemporary Art Society)
Museum of London (acquired with assistance from Contemporary Art Society)
National Gallery of Wales
British Library, London
Harvard Art Museums, Boston
Davis Museum, Wellesley

BOOKS

THAMES LOG
Published by Loose Joints / Martin Parr Foundation, 2021. Text by Marina Warner
Soft cover with French-fold pages, 152 pages, 76 colour plates, 240 x 295mm

Caspian: the Elements
Published by Aperture / Peabody Museum Press, 2018. Texts by Chloe Dewe Mathews, Jeffery Quilter, Morad Montazami, Sean O’Hagan, and Arnold van Bruggen
Hardback with jacket, 216 pages, 120 colour plates, 190 x 260 mm

In Search of Frankenstein – Mary Shelley’s Nightmare
Published by Kodoji Press, 2018. Texts by Chloe Dewe Mathews, Paul Goodwin, Alexa Jeanne Kusber and Kiki Thompson
Softback with 192 pages, 128 color plates, 170 × 230 mm

SHOT AT DAWN
Published by Ivorypress, 2014. Texts by Geoff Dyer, Hew Strachan, Helen McCarthy and Paul Bonaventura
Hardback with 126 pages, 23 colour illustrations, 235 x 295 mm

Sunday Service
Published by Tate, 2014. Texts by Synthia Griffin and Phil Stokes Softback with 54 pages, 33 colour illustrations, 185 x 295 mm

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2016  Verbier 3-D Foundation, Switzerland
2013  St. John’s College, Oxford University
2013  METAL, Southend

SELECTED ARTIST’S TALKS AND UNIVERSITY LECTURES

Museum of London
Harvard University
Somerset House, London
Tate Modern
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Tate Britain
Turner Contemporary
University of Ulster
Plymouth University
London College of Communication
North East Photo Network, Newcastle
Redeye Photography Network, Manchester
Napier University, Edinburgh
Bristol Festival of Ideas
Brighton Photo Biennial
The Blue Coat, Liverpool
St John’s College Oxford
Photo Meeting OjodePez, Barcelona
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Frontline Club, London
The Prince’s Drawing School, London

PARTICIPATORY TEACHING

2007-2010  Facilitator for Photovoice, leading participatory photography projects in London, Mexico City and Beijing

PRESS AND PUBLICATION

New Yorker, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Telegraph, The New York Times Magazine, The FT Weekend Magazine, The Observer, M Le Monde magazine, The Independent, Intelligent Life Magazine, The British Journal of Photography, Photo District News, Foto8, Harpers Bazaar, IL Intelligence in Lifestyle, Monika, Vision Magazine China, Dazed and Confused, i-D Magazine.

EDUCATION

2001-2004  Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University. Fine Art BA / MA
2000-2001  Camberwell Art College, London. Art and Design Foundation Course

BIOGRAPHY

Chloe Dewe Mathews is an award-winning photographic artist based in St Leonards on-Sea. After studying fine art at Camberwell College of Arts and the University of Oxford, she worked in the feature film industry before dedicating herself to  photography. 

Her work is internationally recognised, exhibiting at Tate Modern, Irish Museum of  Modern Art, Museum Folkwang and Fotomuseum Antwerp, as well as being  published widely in newspapers and magazines such as the Guardian, the New  Yorker, the Financial Times and Le Monde.  

She is the recipient of the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from Harvard  University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and her work is held in  public collections such as the British Council Art Collection, the National Galleries of Scotland and the Irish State Art Collection. She has also been commissioned to make new work by institutions such as the Contemporary Art Society, Photoworks,  Fondazione MAST and Frac Nouvelle Aquitaine. 

Her awards include the British Journal of Photography International Photography  Award, the Julia Margaret Cameron New Talent Award and the Royal Photographic Society Vic Odden Award and nominations include the Deutsche Börse Photography  Prize, the Prix Pictet and Paul Huf Award. 

Four monographs have been published on Chloe’s work to date: Shot at Dawn  (Ivorypress, 2014), Caspian: the Elements (Aperture / Peabody Press, 2018), In Search  of Frankenstein (Kodoji Press, 2018) and Thames Log (Loose Joints / Martin Parr  Foundation, 2021).