CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
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 a 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, New Yorker, Financial Times, Harpers and Le Monde. Public and private collections have acquired Chloe’s work, including the British Council Art Collection, the National Galleries of Scotland and the Irish State Art Collection. She has also received commissions from institutions such as the Contemporary Art Society, Oxford University and Photoworks. 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 her nominations include the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, the Prix Pictet and Paul Huf Award. Chloe’s first monograph ‘Shot at Dawn’ was published by Ivorypress in 2014 and in the same year she became the Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. In 2018 she published Caspian: the Elements with Aperture / Peabody Press and In Search of Frankenstein with Kodoji Press.