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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
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
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
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
BOOKS
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
2014 SHOT AT DAWN
Published by Ivorypress. Texts by Geoff Dyer, Hew Strachan, Helen McCarthy and Paul Bonaventura
Hardback with 126 pages, 23 colour illustrations, 235 x 295 mm
2014 Sunday Service
Published by Tate. 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
TALKS
2015 University of Ulster, Belfast
2015 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2015 Tate Britain, London
2015 Redeye Photography Network, Manchester
2015 Richmond University, London
2014 University of the West of England, Bristol
2014 Napier University, Edinburgh
2014 Tate Modern, London
2014 Stills: Scotland’s Centre for Photography, Edinburgh
2014 Bristol Festival of Ideas
2014 Brighton Photo Biennial
2014 London College of Communication
2014 New College Stamford
2013 The Blue Coat, Liverpool International Photography Festival
2013 St John’s College, Oxford
2013 Hereford College of Arts
2012 Photo Meeting OjodePez, Barcelona
2012 Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
2012 Frontline Club, London
2011 Host Gallery, London
2012 Photo Forum, London
2011 BJP VISION 2011, London
2011 Roof Unit, London
TEACHING
2013 City Sketchbook: Between Drawing and Photography, The Prince’s Drawing School
2007-2010 Facilitator for Photovoice, leading participatory photography projects in London, Mexico City and Beijing
PRESS AND PUBLICATION
The Sunday Times Magazine, The Telegraph, The Guardian, 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, Burn Magazine, Verve Photo online, f2 Freelance Photographer.
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, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Harpers and Le Monde.
Public and private collections have acquired Chloe’s work, including the British Council Art Collection, the Irish State Art Collection and the National Library of Wales. 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.