Matthew Higgs
Honored for his long-term, passionate commitment to supporting artists throughout their careers, for his prolific curatorial and writing career, and for his insight which he shares through his research, exhibitions, writings, and pioneering work at White Columns.
Born in the U.K., Higgs trained and worked as an artist before also becoming known for his independent publishing and curatorial projects that raised the profile of emerging artists through the 1990s. In 2001 he relocated to the U.S., to San Francisco, where he became curator of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts, and later the co-chair of the College’s MFA program. He now lives and works in New York where for the last six years he has been director of the non-profit art space, White Columns.
For nearly 20 years, Higgs has shown consistent ways to supports artists, artist-groups, and curators, through his writing, interviews, curating, and teaching, as well as his reinvention and on-going development of White Columns as a space for people to experiment with the presentation of new ideas and work. Since 1992 he has organized over 250 artists projects and exhibitions, and written for more than 50 publications and art magazines. He is tirelessly making studio visits and proposing projects with new and overlooked artists, including consistently championing a group of developmentally disabled artists from the non-profit organization Creative Growth by writing on their work and including it in many exhibitions.
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Exhibition Related ER: Create Curator talk with Lawrence Rinder and Matthew HiggsOctober 3, 2012 @ Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery Find out more »
In conjunction with the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery’s presentation of Create, this October 3rd both curators Lawrence Rinder and Matthew Higgs will be present at the gallery to give a special talk about the exhibition.
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Contemporary Curatorial Practice
Program dates:July 8–17, 2012
Find out more »Application Deadline: Passed
Focusing on new models for curating and exhibition development, ICI’s annual summer Curatorial Intensive offers curators the opportunity to meet colleagues from around the world and share ideas on how to push the parameters of their practice.
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CreateCurated by Lawrence Rinder, Matthew Higgs Find out more »
Create is a group show that will bring well-deserved attention to the compelling work created over the past 20 years by artists with developmental disabilities.
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Summer 2011
Program dates:July 10–18, 2011
Find out more »In summer 2011, 10–14 curators from around the world were selected to participate in the Curatorial Intensive for a rigorous 8-day schedule of workshops, discussions, critiques, and presentations, as well as site visits to local institutions, private collections and artists’ studios.
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Summer 2010
Program dates:June 6-17, 2010
Find out more »The first iteration of The Curatorial Intensive took place in June 2010 in New York for emerging curators.
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FAXCurated by João Ribas Find out more »
FAX invites a multigenerational group of artists, as well as architects, designers, scientists and filmmakers, to conceive of the fax machine as a tool for thinking and drawing.