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Matthew Buckingham

About Matthew Buckingham

Photo of Matthew Buckingham.

Buckingham

Matthew Buckingham is a New York-based artist who utilizes photography, film, video, audio, writing, and drawing to question the role social memory plays in contemporary life. Buckingham’s work has been shown at numerous institutions around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among several others. He has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Danish Film Institute in addition to a German Academic Exchange Service Artist Residency Grant and a Henry and Natalie Freund Teaching Fellowship at the Washington University School of Art.

Matthew Buckingham received his B.A. in film production and film studies from the University of Iowa in 1988, and in 1996 he completed an M.F.A. at Bard College. In 1997, he participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program, a division of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. His work, including films, drawings and photographs, has been shown at numerous museums and galleries around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung, Vienna, Austria; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and the PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. In 2003, he was awarded a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service) Artist Residency Grant that enabled him to live and work in Berlin during that year. He has also been the recipient of grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Danish Film Institute.

In 2004, he was awarded a Henry and Natalie Freund Teaching Fellowship at the Washington University School of Art, St. Louis, Missouri. He also serves as an external tutor at the Art Academy in Malmö, Sweden.

Black and white photo by Buckingham of a helicopter taking off from a heliport.

Matthew Buckingham, West Side Heliport, Manhattan, from Muhheakantuck–Everything Has a Name, 2004, black-and-white photograph