ABOUT
Matt Herriot [b.1999] is a British painter. He received a BA in Art and History of Art from Yale University in 2022, and will complete his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2025. His paintings investigate abstraction.
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2022 - Painting As Seeing, Aisling Gallery, The Study at Yale, New Haven, CT, USA
2022 - In The Shade, Aisling Gallery, The Study at Yale, New Haven, CT, USA
2021 - Strata, Aisling Gallery, The Study at Yale, New Haven, CT, USA
2021 - Grounded, Aisling Gallery, The Study at Yale, New Haven, CT, USA
2019 - Chroma, Aisling Gallery, The Study at Yale, New Haven, CT, USA
2019 - Hue, Yale University, Branford College HoC House, New Haven, CT, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 - Pictures (of Nothing), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2022 - Two-Person Teaching Exhibition with Henri Matisse, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
2022 - Senior Thesis Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA
2021 - Senior Thesis Midway Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA
2019 - The Yale Layer Edition X Exhibition, Jonathan Edwards Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
2019 - Nostalgia, Art Exhibition Society at Yale, Sterling Memorial Library, New Haven, CT, USA
2018 - Maddox Gallery Summer Contemporary, Maddox Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK
2018 - The Alzheimer's Show, Olympia London, Hammersmith, London, UK
2018 - Universal Language 2, A&D Gallery, Marylebone, London, UK
2018 - Parallax Art Fair, Kensington Town Hall, Kensington, London, UK
2017 - The National Open Art Exhibition, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London, UK
2017 - The National Open Art Exhibition (Finalists), Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
2016 - The South West Academy Open Exhibition, Exeter Castle, Exeter, UK
EDUCATION
2025 - MFA (anticipated), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2022 - BA, Art and History of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
awards
2017 - Young Artist 1st Prize - The National Open Art Competition
2017 - 4th Place - NOA17 World Art Vote
2017 - 2nd Prize, Portraits Category - The Artist's Magazine
PRESs
2023 - "Oases of Pure Feeling: For Abstract Art," Curatorial Affairs
2021 - "How remote learning is affecting art students," i-D Vice
2019 - Aesthetica Magazine, Issue 87, Feb / Mar 2019
2019 - The Yale Layer, Editions X, IX, VIII, VII
2018 - The Yale Layer, Edition VI
2017 - News Shopper Article
2017 - The Artist's Magazine, December
Permanent collections
Yale University