Matthew Ritchie (Artist)
Abstract. Ritchie will link early concepts of temporal logic (especially Mayan time in the Long Count), with the limits of contemporary complexity and prediction in his most recent performances and diagram project.
His installations, which integrate painting, wall drawings, light boxes, performance, sculpture, and projections, are investigations of the idea of information explored through science, architecture, history and the dynamics of culture, defined equally by their range and their lyrical visual language. In 2001, Time magazine listed Ritchie as one of 100 innovators for the new millennium, for exploring "the unthinkable or the not-yet-thought." His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions worldwide, including the Whitney Biennial, the Sydney Biennial, the Sao Paulo Biennial, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Seville Biennale, and the Havana Biennale, and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Albright-Knox Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and other institutions worldwide, including a permanent large-scale installation at MIT. In 2012 Ritchie was Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, and in 2013 was Mellon Artist in Residence and Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Visual Arts Program at Columbia University, New York.