Curriculum Vitae
Matthew Warren Lee
EDUCATION
2014 MFA, Painting and Drawing, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
2007 BFA, Painting and Drawing, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
SOLO EXHIBITONS
2026 Farther Afield, Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, Wisconsin
2024 Carter County Museum, Ekalaka, Montana
2022 The Book of Miracles, James Watrous Gallery, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Madison, Wisconsin
2018 To Whom do we Owe Utopia?, RedLine, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2014 The Empire of Debris, INOVA, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Constant Practice, Brooks Stevens Gallery, MIAD, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2023 Here and Now, Brooks Stevens Gallery, MIAD, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2023 Cudahy Art Coalition Annual Show, Tavern Club, Chicago, Illinois
2022 Continuum 2022: Sightlines 42, INOVA, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2021 Magnitude 7, Manifest Creative Research and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
2019 From One to Another, Gallery 224, Port Washington, Wisconsin
2017 The Course of Empire, Usable Space, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2017 Drawing Attention, Gallery 224, Port Washington, Wisconsin
2016 Forward: A Survey of Wisconsin Art, Charles Allis Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2016 National Juried Exhibition, First Street Gallery, New York, New York
2016 Bachman’s Warbler, Gallery 224, Port Washington, Wisconsin
2015 A Tale of Two Residencies, RedLine, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2015 Scientificous, Manifest Creative Research and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
2015 Distressed Structures – The Weathering of Ecology, Jazz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2014 Meet the Residents, Gallery 224, Port Washington, Wisconsin
2014 Hidden River, Sharon Lynn Wilson Center for the Arts, Brookfield, Wisconsin
2014 Master Pieces, Manifest Creative Research and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
2014 Group Show, Elaine Erickson Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2010 Watercolors and Drawings, Amundsen-Scott Research Station, Antarctica
AWARDS
2025 RuthArts + MIAD Grant Recipient
2024 RuthArts + MIAD Inaugural Grant Recipient
2019 Finalist Mary L. Nohl Fellowships for Individual Artists, Greater Milwaukee Foundation
2016 Mary L. Nohl Suitcase Grant, Greater Milwaukee Foundation
2016 Best in Show Viewers Choice Award, Forward: A Survey of Wisconsin Art, Charles Allis Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2010 United States Medal of Antarctic Service, United States Congress
PUBLICATIONS
2022 People and Ideas, Wisconsin Academy of Science Arts and Letters, Spring 2022
2017 International Painting Annual 7, Manifest, Fall 2017
2016 International Painting Annual 6, Manifest, Fall 2016
2016 Manifest Exhibition Annual, January 2016
2015 International Painting Annual 5, Manifest, Fall 2015
2015 Manifest Exhibition Annual, January 2015
2013 New American Paintings 107, Midwest Edition, August/September 2013
COLLECTIONS
2024 Carter County Museum, Ekalaka, Montana
2023 Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
2019-2023 Carthage Institute of Paleontology, Kenosha Public Museums
2010 United States Antarctic Program, Amundsen-Scott Research Station, Geographic South Pole, Antarctica
CURATOR
2015 The World Retrieved: Contemporary Landscapes, Gallery 224, Port Washington, Wisconsin
RESIDENCIES
2014-2015 Port Art Partners Artist in Residence Program, Port Washington, Wisconsin, September 2014 – May 2015