Matt Johnson is an artist based in Los Angeles

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Johnson was born in New York

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. He is a sculptor who creates humorous works out of everyday materials. His art has been compared to that of Tom Friedman

Tom Friedman

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 and Charles Ray

Charles Ray

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for its innovative manipulation of objects.

Selected exhibitions

2007

Time Difference: The Frank Cohen Collection, Initial Access Gallery, Wolverhampton

All About Laughter, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Makers and Modelers, Gladstone Gallery, New York

2006

Uncertain States of America - American Art in the 3rd Millennium, Serpentine Gallery, London

Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

2005

Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo

Sutton Lane in Paris, Sutton Lane C/o Galerie Ghisloine Hussenot, Paris

Thing, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2003

Another Sculpture Show, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas

2002

Fondazione Ratti, Como

Four Times One Minus One, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles

External links

• Matt Johnson at the Frieze Art Fair
• Images, biography and texts from the Saatchi Gallery
• Further information from Initial Access