C.V.

MATTHEW ROLSTON (USA, b. 1955)

Education

• 2006
  Honorary Doctorate, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
• 1989
  Film Program, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
• 1978
  Photography & Imaging, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
• 1976
  Drawing & Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
• 1975
  Drawing & Painting, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
• 1974
  Drawing & Painting, Chouinard Art Institute, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA

Solo Exhibitions

• 2021
  Matthew Rolston, Art People: The Pageant Portraits, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
• 2018
  Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
• 2018
  Hollywood Royale: Out of the School of Los Angeles, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 2017
  Art People: The Pageant Portraits, Ralph Pucci LA, Los Angeles, CA
• 2017
  Hollywood Royale: Out of the School of Los Angeles, Camera Work Contemporary Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• 2016
  Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits, Camera Work Contemporary Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• 2014
  Talking Heads, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1993
  Big Pictures, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 1991
  Big Pictures, Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, NY
• 1991
  Big Pictures, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
• 1991
  Big Pictures, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1987
  Matthew Rolston: Magazine Work, Photographs, Govinda Gallery, Washington, D.C
• 1982
  Matthew Rolston, Portraits, Jennifer Dumas Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1982
  New Hollywood Portraiture, FOTO Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

• 2020
  Hollywood Babylon: A Re-Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (with Mike Kelley, Isabelle Albuquerque, Vaginal Davis, and others), curated by Benjamin Lee Ritchie Handler, Nicodim Gallery, and Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 2020
  Vanity Fair: Hollywood Calling (with Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Collier Schorr, and others), Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
• 2018
  Greater than LA (with Larry Bell, Kelly Lamb, Lauren Halsey, and others), Desert Center, Los Angeles, CA
• 2014
  The Editor’s Eye: The Anthony Mazzola Years (with Slim Aarons, Francesco Scavullo, Bill King, and others), Hearst Gallery, Hearst Tower, New York, NY
• 2014
  Joan Quinn Captured, Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA
• 2013
  Joan, Joan, Joan, The Vi Smith Concourse Gallery at John Wayne Airport, Santa Ana, CA
• 2013
  Through the Lens of the Blues Aesthetic: An Evening of Short Films Selected by Kevin Everson, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• 2013
  The Most Beautiful Woman in the World, SF Shorts: The San Francisco International Festival of Short Films, San Francisco, CA
• 2011
  Mysterious Objects: Portraits of Joan Quinn, Santa Ann College Main Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
• 2011
  Beauty CULTure, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
• 2000
  The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
• 1999
  The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
• 1998
  The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion, Musée de la Mode, Marseilles, France
• 1997
  The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion, The Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
• 1997
  The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion, The Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• 1997
  The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• 1989
  New Nudes, Govinda Gallery, Washington, D.C.
• 1988
  Fashion and Surrealism, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
• 1987
  Fashion and Surrealism, FIT Gallery, New York, NY
• 1987
  New Nudes, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1985
  Working In L.A. (with Herb Ritts and Greg Gorman), G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1984
  Modern Masters (with Jean Pagliuso, Kim Steele, and Bruce Weber), Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX
• 1984
  Modern Masters (with Jean Pagliuso, Kim Steele, and Bruce Weber), Hokin Kauffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Selected Publications

• 2017
  Hollywood Royale: Out of the School of Los Angeles (Kempen, Germany, teNeues)
• 2012
  Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits (New York, USA, Pointed Leaf Press)
• 2008
  beautyLIGHT, Pictures at a Magazine (Kempen, Germany, teNeues)
• 1991
  Big Pictures, A Book of Photographs (New York, USA, Bulfinch Press)

Selected Public Collections

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
National Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.

Selected Talks and Lectures

• 2019
  Studio to Studio: Hollywood’s Enduring Influence in Contemporary Art, Academy Museum Exhibitions Curator Jessica Niebel, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Curator Ryan Linkof, and art critic Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Spring Place, Beverly Hills, CA
• 2019
  The Power of Pleasure: Decoding the Art of Visual Seduction, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
• 2019
  Is Glamour Art? A Conversation, with Autre Magazine founding editors Oliver Kupper and Summer Bowie, Frieze LA, Paramount Studios, Hollywood, CA
• 2018
  In Conversation – Looking Back: Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine, with KCRW’s Frances Anderton, NeueHouse, Hollywood, CA
• 2018
  Art People: A Conversation, with cultural critic Katya Tylevich, Ralph Pucci LA, Los Angeles, CA
• 2018
  Photographic Arts Council of Los Angeles Artist Gallery Talk, Hollywood Royale, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 2018
  In Conversation: Matthew Rolston’s Hollywood Royale, with New Yorker Magazine contributing writer Christina Binkley, SoHo House West Hollywood, CA
• 2018
  Hollywood Royale: Artist Talk with Matthew Rolston, with gallerist Ute Hartjen, The Battery Club, San Francisco, CA
• 2018
  Iris Night Lecture Series: Hollywood Royale, with Vanity Fair contributing editor Matt Tyrnauer, The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
• 2018
  Glamour, Berlin, and Hollywood: Matthew Rolston, with Lee Kaplan, founder of Arcana Books on the Arts, Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, CA
• 2018
  Hollywood Royale by Matthew Rolston, with Lee Kaplan, founder of Arcana Books on the Arts, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
• 2018
  In Conversation: Matthew Rolston’s Hollywood Royale, with Wolfsonian curator Cathy Leff, SoHo Beach House, Miami, FL
• 2018
  In Conversation: Matthew Rolston’s Hollywood Royale, with author and Warhol collaborator Pat Hackett, SoHo House New York, NY
• 2017
  In Conversation: Matthew Rolston’s Hollywood Royale, with cultural critic Nadia Says, SoHo House Berlin, Germany
• 2014
  The Rise of the Fashion Film, with New Yorker Magazine contributing writer Christina Binkley, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
• 2011
  Iris Night Lecture Series: Matthew Rolston on “Beauty CULTure”, with journalist Merle Ginsberg, The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
• 2009
  beautyLIGHT by Matthew Rolston, with journalist Merle Ginsberg, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Selected Affiliations

• Member, Director, Directors Guild of America
• Board Member, FullCircle Alumni Association, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA