Matthew Angelo Harrison

For his first solo exhibition at a European institution, Detroit-born sculptor Matthew Angelo Harrison (* 1989) creates a monumental installation of 3-D machine technologies, African artifacts, and workers’ labor union paraphernalia to merge the cruel history of colonialism with the formalist legacy of Minimalism.

The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Martin Hatebur, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris and the Manizeh and Danny Rimer Collection, with additional support from the Rennie Collection, Vancouver and from Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese. With special thanks to Jessica Silverman, San Francisco.

Accompanying the exhibition, the artist’s first monograph will be co-published by Kunsthalle Basel and MIT List Visual Arts Center with MIT Press in Fall 2021. The richly illustrated catalog includes a conversation between Taylor Renee Aldridge, DeForrest Brown Jr., and Matthew Angelo Harrison, as well as newly commissioned contributions by Natalie Bell, Jessica Bell Brown, and Elena Filipovic.