Solo Exhibitions
2021 Land Cell, Hoffman Gallery, Manzanita Oregon
2020 The Parsed Thread, Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2019 Attestation. Jill McVarish Gallery, Astoria, Oregon
Birthmark, Alexander Gallery, Clackamas Community College, Clackamas, OR
2018 Knowledge of Other Places, Abmeyer Wood, Seattle, WA
Democracy, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
Carvings and Cabinets, Astoria Vintage Hardware, Astoria, OR
2016 Commensalism, Froelick Gallery
2015 Sea Level , Polaris Gallery, Manzanita, Oregon
2014 Physical Verse, Froelick Gallery
2013 Connectivity, Abmeyer Wood Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 A Current History of Encroachment, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
2010 The Memory of New Things, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
2009 Mutualism, Melanee Cooper, Chicago, IL
2008 Permutation, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
2007 Vistories, Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Poiesis, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 Neologism, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004 Ardent Cloud, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
The Vasana Text, Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Zenithal, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
2002 The Glyphic Current, Tigerman Himmel: Decorative Art ٠ Design, Chicago, IL
Proximal Content, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
The Ouragan Fuse Project: Giant Paintings by Matthew Dennison, Stumptown, Portland, OR
2001 Afferent Seam, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
The Paintings of Mincing Hewn, The Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 The Mapping of Shaped Hully, Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, OR (color catalogue)
1999 New Paintings, Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, OR
1998 The Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997 Vita, Portland, OR
The Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 Vita, Portland, OR
1995 D.O.T. Northwest Gallery, Portland, OR
1994 D.O.T. Northwest Gallery, Portland, OR
1993 Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Centrum Gallery, Portland, OR
1985 Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
Hundred Waters Gallery, Seattle, WA
1981 Friction Gallery, Portland, OR

Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 301 Gallery Hood River Oregon, Life Imagined
2021 Karin Clarke Gallery , Eugene, Oregon, Animal Collective,
2020 The Secret Gallery , Astoria , Oregon. “ What would Hieronymous Do?” Carvings.
2015 West Coast Biennial, Redding, CA
2015 Abmeyer Wood Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014 Winter Coat, Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR
2012 Refable – an exhibit inspired by Jacob Lawrence, Cullon Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011 Equine, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
2010 Interiors, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 Winter Group Show, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
2007 Winter Group Show, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 Bestiary, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 First Person: a juried group exhibition, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
Introductions, Hiddell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2002 Color, Seattle Art Museum—Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA (three-person)
Sanctuary, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA, Curator: Dena Rigby
2001 31stWillamette Valley Juried Exhibition, Corvallis Arts Center, OR, Juror: Bruce Guenther
Go Figure!- The Human Form in Contemporary Art, Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR
Winter Group Exhibit, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
2000 Good Drawings, Boundary Gallery, London, UK
2000 PDX to Quartersaw: Celebrating Sixteen Years, Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
Winter Group Show, Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, OR
1999 The Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Stick Invitational, L&B Viewing Room, Portland, OR
Art 99, Boundary Gallery, London, UK
The Color of Dreams, Portland State University, OR
1998 Figuration Invitational, L&B Viewing Room, Portland, OR
Horizontal Show, Vita, Portland, OR
1997 The Garden Show, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, Curator: Victoria Beal
Red Show, Vita, Portland, OR
1996 The Tool Show, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, OR, Curator: Paul Arensmeyer
Beach Party Show, Vita, Portland, OR
The Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
1995 Transformation: Farewell to D.O.T., D.O.T. Northwest Gallery, Portland, OR
1993 Oregon College of Arts and Crafts—Centrum Gallery, Portland, OR
1992 Artquake, Portland, OR, Juror: Anne Ayres
1990 Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
1987 Pearl District Art Exhibition, Portland, OR
1985 First Invitational, Multnomah Arts Commission—Burnside Artists Workshop, Portland, OR
1981 Group Show, Friction Gallery, Portland, OR
1979 Urban Framing & Fine Arts, Portland, OR

Periodicals
2021 Eugene Weekly, Eugene , Oregon, Review
2020 Esthetic Lens Magazine, Interview including paintings and drawings, Chicago, Illinois, July.
2019 Phantom Drift Writers Journal. Drawings, Portland, Oregon Issue 9.
2015 Atelierheefte Literary Magazine No. 19.. Bad Kreuznach , Germany (Drawings.)
2009 New American Paintings, juried by Dominic Molon, Assoc.Curator,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,ILVol 85, Pacific Coast Edition
2007 Matthew Dennison, Bonnie Gangelhoff, Southwest Art Magazine, January, p. 105
2005 Neologism, Art Access, September 2005
2004 New American Paintings, curated by Anne Ellegood, Vol. 49, Pacific Coast Edition.
2002 The Corporate Collector, Dan Cook, The Business Journal, Portland, OR, volume 18, #51,
15 February, p 70
2001 A Bold Boost, Julie Emry, Home Ideas, Better Homes and Gardens, Des Moines, IA, Spring /Summer,
pp 6, 40-42, and cover
1998 Seattle Weekly, Seattle, Washington, 17 September
1997 New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA, #13, pp 36-37, and 118, Essay:
Clare Bell, Asst. Curator of Contemporary Art—Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Local, MD, Mike Roberts, Untitled, Portland, OR, March, issue 27, pp N-Q
Imagination is Funny Ellen L. Boyer, Seattle Magazine, Seattle, WA, October, p 16
The Fountainhead, Art Access, Seattle, WA, October, vol. 6, no. 9
1995 Matthew Dennison at D.O.T. Northwest Gallery, Lois Allan, Reflex Magazine, Seattle, WA
uly, vol.9, no. 6, pp 6-7
1994 Plazm, Portland, OR April (illustrations)

Collections
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Dougherty, Petroff & Associates, Portland, OR
EPIQ Systems, Inc. Kansas City, Kansas
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Legacy Emanuel Hospital, Portland, OR
Mohr Davidow Ventures, Seattle, WA
Mueller Design Inc. Los Angeles, CA
Phillips Hogue, Esparto, CA. (Houge Winery label commission)
Smart Forest Ventures, Portland, OR
Stoel Rives LLP, Portland, OR
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Wellington Management Co., Singapore, Tokyo, London
Western Cedar, LLP Seattle, WA
Introductions 2000, Seattle Art Museum—Rental Sales Gallery