Mathias Poledna

Mathias Poledna is a Los Angeles-based artist working in film and other media.

Mathias Poledna’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions, among others, at the Renaissance Society, Chicago; the Secession, Vienna, Austria; Raven Row (w/ Florian Pumhösl), London; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Bonner Kunstverein (w/ Christopher Williams), Bonn, Germany; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; the Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig Vienna, Vienna, Austria. In 2013 Mathias Poledna Poledna represented Austria at the 55th Venice Biennale.

Mathias Poledna participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the 2014 Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia; the 2012 Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea; Modernologies, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (2009) / Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Poland (2010); the 2008 Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan; Index: Conceptualism in California, The Geffen Contemporary, MOCA, Los Angeles; the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Why Images Now?, Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig, Vienna (2006); the 3rd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2004), Kunstwerke Berlin, Germany; the Liverpool Biennial 2004, Tate Liverpool, England; Adorno. The Possibility of the Impossible, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2003).

Museum collections which hold works by the artist include The Art Institute of Chicago; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Tate Modern, London; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; The Museum of Modern Art; New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Generali Foundation / Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria.

The Graduate Art Seminar lecture series is a forum for graduate students, members of the ArtCenter community and the general public to enter into dialog with internationally recognized artists, critics, and art historians. The Seminar—coordinated during the Spring term by faculty member Jack Bankowsky—is a core component of ArtCenter’s Graduate Art program.