Regina Haggo reviews how lockdown made us more conscious than ever about physical space.

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Hamilton Spectator covers Matak's "Arrangements" exhibition at Oswalds Gallery.
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Click here to read Regina Haggo of the Hamilton Spectator review of "Arrangements", a drawing Exhibition at Oswald's Gallery, Hamilton, ON.

Interview with Frank Juarez Gallery and Greymatter Gallery.

Interview with Chicago based artist & writer, Stacia Yeapanis.

Cate McQuaid of the Boston Globe named Adam Matak one of Boston's six graduating MFA artists to watch for.

Matak was recently awarded the Boit Award for Independent Graduate Work and the Dana Pond Award in Painting. Works awarded will be on display at the School of the Museum of Fines Arts Award Exhibition through May.

Curated by Adam Matak, "Some Assembly Required" will feature the paintings by MFA candidates Nick Mello, Anna Paul, and Matak, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston from

March 7 - August 16, 2015.

Artist Talk will take place: Saturday, March 14, 12 – 1 PM

New drawings from Matak's "Monuments Series" will be available for sale at the SMFA Art Sale November 20-23, 2014.

Matak's drawings inspired by Canadian currency will be on display at Rotunda Gallery August 2013
Kitchener City Hall
200 King St. W

Matak receives an TAC 2012 Emerging Artist Grant.

Nov 2 -27, 2011 @ Le Gallery
1183 Dundas St. W., Toronto
Matak's new works on paper explore currency as an objectification of value and as a cultural artifact. Executed entirely in BIC pens, the materials call to question the relationaship between the seemingly banal and the beautiful.

Opening reception November 4 7-10pm.
Gallery Hours Wed - Sun 12-6pm

Watch out for Matak's work on TTC buses and streetcars advertising the 2011 Art Toronto, Toronto's International Art Fair.

Matak's work will be represented at the fair by The Beverly Owens Project, booth #1030.

November 2 - 27
Adam Matak's Objects of Value will be held at Toronto's Le Gallery
1183 Dundas St. W., Toronto ON M6J 1X3
416.532.8467

Jul 22 2011 - Sep 10 2011
Opening: Friday, July 22, 2011 - 7:00pm - 11:00pm

(Also featuring Jason Hallows & Rachael Wong)

The show positions several of Matak’s Museum Patrons to view pieces from Hallow’s Benchworks series and Wong’s Red Effect in an exploration of gallery going. Referring to security measures enforced by certain museums and galleries that protect artwork from bodily contact, the title considers institutional systems as regulators and constructors of our viewing habits. Check out more at: ARTSPACE.

Emond Montgomery Publications has included Matak in their new book Art Works. Art Works — the first Canadian visual arts textbook in over 20 years — is a high school art text that focuses on the issues, ideas, and themes that inform the art world today.

Tentatively entitled "Economic Artifacts", large-scale BIC pen drawings due out this fall!

Adrian Hill writes about Matak's Museum Series in his
Graphically Inclined Blog about comics and graphic narrative.

In the Monday, April 4 2011 edition of the National Post, Leah Sandals discusses with Matak his February and April exhibitions.

Essay by curator Laurie Carmount about the Matak exhibition, Museum Series, on March 31-May 14, 2011.

Check out this video from Matak's 2010 show "Acceptable Losses" in Toronto, ON.

The old SPIN Gallery (Twist) on Queen Street West, in Toronto will be housing 5000 square feet of new work by Adam Matak. The Saturday opening will unveil new sculpture, works on paper, and monumental paintings.
Oct 1 - 28
Nuit Blanche Exhibit Oct 2 (from dusk till dawn)

Opening reception Sat, Oct 9, 6-11pm

1100 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON M6J 1H9
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 11am-6pm

New sculptural works The Patrons will be on display in the closed off space of the Beverly Owens Project, Toronto. Works will be see in the gallery window, but the space will not allow you entrance. The show will be on display August 2 - 16, 2010, a teaser for the 5000 square foot gallery show taking place in October.

A virtual look at the exhibition "The Lookers" at The Beverly Owens Project in Toronto.
In this short video,Chris Healey & Adam Matak talk talk social commentary, famous paintings and process regarding Matak's latest work.

Critics and viewers come in for a drubbing in an exhibition that defends the artist and his tools
Gary Michael Dault Reviews Matak's Latest works in the Globe & Mail

On display March 31-April 18, 2010

Opening reception: Saturday, April 10, 2010, 2:00pm - 5:00pm

The Beverly Owens Project 1140 Queen St West, Toronto
(steps from the Drake Hotel)

New sculptural works and works on canvas by Adam Matak, continuing his exploration into problems with human reception.
Also on display, new mixed media works by Beverly Owens.

Opening Reception Saturday April 10, 2010 2-5 PM

Check out Matak's Museum Patron, "Looking Away & Seeing Too Much" at Gallery Lambton.

The opening reception will be held on First Friday, March 5, 2010 starting at 6:00 p.m., award presentation will be held April 9, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. LOOK 2010 will close on Sunday, May 2 at 4:00p.m.

Gallery Lambton
150 N. Christina Street
Sarnia, ON

Open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Thursdays 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Closed Mondays
First Fridays 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
First Sundays 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Signs of Culture @ Artcite Inc, Windsor Ontario.

May 8 - June 13 2009

Opening Friday, May 8 at 7:30
Also appearing, will be paintings by Phil Delisle.

GARY MICHAEL DAULT
garymdault@sympatico.ca
May 3, 2008

ADAM MATAK
AT WALNUT GALLERY
$200-$1,800. Until May 8.
966 Queen St. W., Toronto; 647-341-4244

Adam Matak is a gifted young artist whose exhibition, Secondary Sources, at the new Walnut Gallery, wittily addresses what Matak sees as the "social space of the gallery." This suite of clever and skillfully managed pastiche-paintings ("one part sociology and one part voyeurism"), manages to offer trenchant and amusing commentary on ideas about high art as commodity, as reproducible artifact, as assumptions about the picture-frame contention (desire as a marketable package) and, most importantly, as an insightful catalogue charting the ways we do or do not pay much attention to what is hanging there on the walls before us. Take note of Matak's rapid and wonderful graffiti-marker drawings of paintings viewed at an angle (Surrogate Landscapes), made on sheets of aluminum.