Matt Klos

Matt Klos is a recipient of three Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council (2016, 2012 and 2008). His work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions including the Prince Street Gallery in Chelsea, NY in 2011. He was awarded first place in the Bethesda Painting Awards in 2007 and received an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2001. Klos currently teaches drawing and painting full-time at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, MD and has served as a guest lecturer/critic at various institutions including the New York Academy, the Kentucky School of Art, and the University of Missouri. He is a member of the collective Perceptual Painters, www.perceptualpainters.com and Zeuxis, www.zeuxis.us. He resides in Baltimore Maryland with his wife and children.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018       • Blue Spiral Gallery, “Interiors,” Asheville, NC
2017       • Gay Street Gallery, “Vessels,” Washington, VA
2016       • Academy Center of the Arts, “Interiors,” Lynchburg VA
2014       • Manifest Gallery, “A Dozen Years of Interiors,” Cincinnati, OH
                • Cade Center of Fine Arts, Anne Arundel Community College, “Fragments of Fort Howard,”Arnold, MD
2011       • Prince Street Gallery, “Keeping Things, Oil Paintings and Interiors of Accruing American Clutter,” Chelsea, NY
- Winner of the Prince Street Gallery 40th Anniversary Guest Solo Show Competition.
2008       • Nelson Fine Arts Gallery, “Some Days,” Lexington, VA
2007       • Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, “Suburban Spaces,” New Castle, PA
2005       • Oxford Gallery, “Spaces of Intention,” Rochester, NY

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2010 • Alfred and Trafford Klots Chateau Museum, Rochefort-en-Terre, France
2009 • Myung Women’s University and Hai Tai Gallery, “An Art Exchange: Korea/Maryland,” Seoul, Korea

SELECT AWARDS & RECOGNITION
• Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council 2016, 2012, & 2008
• Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC), Business Arts Partnership Purchase Award, Columbus, OH 2002
• The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 2001

COLLECTIONS
• The Doris Patz Collection, University of Maryland University College (UMUC), Adelphi, MD
• Donald & Allison Innes, Charlottesville, VA
• Carol Trawick, Bethesda, MD
• Starwood Capital Group, CT
• First Bank, Columbus, OH

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2007-Present
                • Associate Professor, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD
2017       •Visiting Critic, College of William & Mary
                • Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA
2016       • Visiting Critic, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2014       • Visiting Artist Lecture at Towson University, Towson, MD
2010       • Visiting Artist Lecture at University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
2008       • Visiting Artist Lecture at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE
2004-06 • Instructor of painting at Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH

EDUCATION
2004 • MFA, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2001 • BFA, Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD), Columbus, OH