MATTHEW KIRK
Matthew Kirk (b. 1978, Ganado, Arizona) grew up in Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan and lives and works in New York. Of Diné (Navajo) and European descent, Kirk creates mixed-media works that bring together Diné textile motifs, urban materials, and a personal pictorial language of elemental signs.
Kirk has had solo exhibitions at de boer, Los Angeles; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton; FIERMAN, New York; Adams and Ollman, Portland; Makasiini Contemporary, Turku; and Louis B. James Gallery, New York. Group exhibitions include presentations at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College; Sundaram Tagore, New York; Brooklyn Museum; Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz; Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis; de boer, Antwerp; and Southampton Arts Center.
His work is included in the collections of the Eiteljorg Museum, Everson Museum, The Forge Collection, Meta, TD Bank, and Bank of America. His work has been featured in The New York Times, ARTnews, and The Wall Street Journal. In 2019, he received the Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship for Contemporary Native American Art.
Selected Works
Matthew Kirk
Tooth Cutter, 2025
acrylic and mixed media on panel
51½ x 78 in. / 130.81 x 198.12 cm
Matthew Kirk
Start To Deserve, 2025
acrylic and mixed media on panel
30 x 24 in. / 76.2 x 60.9 cm
Matthew Kirk
My Hands Are Never Cold, 2025
acrylic and mixed media on panel
30 x 24 in. / 76.2 x 60.9 cm
Matthew Kirk
A Day of Stillness, 2025
acrylic and mixed media on panel
42 x 42 in. / 107 x 107 cm
Matthew Kirk
Let's Just Be Strangers, 2025
acrylic and mixed media on panel
48 x 36 in. / 121.92 x 91.44 cm
Matthew Kirk
We Know Where There's Music, 2025
acrylic and mixed media on panel
48 x 36 in. / 121.92 x 91.44 cm
Matthew Kirk
Around the World On a Good Day, 2025
found objects and mixed media
82 x 43 x 12.5 in. / 208.28 x 109.22 x 31.75 cm
EXHIBITIONS
Matthew Kirk: In a Time of Darkness, This Is Wonderful News
September 13 – November 1, 2025
de boer | Los Angeles
