RESUME and Background

Matthew Dehaemers received his BFA from Creighton University and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin. His national public art commissions include the recent work Confluence of Place and Time for Casper, Wyoming as well as Patterns of Energy commissioned by the Missouri Department of Transportation. Matt is embarking on a new body of personal work inaugurated with the sculptural work Descendants. Dehaemers has also continued to produce unique issue focused installations for various art center such as Project Reclamation for the Leedy-Voulkos Arts Center,  Watered Down for the Creighton University Lied Center and (402)Disconnect/Reconnect for the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art among others.  He has been awarded the Kansas Arts Commission Fellowship Award, the Joan Mitchell Fellowship, four Public Art Network Recognitions, an NAACP Community Contribution Award as well as numerous residencies.

 
EDUCATION

2002   M.F.A. University of Wisconsin
1996   B.F.A. Creighton University (cum laude)

COMMISSIONS/ART EXHIBITIONS

2012
Group Exhibition • Residents 2012: Studios Inc.  •  Kansas City, MO
Public Finalist • Transfer Station Recycle Center  •  Seattle, WA
Public Installation • Bank of America Plaza Buildings  •  Charlotte, NC
Public Art Commission • Housing the Art of Possibilities •  Casper, WY
Public Art Finalist • Kansas City Power and Light Substation  •  Kansas City, MO
Public Art Commission • Rock Port Welcome Center--MODOT •  Joplin, MO 

2011
Public Art Finalist • Firefighters Memorial-KCMO 1% for Art  •  Kansas City, MO
Public Art Finalist • Nebraska 1% for Public Art-UNL project  •  Lincoln, NE
Public Art Commission • Johnson County Art Commission  •  Olathe, KS 
Project Founder • Project Reclamation, Benefit for Joplin/Leedy-Voulkos Art Center • Kansas City, MO

2010
Public Art Finalist • New Wishard Hospital  •  Indianapolis, IN
Public Art Commission • KCATA  •  Kansas City, MO
Art Installation • Creighton University  •  Omaha, NE
Art Commission • Regis Jesuit High School •  Aurora, CO

2009
Public Art Commission Finalist • Jackson South Hospital  • Miami, FL--2 projects
Public Art Commission Finalist (collaboration) • Wayne State College  • Wayne, NE  
Public Art Commission Finalist • Speer Blvd.  •  Denver, CO 
Public Art Commission Finalist • Eldorado Fire Station  •  Scottsdale, AZ  
Public Art Commission Finalist • Petaluma Fire Station  •  Petaluma, CA  
Public Art Commission Finalist • Johnson County Art Commission  •  Olathe, KS  
Public Art Commission • I-44 Welcome Center--MODOT •  Joplin, MO 
Art Installation • Bemis Center for Contemporary Art • Omaha, NE
Public Art Commission Semi-Finalist • HUX Cancer Center  •  Terre Haute, IN  

2008
Public Art Commission • Santa Clarita Fire Station •  LA County, CA 
Public Art Commission • New Haven Nine Squares Project •  New Haven, CT 
Public Art Installation • Evanston Art Center • Evanston, IL 
1% for Art Public Art Commission • Kansas City, MO Municipal Art Commission 

2007
Mural Commission • Rockhurst Preparatory School • Kansas City, MO
Installation • Delaware Center for Contemporary Art • Wilmington, DE
Funded by National Endowment of the Arts, Puffin Foundation, Astra-Zeneca
Outdoor Installation • The Art Complex• Duxbury, MA
Group Exihibition • Leedy-Voulkos Gallery • Kansas City, MO

2006
Vermont Studio Center Residency Full-Fellowship • Joan Mitchell Foundation
Outdoor Art Installation • Kimmel-Harding Arts Center • Nebraska City, NE
Public Art Commission Finalist • H & R Block Headquarters • Kansas City, MO  
Commission • Centurions-Kansas City Chamber of Commerce • Kansas City, MO
Smoky Hill River Festival Art Commission • Salina Arts & Humanities • Salina, KS  

2005
Public Art  Commission Finalist • Broward County Fire Stations • Ft. Lauderdale, FL 
Public Art Finalist • Leawood Arts Council • Leawood, KS   
Barbershop Installation • Barbershop Gallery • Kansas City, MO
Temporary Sculpture Commission • Leawood City Hall • Leawood, KS
Flight 93 International Memorial Design Competition Entry • Somerset, PA
Alzheimer’s Awareness sculpture• Alzheimer Association • traveling sculpture
        --Pittsburg State- Pittsburg,KS /University of Kansas-Lawrence, KS/CMSU-Warrensburg, MO
Bartle Hall Public Art Semi-Finalist • Municipal Arts Commission • Kansas City, MO
Smoky Hill River Festival Art Commission • Salina Arts & Humanities • Salina, KS

2004
Joan Mitchell Fellowship Winner Group Exhibit • Cue Gallery • Chelsea, NY
Two Sides of the Same Track • Outdoor video sculpture • Kansas City, MO
Bridge Project Public Art Finalist • Municipal Arts Commission • Kansas City, MO 
Memory Exhibition Commission • Salina Arts Center • Kansas City, MO  
Greater Midwest International Exhibition • CMSU Art Center • Warrensburg, MO
Work Selected by Douglass Freed, Director of the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art Sedalia, MO

2003
Juried Exhibition • Kansas City Artist Coalition • Kansas City, MO
Work selected by Jan Schall, curator of contemporary art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Midwest Regional Art Exhibition • Kansas City Artist Coalition • Kansas City, MO
Best in Show Award • Juried by Debra Singer curator of the Whitney Museum, NY
World Trade Center Memorial Competition • memorial design submission
Avenue of the Arts • public art installation • Kansas City, MO Budget 
Manna • artist in resident exhibition • St. Vincent College • Latrobe, PA

2002
Arts Incubator group exhibition • Sept/Oct. •Kansas City, MO
Infrastructure Reexamined III • Installation • Beaver Dam, WI
M.F.A. Exhibition • Dialogues • University of Wisconsin • Madison, WI
156 Miles to Madison Group exhibition • Wood Street Gallery • Chicago, IL
The Otherwise Gallery group exhibition • East Lansing, MI

2001
Structure, Shelter, Space • Installation • Baraboo, WI
Infrastructure Reexamined I & II • Installation • Madison & Argyle, WI
Students for Students in the Visual Arts • Madison, WI

2000
Sculpture Commission • Argyle High School • Argyle, WI  

1996
Art Gallery Exhibition • Northwest University • Xian, China 
B.F.A. Exhibition • Corpum:Transfigurations • Creighton University • Omaha, NE

GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS/HONORS 

2012
Awarded Professional Artist Studio Residency • Studios Inc. • Kansas City, MO 

2009
2009 Year in Review  • Public Art Network Recognition
“Nereid Beckon”-an outdoor public art installation reflecting the history of Grosse Pointe lighthouse, Lake Michigan and the community of people living there
   --selected as one of the top innovative public art pieces of 2008 in the U.S. by Janet Echelman and Mildred Howard.

2007
NAACP Community Contribution Award • Johnson County, Kansas Chapter
2007 Year in Review  • Public Art Network Recognition
“The Will Brown Project”-an outdoor public project reflecting on the horrific lynching of William Brown
   --selected as one of the top innovative public art pieces of 2006 in the U.S. by Larry Kirkland and Miwon Kwon.

2006
1% for Art Public Art Commission • Kansas City, MO Municipal Art Commission 
2006 Year in Review  • Public Art Network Recognition
“Trifecta of Oakdale”-a series of large scale pixilated floating murals
   --selected as one of the top innovative public art pieces of 2005 in the U.S. by Mary Miss and Robert Rindler.

2005
2005 Year in Review  • Public Art Network Recognition
“Epicenter” and “25 road signs into Portage des Sioux” two public art installations for the Lewis and Clark national bicentennial
   --both selected as one of the top innovative public art pieces of 2004 in the U.S. by Donald Lipski and Sherry Wagner.

2004
2004 Year in Review  • Public Art Network Recognition
“Point of Departure” public art installation
   --selected as one of the top 39 innovative public art pieces of 2003 in the U.S. by Artist Ellen Driscoll and Sculpture Magazine Editor Glen Harper.
2004 Kansas Arts Commission Fellowship Award for 3-D media • Topeka, KS
Salina Arts Center Commission for Memory Exhibition • Salina, KS

2003
Avenue of the Arts Art Commission Public Art Commission • Kansas City, MO
River Market Midwest Regional Exhibition Best in Show Award • Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Artist Coalition Gallery: Awarded best in show by Debra Singer curator of the Whitney Museum, New York City and Whitney Biennial 2004.

2002
The Joan Mitchell Fellowship • New York, NY
        One of eight nationwide M.F.A. graduates awarded this annual fellowship
The Temkin Award • University of Wisconsin • Madison, WI

2001
International Sculpture Center Award • honorable mention • Hamilton, NJ
Dedaulus Fellowship Finalist • New York, NY
Kemper Knapp Foundation Grant Award • University of Wisconsin • Madison, WI
Developed a mentoring outreach project between graduate students and high school students. 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2007
Creative Capital Foundation Workshop • Kansas City, MO

2005 to 2007
Art Coordinator • Memories in the Making-Alzheimer’s Assoc. • Kansas City Metro
  Coordinate/Oversee art facilitators and the program taking place at over 20+ metro area sites

2004
Artist-in-Residence • Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration • St. Louis, MO
       Co-funded by the National Endowment of the Arts, Missouri Arts Council, New England Foundation for the Arts, National Assembly for State Art Organizations.

2003
Studio 150 • Kansas City Metropolitan Arts Council • Kansas City, MO
Artist-in-Residence • St. Vincent College • Latrobe, PA
       Teaching an undergraduate course and develop solo exhibition

2001-2
Teaching Assistantship • University of Wisconsin • Madison, WI
Founder • Students for Students in the Visual Arts • Madison, WI
Designed and executed an original, mentoring, outreach project between graduate students and high school students.  It is now an annual outreach program

2001
Truman Lowe’s Assistant • Madison, WI
Assistant to the contemporary Native American artist Truman Lowe fabricating his exhibition entitled, Remembrance, Madison Arts Center

2000-1
Sculpture Project Assistantship • University of Wisconsin • Madison, WI

1999
Americorps VISTA/Kansas City • Youth Friends • Kansas City, KS
Storytellers Inc. Community Arts Organization • Kansas City, KS
Assist in facilitating inner city youth in a collaborative book project.
The Boys and Girls Club of Kansas City • Kansas City, KS & Kansas City, MO
Initiated art programs serving inner city youth
Nelson Atkins Museum of Fine Art Foundation Arts Program • Kansas City, MO

1997-8
Herff-Jones • Mission, KS

1996-7
Americorp & Mercy Corp. • St. Michael High School • St. Michael, AZ

VISITING ARTIST / RESIDENCY/ART JUROR 

2009
JCCC-Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art • Visiting Artist • Overland Park, KS  

2008
University of Alabama • Visiting Artist • Tuscaloosa, AL
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art • Artist Speaker • Kansas City, MO
Citizen Adivsory Panel / Visual Arts Grants • Missouri Arts Council • St. Louis, MO
Emporia State University • Visiting Artist • Emporia, KS

2007
Citizen Adivsory Panel / Visual Arts Grants • Missouri Arts Council • St. Louis, MO
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art• Residency • Wilmington, DE
University of Delaware • Visiting • Newark, DE
The Art Complex • Residency • Duxbury, MA

2006
The Bemis Center • Residency • Omaha, NE
Vermont Studio Center• Residency • Johnston, VT
Miami University of Ohio• Visiting Artist • Dayton, OH
Kimmel-Harding Arts Center • Residency • Nebraska City, NE
Kansas City Art Institute • Professional Practices • Kansas City, MO
State of Kansas Art Fellowships• Selection Committee Juror • Topeka, KS

2005
Emporia State University • Visiting Artist • Emporia, KS
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art • Artist Speaker • Kansas City, MO

2004
Missouri State Fair • Residency • Sedalia, MO
Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration • Residency • St. Louis, MO
Salina Art Center • Residency • Salina, KS

2003
Kansas City Art Institute • Visiting Artist • Kansas City, MO
St. Vincent College Department of Fine Arts • Residency • Latrobe, PA

2001
Creighton University Department of Fine Arts • Visiting Artist • Omaha, NE