1. Matthew Joseph Williams Drutt was born on December 8,1962 and is an American curator and writer who specializes in modern and contemporary art and design.
13 Facts About Matthew Drutt
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Matthew Drutt is currently working with the Lee Ufan Foundation in Arles on an exhibition of non-objective art for Fall 2024.
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Matthew Drutt has worked more recently with the Eckbo Foundation in Oslo on the first major monograph of Thorwald Hellesen published in English and Norwegian in by Arnoldsche Art Publishers.
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Matthew Drutt is currently developing several other titles with the publisher.
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Matthew Drutt continues to serve as an Advisory Curator to the Hermitage Museum Foundation Israel.
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Matthew Drutt was Chief Curator of The Menil Collection in Houston from 2001 to 2006, where he organized exhibitions of Robert Gober, Ellsworth Kelly, Olafur Eliasson, Donald Judd, Anna Gaskell, and Vik Muniz, as well as collection-based projects.
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In 1999, Matthew Drutt organized the exhibit Bill Fontana: Acoustical Visions of Venice for the 48th Venice Biennale in cooperation with The Bohen Foundation, and in 2011 he returned to curate Anton Ginzburg: At The Back of the North Wind for the 54th Venice Biennale.
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Matthew Drutt has served as a visiting professor at Columbia University in both the Graduate School of the Arts and the Avery School of Architecture and at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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Matthew Drutt was chair of the Arts Committee for LongHouse Reserve from 2018 - 2020 and he was a founding member of the El Lissitzky Foundation in Eindhoven from 2013 to 2019.
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Matthew Drutt was on the advisory board of the Hermitage Museum Foundation from 2012 to 2015 and The Fabric Workshop and Museum's artist advisory board since 2010.
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Matthew Drutt was a chair for Luminaria: Arts Night in San Antonio and the American Association of Museum Directors.
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Matthew Drutt had worked with both Public Art San Antonio and Etant donnes: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art.
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Matthew Drutt wrote his first exhibition catalog in 1992, for Albert Paley: Sculptural Adornment at the Renwick Gallery, an exhibit by the Smithsonian Institution.