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Solo Exhibitions
2024 - Dream Home, Granada Foundation Galleries, HOME, Manchester
2015 - Centrum Aktywności Twórczej, Ustka, Poland
selected Group Exhibitions
2025 - 10 Artists 10 Years, Granada Foundation Galleries, HOME, Manchester
2023 - I don’t know what I want, BUT I want it now!, A.P.T gallery, London
2023 - Hidden doors, P7 gallery, Berlin
2023 - (Un)Defining Queer, Whitworth Art gallery, Manchester
2022 - Matthew Bamber and Ivy Kalungi, Castlefield gallery, Manchester, UK
2022 - Sixty Drawings + Ten, The Whitaker Art Gallery & Museum, Rossendale, UK
2019 - Here </> There Exhibition, SIA and Today Art Museum, Beijing
2016 - New Work, The Manchester Contemporary
2016 - MIXED BAG, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida
2015 - An Arbitrary Exhibition, Manchester
Publications
2024 - (Un)Defining Queer: Queering the Constituent Museum - buy here
2021 - Queer Zine Dictionary produced by The Feminist Library, London - view here
Awards
2021 - Develop Your Creative Practice Award from Arts Council England
Select Reviews/Press/Interviews
2024 - In Conversation with Karen Tam and Matthew Bamber
2024 - “Sexual, Photoshop, Baroque”: Matthew Bamber in Conversation With Alice Wilde - Read here
2023 - Artists Responding To - Dual Perspectives: Matthew Bamber and Dominic James Bilton - read here
2022 - NorthernSoul, Review: Matthew Bamber and Ivy Kalungi, Castlefield gallery - read here
Residencies
2016 - Atlantic Center for the Arts with Josiah McElheny, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2015 - Centrum Aktywności Twórczej, Ustka, Poland
Education
2023 - MFA Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, Awarded Distinction
2019 - MA Fine Art with Distinction, Manchester Metropolitan University, Awarded Distinction
2001 - BA (Hons) Visual Arts & Culture, University of Salford
limited edition print available here
new work/online private viewing - request access via the contact page