NEWS
January 2025: Focus Programme on Matthew Lax at Rotterdam Film Festival, screening six films, including two world premieres
November 2024 : A TIRED DOG IS A GOOD DOG, PART 2 solo exhibition at Human Resources Los Angeles
January 2024: Receipent of Lightning Fund Grant from Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Andy Warhol Foundation
January 2025: Focus Programme on Matthew Lax at Rotterdam Film Festival, screening six films, including two world premieres
November 2024 : A TIRED DOG IS A GOOD DOG, PART 2 solo exhibition at Human Resources Los Angeles
January 2024: Receipent of Lightning Fund Grant from Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Andy Warhol Foundation
mattsamlax [at] gmail [dot] com
Matthew Lax is a filmmaker-artist-writer working between New York and Los Angeles. As one of four quadruplets, Lax often collaborates with non-actors and the “everyday ensembles” found within families, lovers, hobby clubs, athletic teams, and kink communities. Working between documentary and narrative, the resulting films extrapolate from the participants' real-life relationships and Lax’s own autobiography to explore group behaviors, power and queerness. Lax’s writing and organizational work focuses on narratives of production, labor and critical exchange.
Lax’s films and video installations have screened and been exhibited at venues including Viennale (Austria), IHME Contemporary (Helsinki), Rencontres Internationales (Paris/Berlin), MIX New York and MIX Brasil (São Paulo), table (Chicago), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Human Resources LA, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), REDCAT, LA Film Forum, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, The Drawing Center (New York), and CROSSROADS (San Francisco), among others.
Lax received a BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Lax’s organizational projects include those held at Anthology Film Archives (NY), Fellows of Contemporary Art (LA), and Human Resources LA. Lax’s writing has appeared in print and online publications including MARCH Journal, Texte Zur Kunst, Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), BOMB, ArtPractical, and Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CARLA), as well catalog contribution with the Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX) and a limited edition zine with Inga Books (Chicago). Lax is a recipient of a 2024 Lightning Fund Grant from Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and the Andy Warhol Foundation.
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