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Artist Talk, LSU Artist and Scholars Lecture Series, Baton Rouge, LA
April 12, 2023. 5pm

The Axe Will Survive the Master (solo exhibition), Barnes Ogden Center, LSU 
Mar 22 - May 2, 2023

Object Lesson: On the Influence of Richard Benson (writing contribution), Aperture, NY
Aug 2022

Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
June-July, 2022

‘If We Burn’ (feature), Folk Costumes, Indo-Pacific Air, ed. Urtzi Grau & Guillermo Fernández-Abascal
May 2022

Photo No-Nos, ed. Jason Fulford (writing contribution), Aperture, NY
July 2021

MassArt Faculty Fellowship
April, 2021

Object Lesson (group exhibition), TILT Institute, Philadelphia, PA
Sep 21, 2021 - Jan 08, 2022

States of Change (print sale benefit)
Oct 2020

Contact Sheet 208, General Assembly Exhibition Catalogue
August 2020

General Assembly (solo exhibition), Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Aug 24 to Oct 15, 2020

‘Partial Reveals & Inclusive Revelations in the Post-Truth Simulacracy: The Poetics,’ by Chris Campanioni (review), The Brooklyn Rail
Jul-Aug, 2020

‘Au Caire de la Révolte,’ by  Alessandro Zuffi (review), Libération ÉTÉ 
Aug 25, 2020

The Time is Now (print sale benefit) by Galerie Number 8 and Paper Journal
July 2020

Photographs for Purpose (print sale benefit) for Equal Justice Initiative
June 2020

YES FUTURE (print sale benefit), Études
May 2020

‘Local Photographer Reflects on Hong Kong,’ by Liz Neisloss (tv interview), WGBH Greater Boston 
Jan 30, 2020

‘American Photographer Who Covered Hong Kong Protests Denied Entry into City,’ by Alvin Lum, South China Morning Post
Jan 4, 2020

‘US Photography Professor Who Covered Ongoing Protests Barred from Hong Kong,’ by Kris Cheng, Hong Kong Free Press
Jan 4, 2020

‘Tear Gas on One Street and Civilians Walking on Another,’ by Karen Cheung,  Lau Chi Chung, and Matthew Connors, The California Sunday Magazine 
Dec 1, 2019

Letters to the Editor with Matthew Connors & Curran Hatleberg (workshop), The Humid, Athens, GA
Nov 15-17, 2019

Family Car Poetics (book signing & oyster shucking) with Matthew Connors & Gus Powell, Galerie Ghezelbash, 12 Rue Jacob, Paris
Sunday, Nov 10, 2019. 12pm - 3pm

PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, ed. Sasha Wolf (writing contribution), Aperture, NY
Oct 2019

The Poetics with Lucy Ives (reading and discussion), New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1
Saturday, Sep 21, 2019 at 3pm

The Poetics Book Launch, Image Text Ithaca Table, New York Art Book Fair
Sep 2019

Wake Book Launch, ROMAN NVMERALS Table, New York Art Book Fair
Sep 2019

PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice (writing contribution), ed. Sasha Wolf, Aperture
Oct 2019

‘The Present Age’ (feature), Closing Ceremony, Issue 02
May 2019
 
The Terminal (group exhibition), BANK, Shanghai, China
May 2019

MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
April 2019

‘Witch Hunt’ (feature), NicOtiNe Magazine, Issue 03
Mar 2019

‘Jeff Mermelstein,’ by Matthew Connors (writing contribution), photograph magazine 
Jan/Feb 2019

The Poetics with Lucy Ives and ITI Students (reading and discussion), Printed Matter, NYC
Friday, Nov 30, 2018. 6pm-8pm

‘Matthew Connors examines the realities of North Korea,’ by Ruby Boddington, It’s Nice That
Jul 26, 2018

‘A Hidden Revolution: Inside North Korea,‘ by Giada De Agostinis (interview), Paper Journal
Jun 2018

DEAR DAVE conversation with Sam Contis and Steel Stillman, SVA Theatre, NY
May 21, 2018. 7pm

‘Being: New Photography 2018,’ by Lara Atallah (review), Camera Austria International v142 
Spring 2018

‘MoMA’s Human Focus,’ by Richard Woodward (review), The Wall Street Journal 
Mar 15, 2018

‘What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says,’ by Arthur Lubow (review), The New York Times
Mar 11, 2018

Being: New Photography 2018 (group exhibition), Museum of Modern Art, New York
Mar 18 - Aug 19, 2018

‘DDPPRRKK’ (feature), OSMOS Magazine, Issue 14 
Winter 2018

ITI Symposium, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
June 30, 2017. 4pm-7pm / July 1, 2017. 9:30am-6pm

Artist-in-Residence, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
June 2017

‘Studio Visit – Matthew Connors,’ by Giada De Agostinis (interview), Paper Journal 
May 2, 2017

Artist Talk, Yale School of Art
April 26, 2017. 2pm

The Ordering of Intensities (workshop), Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
Nov 19-20, 2016

‘10 Questions for Matthew Connors,’ by Clara Balaguer and Czar Kristoff (interview), Tunica Magazine
June 2016

‘Cairo’s Crow Black Eye,’ by Brad Feuerhelm (review), American Suburb X 
May 2016

Photography and Ethics (panel discussion), Yale School of Art
Apr 27, 2016. 12pm

‘From Occupy Wall Street to the Arab Spring,’ by John Otis (feature), New York Times Lens Blog
Apr 6, 2016

ICP Infinity Award: Artist’s Book, International Center of Photography, New York
April 2016

‘Book of the Week: A Pick by Matthew Connors,’ (writing), photo-eye blog
March 29, 2016

‘Fire in Cairo,’ by Marco Bohr (review), Photomonitor 
Mar 2016

Fire in Cairo Book Signing, SPBH Table, Los Angeles Art Book Fair
Feb 13, 2016. 5pm

‘A Critical Look at Fire in Cairo,’  by Ronnie Close (review), Mada Masr 
Feb 2016

Unsuspending Disbelief (group exhibition), Logan Center, University of Chicago
Jan 22 - Mar 13, 2016

Paper Movies (group exhibition), Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, CT
Jan 19 - Feb 17, 2016

The Form of Fear: Human Rights and Censorship in the Media (panel discussion), Gray Center Lab, University of Chicago
Monday January 25, 2016. 3:30p

‘Retour à Tahrir,’ by Hélène Sallon (feature), M, Le Magazine du Monde 
Jan 16, 2016

‘Best Books 2015,’ by Gerry Badger, photo-eye blog
Dec 8, 2015

‘Best Books 2015,’ by Aaron Schuman, photo-eye blog
Dec 8, 2015

‘The Best Photography Books of 2015,’ by Sean O’Hagan, The Guardian
Dec 6, 2015

‘Alphabet of the Revolution,’ by Andrianna Campbell and Matthew Connors,  frieze 
Nov-Dec 2015

Looking Askance (group exhibition), GallerySKE, New Delhi, India 
Oct 16 - Nov 10, 2015

‘Books: How Can Photographers Respond to Landscapes of Conflict and Change,’ by Brian Sholis, frieze
Oct 2015

‘Matthew Connors, Fire in Cairo,’ by Max Houghton (review), 1000 Words
Oct 2015

‘Matthew Connors, Fire in Cairo,’ by Olga Yatskevich (review), Collector Daily 
Oct 2, 2015

‘Fire in Cairo: Revisiting the Revolution in Egypt,’ by Paul Moakley, Time Lightbox
Sep 30, 2015

‘Book Review: Fire in Cairo,’ by Adam Bell, photo-eye blog 
Sep 3, 2015

‘Photobook Reviews (W36/2015),’ by Jörg M. Coberg, Conscientious Photo Magazine
Sep 1, 2015

Fire in Cairo is shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award
Sep 2015

Fire in Cairo is shortlisted for the Arles Author Book Award
Sep 2015

‘The Artist as a Lonely Hunter,’ by Andrea Denhoed (review), The New Yorker Photo Booth
Aug 11, 2015

‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,’ by Glen Helfand (review), photograph
Jul 2015

‘Fire in Cairo,’ by Lucy Davies (feature), British Journal of Photography 
Jun 2015

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (group exhibition), Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Jun 4 - Aug 22, 2015

General Assembly is shortlisted for the Kassel FotoBook Festival Award
May 2015 

Politics (group exhibition), Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Opening: Apr 10, 2015. 6-9pm

‘Unsuspending Disbelief: The Subject of Pictures,’ by Janina Ciezadlo, Afterimage
Jan/Feb 2015