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Matthew Higgs was born on 1964 in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, is an An english contemporary artist. Discover Matthew Higgs's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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1964

Matthew Higgs (born 1964) is an English artist, curator, writer and publisher.

His contribution to UK contemporary art has included the creation of Imprint 93, a series of artists’ editions featuring the work of artists such as Martin Creed and Jeremy Deller.

1988

He studied Fine Art at Newcastle Polytechnic.(since renamed the University of Northumbria) In 1988, he moved to London and worked for the Grey advertising agency in the media department.

1990

During the 1990s he promoted artists outside the Young British Artists mainstream of the period.

Higgs was born in West Yorkshire.

1993

In 1993, he founded his own press, Imprint 93, publishing a series of artist’s editions and multiples.

1994

In 1994, Higgs exhibited at EASTinternational which was selected by Jan Dibbets and Rudi Fuchs.

The exhibition "Imprint 93/Cabinet Gallery", featuring the work of Martin Creed, was held at Cabinet Gallery in 1994.

1995

"Imprint 93/City Racing" was held at City Racing in 1995.

2000

In 2000, he curated the "British Art Show 5".

This major touring exhibition sought to show that British art embraced a wider range of practices than was indicated by the label "Young British Artists"

His exhibition "Protest and Survive" (curated with Paul Noble) at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 2000 reflected a renewed interest in the art of the 1970s.

2001

In 2001, he described a new aesthetics emerging in British art, pointing to the work of Turner Prize nominees Mike Nelson and Martin Creed.

He described these artists as part of a "parallel generation to the YBAs", and bemoaned that younger artists were "still adhering to the YBA orthodoxy promoted by Charles Saatchi".

Between 2001 and 2004, he was appointed as a curator at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco.

2003

As an artist Higgs had a one-person exhibition, Not Worth Reading, in 2003 at the Wilkinson Gallery in London.

It comprised a wide variety of works, from framed book pages to a wall painted in green emulsion.

Frieze concluded that the work "ultimately relies on his other practices and interests" and "more often than not reveal unexpected nuances that speak as much of the participatory nature of art as of the impossibility of information and interpretation."

His work is held in the collection of the Tate.

2004

As of 2004, Higgs is currently director of White Columns in New York City.

2006

In 2006, he was one of the Turner Prize judges, and was interviewed about the judging process by Sarah Thornton in Seven Days in the Art World.

From 2006 to 2010 Harlem art gallery Triple Candie (a duo of art historians, Shelly Bancroft and Peter Nesbett) created a "non-membership-based honor society" focused on the life and work of Higgs.

This society claimed to be a "living archive" on his life and art career.

The Higgs archive includes writings by and about Higgs, press clippings, reproductions of Higgs' artwork, documentation and ephemera related to exhibitions he has curated, zines, photographs, and other materials.

2007

In 2007 he selected EASTinternational with Marc Camille Chaimowicz.

Higgs is also a member of the New Art Dealers Alliance.

2009

In 2009 Higgs curated an exhibition of Lucas Samaras' work for Greece's national pavillion at the 53rd Venice Biennale.