EDUCATION

Columbia University, MFA: Visual Art

New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, BA: Philosophy and Art Theory, magna cum laude

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, ARTIST TALKS, RESIDENCIES

2021

Artist Talk with Gordon Wilkins from the Addison Gallery of American Art, Salem MA 

2020

Fountainhead Artist Residency, Talk, Miami FL 

Museum of Art and Design, Artist Talk, New York, NY 

2019

Palazzo Monti, Artist Residency, Brescia, IT

2018

Fashion Institute of Technology, Artist Talk, New York, NY 

Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL

Columbia University, Artist Talk, New York, NY

2016 

New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship, New York, NY 

Visiting Artist, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

2015

Visiting Artist, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 

Onward Fellowship, Project Basho, Philadelphia, PA

2014

Visiting Artist, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Curatorial Fellowship, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Columbia University, New York, NY

Dean’s Travel Grant, Columbia University, New York, NY

2013

New York Times Lens Blog Portfolio Review, New York, NY

2012

Artist Fellowship, a blade of grass, New York, NY

Dean’s Award for Summer Research, Gallatin School, New York University, New York, NY

Award for Excellence in Visual Art, Gallatin Review, New York University, New York, NY

SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 

Colored to Suit, RSK Artworks, Boston, MA 

2020

New Visions, Fotografiska Museum, New York, NY 

2019

Orchid.seasons, Presented by Chashama at Port Authority Bus Terminal, New York, NY 

Dynasty, PS 122, New York, NY 

West Dakota for President, Perfance, Neue House, New York, NY 

Orchid.Spring, Gallerie Borgia, Denver, CO 

Orchid.Summer, The Olympia Project, New York, NY 

2018 

Orchid.winter, Crush Curatorial, New York, NY 

Raw.Popup, Miami, FL 

Vogue Photo Festival, Milan, Italy 

Possible Selves, Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown MA

Orchid.fall, Crush Curatorial, New York, NY 

Orchid, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY

Complicit, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY 

2017 

Complicit, Gallatin Gallery, New York, NY 

AIDS-Service Organisation, Cologne, DE

Discursive Selves, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY 

Re:, Curated by Patrick McNabb, Brooklyn NY 

Spring/Break, Shared Subjects: Matthew Morrocco, Elliott Jerome Brown Jr, and Paul Sepuya,  New York, NY 

VHF, Studio 200, Brooklyn, NY 

2016 

Art + Crush: Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Platform Gallery, Baltimore, MD 

Re:, Brooklyn, NY 

Chinese American Art and Design, Artosino Art Gallery, New York, NY 

Love 2016, Leroy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY 

2015

Medium of Desire, Leslie Lohman Museum, New York, NY

39x17, La Mama Galleria, New York, NY

Floating Point, Judith Charles Gallery, New York, NY

Columbia University Thesis Show, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Queens, NY

Famille, tete, Berlin, Germany

2014

The Portrait Series, Temp Art Space, New York, NY

Personified, National Opera Center, New York, NY

Liminality, Fred Torres Gallery, New York, NY

Picture Berlin International Festival, Lehrterstr. Siebzehn, Berlin, DE

#SHOWFACE, Made on the Lower East Side, New York, NY

Networking Tips for Shy People, Brooklyn, NY

2012

Ripe, Tape Modern, Berlin, DE

ECPATUSA Benefit Auction, New York, NY

Working On It, Temp Art Space, New York, NY

DIRTYWERK, Littlefield, Brooklyn, NY

NYU’s Department of Photography and Imaging at Calumet, Calumet Photo Gallery, New York, NY

Tisch School of the Arts Photography and Imaging BFA Thesis Exhibition, Gulf + Western Gallery, New York, NY

Gallatin Arts Festival, Gallatin Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED COLLECTIONS 

RISD Museum Collection 

Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Andover

Whitney Museum Library 

Guggenheim Museum Library 

SELECTED PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

ART3io, Matthew Morrocco’s debut NFT series is a study of male vulnerability, London, UK

The British Journal of Photography, Matthew Morrocco’s Multi-layered Mirror Portraits, London, UK

BOOOOOOOM, “Mirror Portraits,” by Photographer Matthew Morrocco, Vancouver, CA

Paper Magazine, 20 Artists Staring at Themselves, New York, NY 

British Journal of Photography, Picture This: Intimacy, London, UK 

Vice, Who Are We Without Our Bodies, New York, NY 

Sleek Magazine, Matthew Morrocco Explores Our Delicate Relationship with Nature, Berlin, DE 

Out Magazine, Matthew Morrocco’s Complicit Brings Beauty to Our Queer Elders, Berlin, DE 

Art News, Living Images: Matthew Morrocco on His Intimate Portraits, New York, NY 

Paper Magazine, 15 Intimate Portraits of Older Queer Men, New York, NY 

Dazed, Intimate Portraits Pay Homage to the Gay Community, New York, NY 

New Yorker Magazine, An Artist Photographs his Trysts, New York, NY

Complicit, Matte Magazine, New York, NY

Vogue Italia, Photography Focus on Matthew Morrocco, Milan, Italy

Office Magazine, ORCHID.seasons, New York, NY

W mag, How Photographer Matthew Morrocco Turned His Mirror Portraits into Fine Art, New York, NY

Them, Intimate Queer Portraits, New York, NY 

Hyperallergic, Queering the Body ORCHID.RGB, New York, NY

Vice, Kaleidoscopic Mirror Portraits examine the Vanity of Selfie Culture, New York, NY

Cultured Magazine, Artist Matthew Morrocco Abandons the Nude for his Friends, New York, NY

New Yorker Photobooth, New York, NY

Artsy, How Contemporary Artists are Evolving the Queer Aesthetic, New York, NY 

Art21 Magazine, On Exposure, New York, NY 

Vision Magazine, Arts and Culture, Beijing, CN

Hyperallergic, A Photographer Who Turns Viewers into Voyeurs, New York, NY