matt lambert is a non-binary, trans, multidisciplinary collaborator and co-conspirator working towards equity, inclusion, and reparation. Their practice is based in polydisciplinamory, entangling making, writing, curating, collaborating, and performing. lambert is currently a PhD candidate in artistic practice in visual, applied and spatial arts at Konstfack University of Arts Craft and Design in Stockholm Sweden. Their research is an investigation around cruising with craft as a companion to explore how its languages and discourses contribute to processes of equity such as decolonization and can challenge ivory tower academic structures through its cracks and margins, the place of the undercommons. Collaborating and kinship making with artists and institutions of a vast array of disciplines has the potential to reassemble or reconfigure the current cultural systems of queerness and body politic while shattering the boundaries academically imposed on craft as a field.
lambert currently is based in Stockholm Sweden and was born in Detroit MI, US where they still maintain a studio. Their work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and Design (New York), Museum of Fine Art, Houston (Houston, Texas, U.S.) Homografiska Museet (Dals Långed, Sweden) The Havgapet Collection, (Sleneset, Norway) and published in texts such as Cultural Affairs: Art Without Borders published by Degruyter. They have exhibited work nationally and internationally including at: Turner Contemporary, (Margate, Uk) ArkDes, and Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, (Stockholm, SWE), Museo de la Ciudad, (Valencia, ES), Museum Angewandte Kunst, (Frankfurt, GER) and Walker Art Center, (Minneapolis, MN, US.) lambert represented the U.S in Triple Parade at HOW Museum, (Shanghai, CN), represented the best of craft in Norway during Salon del Mobile, (Milan, ITLY) and was the invited feature at the Benaki Museum, (Athens, GRC) during Athens Jewelry Week. They have actively contributed writing to Studio Magazine (CA), C Magazine (CA), Metalsmith (US), Klimt02 (ES), The Vessel (NO), Surface Design Journal (US), Art Jewelry Forum (US), Current Obsession (NL) and Garland (AUS) and maintain a running column, Settings and Findings in Lost in Jewellery (ITLY). They were the guest editor of Decorating Dissidence Journal, issue #15, Tools, Use, Mastery (UK).
lambert was a 2019 Research fellow at Australia National University (Canberra, AUS) and a 2020 Curatorial Fellow at Center for Craft (Asheville, NC, U.S.) curating Desire Paths with co-fellow Lauren Kalman. They hold an MA in Critical Craft Theory from Warren Wilson College (Swannanoa, NC, U.S.) and an MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI, U.S.) as well as bachelors level degrees, or minors in: psychology/human sexuality, art history, ceramics, metalsmithing, printmaking, American Cultural Studies, from Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, U.S.) and industry apprenticeships in leather working, and semi-antique rug repair (Michigan, U.S.).
lambert currently is based in Stockholm Sweden and was born in Detroit MI, US where they still maintain a studio. Their work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and Design (New York), Museum of Fine Art, Houston (Houston, Texas, U.S.) Homografiska Museet (Dals Långed, Sweden) The Havgapet Collection, (Sleneset, Norway) and published in texts such as Cultural Affairs: Art Without Borders published by Degruyter. They have exhibited work nationally and internationally including at: Turner Contemporary, (Margate, Uk) ArkDes, and Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, (Stockholm, SWE), Museo de la Ciudad, (Valencia, ES), Museum Angewandte Kunst, (Frankfurt, GER) and Walker Art Center, (Minneapolis, MN, US.) lambert represented the U.S in Triple Parade at HOW Museum, (Shanghai, CN), represented the best of craft in Norway during Salon del Mobile, (Milan, ITLY) and was the invited feature at the Benaki Museum, (Athens, GRC) during Athens Jewelry Week. They have actively contributed writing to Studio Magazine (CA), C Magazine (CA), Metalsmith (US), Klimt02 (ES), The Vessel (NO), Surface Design Journal (US), Art Jewelry Forum (US), Current Obsession (NL) and Garland (AUS) and maintain a running column, Settings and Findings in Lost in Jewellery (ITLY). They were the guest editor of Decorating Dissidence Journal, issue #15, Tools, Use, Mastery (UK).
lambert was a 2019 Research fellow at Australia National University (Canberra, AUS) and a 2020 Curatorial Fellow at Center for Craft (Asheville, NC, U.S.) curating Desire Paths with co-fellow Lauren Kalman. They hold an MA in Critical Craft Theory from Warren Wilson College (Swannanoa, NC, U.S.) and an MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI, U.S.) as well as bachelors level degrees, or minors in: psychology/human sexuality, art history, ceramics, metalsmithing, printmaking, American Cultural Studies, from Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, U.S.) and industry apprenticeships in leather working, and semi-antique rug repair (Michigan, U.S.).
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