Education
2020-Ongoing
-Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, PhD in artistic practice in visual, applied and spatial arts
2018–2020
- Warren Wilson College, MA, Critical Craft Theory.
2012–2014
- Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA Metalsmithing, electives in Fiber and Sculpture.
2008–2012
- Wayne State University,
-Bachelor of Fine Art, summa cum laude in metals, ceramics & printmaking, co-major in university honors,
minor in art history.
- Bachelor of Art in psychology, cum laude with departmental honors, co-major in university honors with a minor in American studies.
2005–2008
- Henry Ford Community College, Associates degree in Liberal Arts, Cum Laude, Phi Theta Kappa with honors.
Additional Education
- Trained in leather working
- Trained in antique & semi-antique rug restoration
Residencies & Fellowships
2020
- Konstverket Production Residency for SPIT in collaboration with Carl Olof Berg, Stockholm, Sweden 2019-2020
- Curatorial Fellow, Center for Craft, Asheville, North Carolina, US
-Visiting Researcher, Australia National University, Canberra, Australia
-Visiting artist and graduate mentor, Columbus College of Art, Columbus, OH
2018
-Adornment and Gender resident, Praksis & Norwegian Craft, Oslo Norway
2017
- Re-invite IASPIS invited international Resident, Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s programme for visual artists and
designers. Stockholm, Sweden
2016–2017
- IASPIS invited international Resident, Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s programme for visual artists and designers. Stockholm, Sweden
Select Grants, Awards, and Honors
2020
-Konstnärsnämnd (Swedish Art’s Committee) Project Grant for SPIT invited by Carl Olof Berg
2019
-Support for collaboration with Maret Anne Sara from Sami daiddariid ja girjecalliid buhtdadusfoanda
2018
-Winner of the JAC (Global Fashion Jewelry and Accessories Council) award 2017 "Top 100 Designers"
2017
- Next Generation Award, Surface Design Association
2014
- Merit Scholarship Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2013
- Merit Scholarship Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2012
- Heart and Soul Award, Michigan Campus Compact, Presented in Lansing, MI
- James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History Travel Funding to SNAG in Phoenix, AZ, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- Office of Undergraduate Research Travel Funding to SNAG in Phoenix, AZ, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- Harriet Kanter Award for Student Development, Wayne State University, Detroit
Solo Exhibitions
2022
- SPIT, in collaboration with Carl Olof Berg, with Jennifer Drotz Ruhn (images) Bernt Karsten Sannerud (sound), Phia
Hokkanen (garments), Livrustkammaren Swedish Royal Armoury Museum), Stockholm, Sweden
- Lay Down. Your Weapons: Possible Living Rooms One Fathom Long, a not so solo show,
-Detroit Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden
-Groenbechs Gaard, Bornholm, Denmark
2019
- CAKE, collaboration with Edward Cabral, as part of GIBCA Extended, Gallery Four, Gothenburg Sweden
2018
- Featured artist during Athens Jewelry Week, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
- Fun&Games The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
-Collecting limbs from yesterdays car crash, Flophouse, Detroit, MI
2017
-A(r)mor, ATTA Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2016
- pickaxe, Platina Gallery Stockholm Sweden
2015
- chimera, Platina Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Group Exhibitions
2023
-Flowers in the Crafts and Applied Arts, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany
-Extended Limb, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI, U.S.
-SELF, Erika Diamond & matt lambert, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S
-SCHMUCK,
-Handwerk & Design, Munich Germany
-Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporanèa, Valencia, Spain
-Restrung: Contemporary Beadsmiths, Parachute Gallery, Tampa, Florida, U.S.
2022
-The Hands That Unravel The Sweater, Norske Kunsthåndverkeres Temautstilling, Svolvær, Norway
-Periferi PINK, Kunst I Havgapet, Sleneset, Norway
-Animal, Vegetable, Mineral,
-Gallerie Noel, Montreal, Canada
-Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada
-Queerphoria, NYC Jewelry Week, online
-Tag You’re It!, The Jewelry Library in partner with Gallery Loupe, New York, NY, U.S.
2021
-KORU7, South Karelia Museum, Lappeenranta Finland
-The Body Layer, Craft ACT Craft & Design Centre, Canberra, Australia
-Masculinity, Bread & Circus Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Unraveled, Restructured, Revealed, where contemporary art and diverse perspectives intersect. Curator: Tyanna Bui,
Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI
-Behind the corner opens the jojk of the wind, Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm Sweden
2020
-Kiff Slemmons/ Tag, You’re It!, Ephinay Center For the Arts, Chicago, IL, U.S.
-10th Anniversary Exhibition, ATTA Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
-One World, Gallery Loupe, Gallery Loupe, Montclair, NJ
2019
- HOUSE OF NORWAY, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
- Double Sided Sticky Tape, A Queer Expression, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
- Pattern Play, New York Jewelry Week, E.R. Butler and Co. New York, NY
- Purpose/Process/Paper, The Paper Studio of Kiff Slemmons, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, US
- Sami, Her Majesty Queen Sonjas Royal Stable Gallery, Oslo, Norway
- Screening of Skirtpower, Athens Jewlery Week, Athens, Greece
- Norwegian Presence, collaboration with Maret Anne Sara, Salon del Mobile, Milan Italy
- Pried, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts
-Everyone Says Hello, featured collaboration with Maret Anne Sara, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway
2018
-Triple Parade Jewelery Biannual, representing North America, HOW Museum, Shanghai China
- Gender Norms. Kent State University Downtown Gallery, Kent, Ohio
- LGBTQ+ Juried Exhibition, Akron Soul-Train, Hive Gallery, Akron, Ohio
- Echo, with Suzanne Beautyman, Nanna Grønborg, Mette Saabye and Josefine Rønsholt Smith, Munich Germany
-ABC , Museo de la Ciudad, Valencia Spain
2017
- Head Gear, Kate Clements, Arielle DePinto, and Matt Lambert, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas.
-Standard Form, ArkDes national center for architecture and design, Stockholm Sweden
- S.M.A.K, with Sofia Bjorkman, Sofia Björkman, Agnieszka Knap, Carlos Silva and Karin Roy Andersson, InGallery, Barcelona, Spain
- Omformulerte Forekomster, Curated by Kjersti Solbakken, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway
-EDIT, with Sofia Björkman, Adam Grinovich & Annika Pettersson collaboration with Pär Ålander, Thomas Mann gallery, New Orleans LA
- Industry Made, Society for North American Goldsmiths Conference, New Orleans, LA
-"Laurels" Collect New York, Presented by Gallery Loupe, New York, NY
-The Body Ecstatic, Steven Gordon Holman, Matt Lambert & Zachary Lechtenberg, Gallery Loupe, Montclair, NJ
- Masked, curated by Lauren Kalman, Holding House, Detroit, MI
2016
- Skin: The Human Fabric, Detroit Museum of Healing, Detroit, MI
- Leder, Galerie Handwork, Munich Germany
- Featured artists at “Unexpected,” Craft Council of British Columbia Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- Forget Them, Brooklyn Metal Works, New York, NY
2015
- Edition 15, Simone De Soussa Gallery, Detroit MI
- The Closer, with Josephine Ronsholt Smith, Ninna York and Therese Morch-Jorgensen, York + Smith, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Matters of Material, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
- EDIT@editbar with Sofia Björkman, Adam Grinovich & Annika Pettersson, Editbar, Boston, MA
- Embellish, Metalwerx, Waltham, MA
- Collective Design Fair, Gallery Loupe, New York, NY
- Baggage, Tea and Coffee, (Part II) Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- The Grass is Always Greener, Overseas, Platforma & Platina Gallery
Neue Messe, Munich, Germany
Platina Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
- Bijoux 2015!, Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
2014
- Marzee Graduate Show, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Paddle 8 Auction LGBT to support Fire Island Residency,
- Resolutely Ambiguous (Juried Exhibition), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
- Baggage, Tea and Coffee, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2013
- Juried Exhibition, Hangzhou University, China
- Zeitgeist, Queer Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
- Above The Bar, Start Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Materials Hard & Soft (catalogue), Greater Denton Arts Center, Meadows Gallery, Denton, TX
2012
- Society for North American Goldsmiths Exhibition in Motion: Pomp and Swagger, Phoenix, AZ
- Clay at Wayne State (A Multi-Generational View), Ellen Kayrod Gallery, Detroit MI
Permanent installations
2010
- It Takes a Village, Children’s Hospital of Detroit, Detroit, MI
2006
- Character Café Mural (collaboration), Starbucks Coffee, Dearborn, MI
Curated & Juried Exhibitions
2023
-Juror, We Are Here, Metal Museum, Memphis TN
-Juror with curator Alpesh Kantilal Patel, Urban Glass, New York City, NY
2021
-Desire Paths, co-curated with Lauren Kalman, Center for Craft Asheville
2019
- Co-Chair with Louise Perrone & Celina Zisman, AURUM, Exhibition in Motion, Society for North American Goldsmiths conference,
Chicago, Il
2018
- Co-Chair with Louise Perrone, Objects of Protection, Exhibition in Motion, Society for North American Goldsmiths conference,
Portland, OR
2017
- Co-Chair with Louise Perrone, Unmasked, Exhibition in Motion, Society for North American Goldsmiths conference,
New Orleans, LA
2016
- Co-chair with Louise Perrone, Intersection, Exhibition in Motion, Society for North American Goldsmiths conference, Asheville, NC
2013
- Co-curator with Amy Wong, Psychic Gold; Body + Object, Body = Object, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Select Public Lectures, Conversations and Podcasts
2023
(upcoming) Panel moderator, Steneby Konsthall, Steneby Sweden
(upcoming) title TBD, Steneby Konsthall, Steneby Sweden
-Sounds From the Studio Episode 10, Contemporary Craft
-Crafts Research – Now and in the Future , Panel Discussion, Refractions: Konstfack Research Week, Stockholm Sweden
2022
- Golden Spikes Won’t Pin Down Dragons Revisited
-Virginia Commonwealth University
-Massachusetts College of Art
-SUNY New Paltz State University of New York
-The Theory of Jewelry, Why do we love to wear it, and what does it mean? Jewelry Journey Podcast Part 1 & 2
-- "Jewelry: A Beautiful Problem": matt lambert discusses with Kelly Arnaoutaki for Athens Jewelry Week
2021
-Golden Spikes Won’t Pin Down Dragons Revisted,
-Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO), Oslo, Norway
-KOURU7, Lappeenranta Finland
- Seattle Metals Guild conference
-matt lambert in conversation with Jorge Manilla, N.3 Brazil Jewelry Week, online
2019
-Golden Spikes Won’t Pin Down Dragons
-Australia National University, Canberra, Australia
-Object Space, Auckland, New Zealand
-Columbus College of Art Graduate Studies, Columbus, Ohio
2018
- Complex Beings: Witness, Recognize, Fall Apart, KHIO, Oslo, Norway
- CAKE, collaborative lecture with Edward Cabral, Society for North American Goldsmiths conference, Portland, OR
-Contributor, Saying NO NO to Kantian Autonomy and Getting Jiggy with New Materialism , Norwegian Craft in
collaboration with Current Obsession, Lovelace Hotel, Munich Jewelry Week, 2018
-Possible Fringe: The Decorative and the Vulnerable (navigating masculinity through a queer personal narrative and the archive)
-Epic Failure, Material Topics Symposium, East Carolina University, NC, US
- Queering Space, Old Dominion University, Norfolk Virginia, U.S.
2017
- Possible Fringe: The Decorative and the Vulnerable (navigating masculinity through a queer personal narrative and the archive)
Gothenburg Academy of Design HDK, Gothenburg, Sweden
- In conversation with Catrin Lundqvist, IASPIS, Stockholm Sweden
2015
- “Ritual and the Impotent Adonis, An exploration of fetish, ritual and the presentation and preciousness of masculinity,” Estonian
Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
- Artist talk, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012
- “Revisiting the Village,” Mid-America College Art Association Conference, Hosted by Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- “It Takes A Village,” National Conference for Art in Healthcare, Hosted by Children’s Hospital, Detroit, MI
2011
- “Crafting Identity,” Undergraduate Research Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
